My Nonexistent Love Story/Skinny Love

#29: Rise before the fall

Most of the picture on the side are gifs, so click on them if you're interested. About the song .. I though it describes Jason's feelings in this chapter, though Estonian readers didn't exactly associated it with that chapter. Never mind, though ;)

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They always tell you, there's rise before the fall .. but they forget to mention, there's also the fall after the rise. Because they all want to hope for the best only.

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Work for school.

I chose especially something (cleaning the art class) where he would never go - I controlled even he wouldn't be there.

It's not like I didn't want to be with him, but .. well, I knew back then he'll understand something and it would only make him more suspicious.

I just didn't want to make our situation tenser than it was. We didn't even almost socialize and making him more suspicious wouldn't be the best idea.

When I signed myself up, he'd chosen moving the tables around the school.

When I signed myself up...

But when I entered the art a couple of weeks later, he was there and doodled something.

Oh, did I really dare to say doodle?!  He draws absolutely stunning pictures.

Anyway, the teacher wasn't around, so it was axiomatic - I guess it was? - to exchange at least some words.

"Art society?" I asked, fidgeting by the door.

I still hadn't got used to speaking to him. Ya know .. he's scared of talking to me and I'm scared of talking to him. It was easier in MSN, but the year was different. Something had changed.

If only I knew what exactly it was.

"Um, no," He added some lines to the picture. "Work for school."

I tried for my life to keep my mouth shut.

Pencil, which I was fiddling with, fell on the floor.

Jason looked at me, his brow raised.

I blushed slightly, hiding myself under the tablet to get the pencil back.

What the hell? What is he doing here? He was about to move the desks around... "Weren't you somewhere else? When I signed myself up, there was no one in the list aside from me..." I tried to sound as usual, believable.

I'm not sure whether I failed or not.

"Oh," he said recklessly, looking at his work again. "Some things came along. The only things were left were grooming the football field, cleaning the canteen or the art class,"

"I see," I drew circles on the table with my finger. "What are you drawing there, after all?"

"Come and look," he said with a sly smirk.

I raised my brow mentally. What would that smirk mean?

I walked unsteadily to his table.

"Wow," was all I could say. Firstly, because the wolf Jason had drawn was like a photo - it looked so real. And secondly .. his closeness sent lots of electricity through my body.

Jason smirked like a fox again. "Like what you see, huh?"

"It's amazing,"

"Ah, nothing special. Just everyday stupp,"