Never Looking Back
She's not with Puck anymore, their whole 'relationship' didn't last a week before she called it quits. Her baby fat is still there, but she's in the process of losing it, slowly but surely.
He's preparing to head off to Los Angles, and therefore is at the bookstore squinting over his list of books that he needs for the classes there.
She's there to pick up a diet book her mother had read about in some magazine.
She sees him first, a strand of brown hair falling over his face. He's standing in the aisle where her diet book is located (it took her twenty minutes to figure out the layout of the store herself- it wasn't like she was going to ask for help), reading over a slightly-crumpled list that is clenched down in his hand. At the sight of him, she ducks back into the next aisle, and tries to slow down her breathing, hand on her heart.
This summer is supposed to be about her, trying to get over her pregnancy. She doesn't need to see people that left her life a long long long time ago, with no hope of ever returning. It was hard enough to see Puck at the supermarket sometimes, hard enough to walk down the street and see Finn holding hands with Rachel. This summer was supposed to be about her, and nothing is going to ruin it. Not even the unexpected presence of one, Jesse st. James.
So she takes a deep breath and struts down that aisle like it's a catwalk and her baby fat has magically disappeared, eyes fixed on a spot on the walk and a hand on her left hip. She grabs the book, and flashes a stunning smile at him, before walking away.
Nothing can distract her from her goals.
Not even the dumbfounded gaze of Jesse st. James and the biting response to it that she thinks over in her head stops her from walking out of that store with the book in hand, and never looking back.
She was never going to look back.
I have no idea.
Seriously...
Like, what?
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