"Well, between the decorations and our earlier conversation, it wasn't a difficult conclusion to leap to," she explains before deciding to pivot away from this topic. The penguins made no sense, at least not in a soccer sense.

She moved to stand next to the desk, scanning the titles of the textbooks. Struggling in History class or no, these seemed far more advanced than a boy of his age might be reading. "Where are you currently in the course, time period-wise?"