"I felt a surge of dopamine, just when I saw you." Luke said as the girl, whose name we just got to know is Anna, was batting her eyelashes and giggling leaning on to the back of the tree seater just in front of us. Everyone looked at him confused so he explained" Dopamine is a chemical released in the brain that makes you feel good." Anna started giggling again finally understanding the pick-up line used on her.

"Oh thank you so much, I have always wondered how amazing and handsome you are, turns out you are so funny too, its like my ideal boyfriend." Anna said dreamily.

"I know why anyone would have a crush on Noah, but us? Either they are faking or they all need some serious eye checkups." Ben whispered in my ears as elbowed him to shut up.

Anna had always been after me since I became the basketball captain saying how it is culturally compulsory for us to date. But back then I was too awkward and had rejected her proposal, later I found out about her snobbish, rich and cheating behavior so I avoided every chance to interact with her.

And now when she came to me, I couldn't avoid her since we already said we'll give special treatment to camp members so I had to whisper beg Luke into entertaining her and make her go back to her seat. And Luke tried to do that but believe me it is coming out so lame.

Ben took out a water bottle from his backpack and started chugging down as Luke tried to come up with something to chase her away.

"I think we should take a nap too, it's going to be a long ride." said Noah and we all agreed. "And we seriously don't want much disturbance when we sleep, don't we?" Noah said this time looking at Anna, and thank God she got the hint and moved back to her seat.

"You sure you wanna drink all this water, we don't have any stop in the next two hours." Nathan reminded Ben who immediately lowered his bottle, making me snicker at him.

Suddenly Luke let out a small shriek, we all turned to him watching him as he pointed forward. We looked up to see Mr. Davis sleeping peacefully on Mr. Cruz's shoulder and Mr. Cruz sleeping with his head on Mr. Davis's sleeping head. We all nearly squealed watching that sweet moment. But Nathan remained silent.

"Come on it's not that big of a deal." Nathan said.

"I mean it is kinda cute." said Ben as Nathan tried reaching beyond Noah to beat Ben up. But thankfully Noah stopped him.

"Ok you dumb people, tried looking up. Everyone is sleeping om the shoulders of people next to them, lovers strangers or enemy alike." We all looked up to find that he was indeed right. Everyone visibly deflated but I looked at my teachers again and I can't help but feel that there was something different there, like the air was so comfortable. They both looked so at peace near each other as if sleeping in the comfort of their houses.

But I shrugged it off resting my head on Luke's shoulder who was reading his book of 'how to survive if lost in forest.' He gently patted my head as the motion of the bus pulled me in slumber.

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I woke up with a voice calling for me. I opened my eyes to see that we were on a stop and everyone was getting in and out of it. Ben was waiting for me to wake up and everyone else was already out so I also pulled myself up my feet and climbed out of the bus while trying to open my eyes but when I did get to open them I felt blown away by the view in front of me.

Mr. Cruz was smiling as he carried two plates of food and gently put down on the table in front of Mr. Davis. I pulled Ben and he gasped at the scene, immediately pulling out his phone to click pictures of the strange scene. Mr. Cruz sat opposite to Mr. Davis with his plate on the outdoor table of the small restaurant we stopped at.

I had to rub my eyes again as I saw Mr. Cruz laughing at some random undoubtfully bad joke Mr. Davis cracked. Ben had his phone on recording as Mr. Cruz happily talked and ate his fries away.

Ben sent them to the chat immediately and our friends came in no time, but Ben was still recording. We took the table with their clear view and could even hear the parts of their conversation.

"What do basketball players do when they could no longer see?" asked Mr. Davis to Mr. Cruz and we all everted our ears.

"They become referees." He answered himself laughing at his own joke loudly and what amazed me was Mr. Cruz who was also laughing at this joke. We all groaned, it was the worst lame joke I've ever heard. I like Mr. Davis a lot, but still I could not tolerate this, I wonder how Mr. Cruz could even laugh at this.

Mr. Davis finished his plate and was looking at Mr. Cruz's who smiled and pushed rest of his's to Mr. Davis who gave him a big smile with a sweet thanks and started eating the other plate too. To be honest, if he were to give me this big smile, I would have too given him my food, he really was the sweetest and the kindest person ever.

"Now what you want to say Nathan? Look around, can you see anyone who are laughing and giving their food like they are?" Noah asked smugly.

"Ya, they look like they are flirting." I interjected.

"They totally are flirting, I swear I've read this in the book '100 ways to flirt with your crush.' said Luke as we all looked at him with raised brows. He blushed and clarified himself. "Cut me some slack, I was just 10. OK?"

We all laughed at him and sat there looking at some actual nice flirting between our teachers, it was such a weird day, Luke's crappy flirting, even after reading a book to learn. And actual great flirting between Mr. Davis and Mr. Cruz.

Indeed very strange day, I wonder what the night would be like? Hopefully even more interesting.

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Hi,
I have a good news and a bad one
Good news is I didn't die... Ikr quite an achievement....
Bad news my schedule will be inconsistent for the next 10 more days till I can finally reach the safety of my home!!

Did you like Luke's flirting? And what about Mr. Davis and Mr. Cruz??

Do lemme know your thoughts.. Reading them fills colors to my boring life!!

Still connection deprived,
Ms. Day