Tally doesn't usually go on hikes or day trips with the rest of her classmates, but with everyone going on this particular trip, she'd just had to tag along. But halfway through the hike she'd found herself too fatigued to continue - not unexpected, but a little disappointing. All the best gossip happens on the hike to camp. Obviously.

So she'd had to stop for awhile to recoup, and Mr. Covington had stayed behind to walk with her. Tally's kind of a kiss-ass and like spending time with the teachers already, but this had been a particular juicy opportunity, since the groundskeeper is the subject of her latest flight of fancy, teacher-romance wise. Asking about fertilizer might not be as romantic as a lively discussion about Star Trek (there's a sliding scale), but it's still enough to ping her radar.

And, okay, she didn't really get any information out of him. But it's still gossip worthy. So she's holding court here with a small group of sophomores. Very quietly. Because Mr. Covington is making them hot cocoa.

"Guess what I know," she sing-songs after their previous topic of conversation dies out, ushering everyone even closer to her.

[Open to sophomores!]