47 Chapter 47: Mariana, Part 2

"Mari, look at me," I hear him say through the fog I seem to have fallen into. He grabs my hand. "Mariana, I already went to my professor and asked to be assigned to another study partner."

"What?" The fog starts to lift enough to hear what he's saying.

"I didn't appreciate her proposition, so I went to my professor and asked to be reassigned to another partner."

"What… what did she say?"

He continues to rub my hand gently with his thumb. "She said she didn't like doing it. That the whole point of it was to learn how to get along with a teaching partner. So I explained a little bit about what happened and she agreed to reassign me. Said that I did the right thing telling her, because in a school environment the first person I should tell is my principal to keep something like this from getting out of hand."

I nod, still shocked by this turn of events. "So who is your new partner?"

"Her name is Jerry."

"Her?"