'drowning' drabble

Title: Lack of Crowds
Word Count: ~550
Prompt: drowning
Summary: Sometimes being late for class means getting the seat you wanted anyway.

People are scuffling out of their seats, making beelines for the exits.  We’ve just been dismissed for our usual mid-lecture break.  I’m scribbling the last of my notes when her voice prods my attention off the page.  Don’t ask me how the aisle seat next to her was still free when I sliced into class a couple minutes late, hair still wet as I dropped my paper into the box.

“Did you surf this morning, Ian?” 

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