Responsible

I know her.
I know the heavy backpack, the busy hands, the focused eyes,
I know the bright computer, the completed worksheets, the slight smile when
She gets her tests back.
I see her.
Free period, books around her, the worksheet for next class ready to be done.
A charging cord plugged into her computer.
I tell her,
Never seen you charge your computer before.
She tells me,
Yeah, I forgot to charge it last night.
She wakes up at 5:30 to make lunch, coffee, and tea for her family.
She works through all her breaks to get all her assignments done.
She takes three honors classes, two of them sciences.
She has all her colleges planned out in lists of twenty.
She watches history videos in her free time.
She is Responsible.
I tell her,
That’s odd, have you ever done that before?
Nope, she tells me,
Smiling,
It was nice.