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"This is a huge mistake, I'm sorry if I led you on". Jen couldn't believe she had let these words escape her mouth; Tilly stood watching eyes filling with tears.
"If? Do not pretend there is nothing going on between us!"Tilly replied in a stern voice hoping that Jen wasn't serious.
"Well there isn't any more okay? Whatever it was its over!" Jen slightly raising her voice showing Tilly this wasn't a joke. Tilly's eyes immediately filled with tears her heart shattering into a million pieces. Jen was the only one who could make her feel like this and now Jen had ended it, it felt like her whole world had came crashing down.
Realizing what she had just done, Jens eyes started to water. Jen was never the kind of person to let her feelings show but with what she had just told Tilly, it broke her heart as much as it had done Tilly's.
Tilly had had enough; she picked up her coat and stormed out of the classroom. Tilly had seen this coming she knew it was going to end badly but she refused to believe that Jen would do this again!
Jen cupped her face in her hand, not knowing what to do next; it obviously wouldn't look to good a teacher chasing after a crying student just after the eruption of rumors about Jen and Tilly being an item she couldn't afford to raise any more suspicion.
Jen still had feelings for Tilly, this she knew for sure, but with her being Tilly's teacher she could see this going badly for both teacher and student. Tilly had basically secured her place at Cambridge for next year, she was a straight A student who hadn't missed a day of school, if this got out not only would Jen be arrested she could lose her placement and would have no hope of getting a teaching job in the future, Tilly's chances of going to any university would be shattered.
Jen clearly couldn't deny the fact she had fell for Tilly, this was evident. Jen was the kind of person who would over think every situation, she had analyzed that day they had spent at Crosby beach, how Tilly looked at her, Tilly was clearly smitten, Jen didn't usually believe in love at first sight but from that day they had met at the art exhibition in college coffee, Jen felt an instant connection with the red –head. She found it hard to explain how such a connection could come so quickly, how even though they had just met it felt like they had known each other for years.
Tilly rushed passed Maddie and Ruby with tears streaming down her face, this feeing she had was killing her on the inside, she had to at least attempt to hide it, at least in school she couldn't raise suspicion, one minute she was part of the unbelievable rumor of her and Miss Gilmore's secret relationship and next thing you know she's pushing past her best friend on the stairs, tears pouring from her eyes.
Maddie and Ruby had been talking on the stairs, obviously Maddie had heard the rumors she was the 'queen bee' of sixth form, but being Tilly's closest friend she refused to believe this, Tilly would have told her if anything was going on, Tilly never kept secrets from her it wasn't like her.
After listening to Ruby make a snide comment on how Tilly was crying cause her and Miss Gilmore were having a 'lovers tiff', Maddie had told Ruby that the rumor wasn't true and told her not to be so childish, that she wasn't in the school playground anymore. Just as Maddie had put it right with Ruby Miss Gilmore came rushing past them on the stairs, she seemed to be in a world of her own not paying attention to any of the students she passed, Maddie looked at Ruby to find Ruby had an 'I told you so' look on her face. Even at this Maddie had refused to believe idol adolescent gossip and left Ruby to go find Tilly.
Bursting into the girls toilets Maddie found Tilly looking into the mirror drying her eyes with paper towels, this didn't help at all the coarse paper was making her eyes all red and puffy. Maddie saw the tears making their way down the red-heads cheeks and fall onto the crease of her lips.
"Babe, what's wrong?" said Maddie in a soft tone hoping not to scare Tilly away.
"Nothing, think I got dust in my eye while being in the art room the place is full of it" Tilly didn't want Maddie to know the truth, it wasn't the time nor the place to confirm the rumors that were quickly circulating the college.
After drying her eyes Maddie gave Tilly a tight hug and asked her did she want to grab a coffee after college. Tilly didn't really feel like it, knowing Jen goes there every day after college for her usual caffeine fix. Tilly couldn't bear to see Jen so soon after the break up. But Maddie was her friend so she agreed to meet her after college. It killed Tilly not being able to discuss with her best friend how she felt and how Jen so heartlessly told her it was over.
College had ended, Tilly felt relief she didn't have to deal with the rumors anymore, the sniggers and whispering had really got to her, to the rest of the students this was just a big joke stupid rumors like this circulated all the time there was no need for panic, she didn't see why Jen had over reacted gossip was all part of being a sixth form student it was something Tilly had gotten used to, but obviously Jen didn't think this. It annoyed Jen how Tilly was so clam about this situation if any of the other teachers or the head picked up on this it could destroy her career as a teacher, the thing she had worked hard for, gone in a flash!
Tilly was walking through the village; her mind was in a completely different place thinking of Jen, she realized that even though Jen was the only thing that mattered to her at this point in time, she need to rid her mind of all Jen related thoughts. She knew it was going to be hard but it was the only way she could move on and forget the incredibly rubbish day she had just experienced. Tilly was soon shuck out of her daydream when she heard her phone beep in her bag.