Gemotions

He’d done it! Liam, a quiet kid who usually buried himself in textbooks, started grinning. Mr. Davies, the history teacher with the perpetually furrowed brow, had begun to follow him on Twitter.

Liam scrambled to his laptop, clicking through his feed with rapid finger movements. He re-read his recent tweets. The ones about the Civil War? Yes, he'd tweeted facts he'd painstakingly researched.

A sudden, giddy impulse made him want to burst out laughing. He shot a text to his friend, Sam, a string of exclamation points punctuating every word. He felt as if he could fly.