" Dr." Dr. Blake smiled and a couple of the students laughed at this. Blake nodded at Mitchell in approval. "Very good answer, Mitchell. Good use of the imagination," he complimented. "Now, class, do you agree with his physical description?" The guys in the class nodded. Some murmured a "yes." "And I guess your personality is something we'll have to judge later. Okay, Mitchell, sit down. Who's next?" Mitchell sat down, satisfied with his presentation. He sat through two more people before one who intrigued him got up in front of the class. He was about Mitchell's size, and he was cute in a scholarly way. He wore brown round tortoise shell glasses over brown eyes. He had short brown hair that had small curls and waves to it on top. "My name is Alec Ralac," he began. Mitchell noticed that Alec's hands shook slightly as he held the paper before him to read. Alec had long thin fingers with tiny, almost invisible, brown hairs growing between the first and second knuckle. "I am six feet tall with short brown hair and hazel eyes. I wear glasses, but sometimes I'll wear contacts. You'll think I'm kind of shy," here Alec paused to titter nervously. "But if you get to know me, I can be pretty outgoing. I write some pretty morbid and depressing stuff, but that doesn't necessarily reflect who I really am. And the power I would like to have is the power to end bigotry." Dr. Blake nodded. "Good power. Yes, I think all of us in this room would like that ability." The rest of the class was as unpredictable and fun as the beginning had been. Blake released them with an assignment to write four poems for the next class period. "Hey, Alec," Mitchell called out after him as they left the classroom. "Yeah?" he asked, turning. "Do you have another class now?" he asked. "No." "Would you like to go to lunch with me?" "Sure." They headed off together to the cafeteria. Their lunch extended into an hour as they spoke on any number of topics that they found they had in common. They spoke of their passion for writing, their common major, and their similar pet peeves about the world like racism, and hate crimes against people because of their color, religion, or sexual orientation. Mitchell was really glad to find out that Alec was liberal minded. |