After thirty minutes, I had made my way towards my dorm and then decided to trace my way to the school building from there.

I had walked past Connor's dorm, and I stopped myself before I walked any farther away from him. I face the door and knock on it.

"Who is it?" I hear someone say from inside.

I do not answer, in case it is Connor. I know he does not want to see me.

"Fine then," the guy says from inside. "Be mysterious."

The door opens, and I am face to face with Tyler. My hopes go down, and I doubt I will not be able to find Connor until later tonight.

"Aren't you supposed to be in class?" I ask him.

"Aren't you?" he mimics back at me.

"My teacher is sick," I answer. "They just cancelled the class."

"My teacher never showed up," Tyler says shrugging his shoulders. "Look, I'm kind of in here with Britt, so...."

"Oh," I say, looking into his dorm and seeing Britt lying down on one of the beds. "Do you know where Connor is?"

"Connor?" he asks me. "I don't know, you are with him all the time you should know."

Ouch, okay someone is in a bad mood. "I actually don't know where he is, so thanks for the help."

I walk away from him and down the hall. I hear the door slam, which causes me to jump. Who put him in such a bad mood? I just wanted to know if he knew where Connor went.

I keep walking down the hallway, and see someone wearing the same outfit as Connor today. The person turns around and it is Connor.

He starts running and rounds a corner. "Connor!" I yell after him. This is not happening again. I rest my hand against the cold wall and take off my shoes and start running after him.

I start catching up with him, and he looks back at me at one point. "What are you doing?" I yell at him.

"Just please stop!" he yells back at me.

"If I don't know what I'm doing," I reply. "Then I don't know what to stop."

"Just stay away from me," he replies breathlessly as he rounds another corner.

When I round the corner, I bump hard into someone and we both fall hard on the ground. I look up and see Melissa. She gives me a glare.

"I'm so sorry," I say as I look over her shoulder. I see Connor go through a door. Looking down, I see I knocked some papers out of her hands, and being the nice person I am, I start helping her collect the papers.

Now I have no chance of finding Connor again.

I stand up and help Melissa and apologize to her once more before running towards the door that Connor went through. I place my hand on the cold metal knob and twist it to reveal all kinds of different hallways.

Yeah, I'm definitely not going to be finding him anytime soon.

I close the door and still she Melissa brushing her skirt with her hand, and I walk up to her.

"Hey," I start. "Can you help me find my next class?" I give her the name of my teacher and the class.

"Sure," she replies. "It is really close to my class, let's go."

We start walking down the hallways in silence and my mind starts to wonder why Connor has been acting the way he acted after he kissed me.

The day went by kind of fast, and I had never seen any sign of Connor. I had never had any classes with him, but I had never seen him in the hallway at all. At lunch, when I asked Bryce about it he said he has not seen Connor since this morning.

"So are Britt and Tyler serious?" I ask Damian as Bryce, him, and I walk towards the dorms after our last class.

"They have been dating for a couple of months," he replies shrugging his shoulders. "I have only talked to her twice."

"Probably because Tyler cannot keep his lips off of hers," I mumble.

Damian laughs and says, "I heard that."

"Why are you asking anyway?" Bryce asks joining into our conversation.

"I was just wondering," I respond. "They are just always together it seems like. Breakfast, lunch, and I bet they are probably together right now."

"How much are we betting?" Damian asks raising his eyebrows.

"I'll bet you ten bucks," I say sticking out my hand.

"Deal," he says shaking my hand. "I'll call him right now."

He pulls out his phone and puts it on speaker phone so that we can all hear him. It rings a couple of times before Tyler picks up.

"What do you want?" he snaps as he answers the phone.

"Well hello to you too," Damian says in a sweet tone, unlike Tyler's.

"I'm kind of busy right now," Tyler says. "So hurry up."

"Are you with Britt right now?" he asks.

"Yeah we are getting some ice cream," Tyler responds. "Why?"

"Ha!" I say pointing my finger into Damian's face. "I told you so."

"What?" Tyler asks. "Who is that?"

"It's Haley," Damian responds. "And I also just lost a bet."

"Whatever," Tyler responds. "I'm hanging up."

The line goes dead with a beep and Damian sticks his phone back into his pocket while he gives me a glare. I shrug my shoulders at him.

"I swear," Bryce says. "I don't think I haven't seen him without Britt on his side."

"That's probably true," Damian says. "It's none of my business though. Where's Connor?"

"Who knows," I respond rolling my eyes. "He kind of ditched me at breakfast and I have not seen him since."

"Well, I guess it is just us three for dinner tonight," Bryce says as he adjusts the strap of his backpack.

"I'm going to have to raincheck," I tell him. "I got homework."

Is it true that I have homework, yes, but I just don't really want to go out with just Damian and Bryce. Homework was the best excuse in my opinion.

"Okay," Damian and Bryce say as they keep walking.

"I'm going to go get a coffee," I say as I start walking in another direction as them. "I'll catch up with you guys later."

They say bye and I walk to the place that Connor and I went this morning and I order an iced coffee and a cheese Danish to have on the way back to my dorm.

I walk out of the store and I see Tyler walking by down the path. He stops when he sees me and gives me a wave.

For once, there is no Britt attached to him.

I walk down towards him and he asks how I am doing. I tell him good and we both keep walking in silence.

"Can I show you something?" Tyler asks as he stops walking and stands in front of me.

"Um what?"  I respond with a mouthful of cheese Danish.

"Just follow me," he says as he starts walking off of the path and in the grass. I look around to see if any people are around because I'm not sure what Tyler is going to show me. No people around.

I start walking behind him and he takes a seat on the ground right near the edge of the river that runs around the school.

"Okay," he starts. "Don't get freaked out."

"What?" I ask, still with a mouthful of food.

He starts making a clicking noise with his mouth and I watch him in confusion. The water starts making ripples and I look around waiting for some water monster to come out.

A little brown furry thing comes out of the water and towards Tyler.

"Is that a beaver?" I ask, looking at the thing in shock.

"Yeah," he replies as he sticks his hand out towards the animal. It sniffs his hand and he starts to pet it. "I have wanted to show this to someone for a while."

"How long have you known it was here?" I ask him.

"I found her last year wandering around in the grass early one morning," he starts to explain. "It took her a while to get used to me, but she did."

The beaver looks over at me and gives me a look. I give it a smile and its nose starts smelling in the air towards me.

"You want some of my cheese Danish?" I ask as I start to break off a piece of it and stick it out towards her.

She sniffs it and then eats it out of my hand.

"She already likes you," Tyler says.