The bus had almost at Rose her house and she had to get out. ''I have to get out here.'' Rose said to Jack.
Jack looked at her and then out of the window to her house. ''Oh...okay. Uh...I guess I'll see you at school then.'' He smiled.
Rose nodded and stood up. She walked to the door of the bus when Jack shouted her name. ''Rose! Wait!''
Rose turned around and saw that Jack was walking towards her. They walked out of the bus together and looked at each other while the bus rode away. ''Do you live here as well?'' Rose asked.
''No, no. I don't. I uh...I actually wanted to ask you something.'' He scratched the back of his neck with his hand.
Rose nodded, waiting for him to go on.
Jack looked her in her eyes and started talking. ''I wondered if maybe you want to do that history project with me?'' He asked hopefully.
Rose hadn't expected this at all. ''Really? Don't you have someone else to do it with.'' As soon as she said that she heard how wrong that came out. ''I...I didn't mean that in a bad way or something.'' Her face went red.
Jack shook his head. ''Don't worry.'' He smiled a little bit. ''But no, Ryan paired up with Tom and Emma and Alicia are doing it together, so I guess I have nobody.'' He said, but he wasn't done, yet. ''And I thought that maybe if you want to and if you don't already have someone that maybe we could be a pair?''
Rose nodded. ''There is actually no one that I know really well from history class, so no, I don't have anyone. I would like it if we could be a pair.'' Rose smiled.
Jack smiled and came closer to give her kiss on her cheek. ''Thank you. I'll see you tomorrow in class then, right?''
Rose was taken of card by that kiss. ''Ri...Right.''
''Bye.'' Jack said, and then he was gone.
Rose kept starring at the place Jack had been standing just a few seconds ago. She placed her hand on the place Jack had kissed her and sighed. Today was a wonderful day.
She walked to her house and got inside. ''Mother, I'm home!'' Rose yelled.
Ruth came out of the living room. ''Hello honey, how was school? Kelly made a cup of tea for you.'' Kelly was their cleaner.
''It was okay, I'll be there in a minute.''
Ruth nodded and went back into the living room.
Rose brought her purse with her books to her bedroom and walked downstairs to her mother. ''What did you do today?'' Ruth asked Rose.
''Not that much, we have to make an history project. I think it's going to be fun.'' Rose didn't tell her mother that she paired up with Jack. She just thought that if she would tell her that she was going to do it with Jack, her mother would be asking her a lot of question about him and since she didn't really knew him, she couldn't answer them.
''Okay, that sounds not that bad. Do you have any homework?'' Ruth asked.
''Yes, I'm going to make that right now, so if you need me, I'm up in my bedroom.''
Ruth nodded. ''I know where to find you.''
Rose walked away and went up to her bedroom. She couldn't really concentrate on her homework. The only thing she could think of was Jack. He actually was even nicer than Rose thought he would be. After thinking about Jack for a good hour, she decided it was time to really make some homework now. She thought it would be wise to begin with ideas for the project already.
Rose had been busy with that for a couple of hours. After dinner Rose went up to her room again and she was getting ready for bed. She could actually say that she was excited for school the next day. She hoped that Jack was as well and that he liked her and that they could grow closer together while they were busy with the project.