"No way! I abandoned him!" Hayden glared at Daniel, before grabbing his plate to leave because he didn't want to have lunch with him any longer.
Daniel immediately grabbed onto Hayden's jacket. "I'm sorry, Hayden. I- There's a little girl in my neighborhood and her father abandoned her, so now she stays with her mother."
One could tell if someone had good or bad intentions from expressions alone; Daniel was insensitive, but not a bad person, so Hayden sat back down.
"I've made you mad again, Hayden." Daniel took the drumstick on his plate and placed it onto Hayden's. "I didn't do that on purpose. My dad is really nice to me, so I just wanted you to have a dad who takes care of you as well."
"I don't need it!" Hayden stared at the chicken drumstick coldly.
"Why don't you need your dad? Isn’t it a good thing to have one more person to look after you?" Daniel looked at him in confusion.
"I don't need your drumstick!" Hayden held onto his plate and moved it away. "It's insanitary!"
Daniel immediately took the drumstick back. "Even though you act like you don't like me all the time, I still like being friends with you, Hayden. If only there were two spots for the contest, we would be able to go together."
Hayden scowled. "It's not confirmed that I will lose!"
"But your results for the semester exam were below mine and I came first in the class," Daniel said as he took a bite of the drumstick. "Of course, I will congratulate you if you become better than me, too. We are good friends after all."
"You are definitely going to cry if I surpass you," Hayden said sarcastically, "I am not holding back even if you cry."
Daniel hummed in disbelief that Hayden would surpass him and said, "it's been a while since your sister came to pick you up from school, Hayden, is she starting elementary school as well?"
"Are you friends with me just so that you can see my sister?"
Daniel flushed. "No! I..."
In Elliot's house, he went back for a shower ;h(
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