This was great. Yeah, Military History. She laughed, a golden tinkling noise like wind chimes in a gentle breeze. You're acting as if nobody ever paid any attention to you before. Zach looked down at his feet.
Nobody ever has, before.
He said quietly. This brilliant guy, she could see beyond the bruised and scarred exterior to the person inside, was so downtrodden, as she'd heard, that he had a wall built up around him. She was determined to break through. She liked this shy, unassuming fellow student. Zach nodded, and to his surprise, as they walked towards the library, she took him arm and walked beside him like some of the much more popular guys had their girls hanging off them. . . .