João blinked at the professor. He surely heard it wrong? Surely. Or else, why should she make them all noticeable and want them in front of the whole class? Yeah. He heard her wrong--

But Aspen and Paulie were moving already. He looked at them in wonder. So he had to move too? Why were they accepting the situation? Couldn't they ignore it?

Apparently not.

Sighing to himself, he hated the professor for a moment for summoning them in front of the class as if they were bad behaving children, and he looked around to see if someone laughed at them. They'd BETTER not! His eyes fell on Delilah and he tried to smile at her, but he was too angry to smile properly. She would hopefully understand.

Walking out of the line at last, he didn't look at anyone else and stood a little distanced from the professor, at the opposite side of her from Aspen.