Authors Note: Sorry for the delay in updating, and sorry again if you follow Life As We Know It. But I only have 4 days of class and 4 days of exams left so I will be free to write soon. Thank you for reading and sticking with this story!
"Hello Darling" Helena said, causing Myka to jump slightly away from her locker.
"Oh my god, Helena. You scared me." Myka said, putting a book down in her locker and looking back up.
"Sorry, I just wanted to make sure you were okay? You ran off rather quickly during lunch, and didn't speak to me in any of the classes we had together this afternoon. Did I do something wrong?" Helena asked, taking a step closer.
"No, you didn't do anything wrong. It's just me, being well…me. I've just got a lot on my mind, that's all." Myka stuttered out.
"Are you sure, you looked rather distraught when you left the lunch room." Helena pried.
"I'm fine, I promise." Myka said, with a slight nod of her head.
"Well then, now that that's settled. What are you doing this afternoon?" Helena asked with a smile.
"Um…nothing…why?" Myka asked suspiciously.
"Because I was hoping you would accompany me for a cup of coffee, or tea." Helena asked.
"Seriously?" Myka wondered, taken aback by her forwardness.
"Why wouldn't I be serious?" Helena asked, confused.
"People usually ignore me, let alone want to go get coffee." Myka admitted a bit sheepishly.
"Well, that's a shame now isn't it? You seem like a very lovely person and I cannot imagine anyone not wanting to know you." Helena said sweetly.
"Well not everyone see's it that way…" Myka said, trailing off as she shut her locker.
"Well then I must insist that you join me this afternoon then." Helena said, walking in stride next to Myka, who had starting walking toward the exit of the school.
"And where did you want to get coffee?" Myka said, stopping and turning toward Helena.
"Well there is a Cafe downtown that is positively delightful and it has the best apple pie." Helena told her with a smile.
"How American of you.." Myka laughed.
"Well, I will take that as a yes, now follow me, I have a vehicle here." Helena said, leading Myka out the door.
"You have your drivers license?" Myka asked.
"Yes, just recently actually…" Helena explained as she walked through the parking lot to her black ford escape.
"Wow, nice car…" Myka said absentmindedly as she opened up the passenger seat and buckled up.
"Well, my parents bought it for me after I got my drivers license." Helena told her as she started up the engine and pulled out of the parking lot.
"Wow, you really are rich." Myka huffed.
"Did we not talk about his before? My parents wealth is not what defines me." Helena said in a fake upset tone, that sounded very rehearsed.
"Fine…Fine…" Myka said.
"So Myka, do you have a job?" Helena asked, trying to continue the conversation as they drove.
"Kinda…I work at my parents book shop after school and on the weekends." Myka told her.
"Does your father pay you for this work?" Helena asked.
"Yeah, but he just give us an allowance so he doesn't have to technically hire us." Myka explained.
"Us?"
"My sister Tracy and I." Myka said.
"Ah, you have a sister? Is she older or younger?" Helena asked.
"She's a year younger, she's a freshman this year. You've probably seen her in the hall…Always wearing pink, straight hair, the color of mine…pretty, she's always being followed around by people. She's pretty popular." Myka said.
"Well, I can't imagine that she's prettier than you." Helena said smoothly as she pulled into the parking lot of the cafe.
"Thanks…I think." Myka said, taken aback by the sudden compliment.
"You really need to learn how to accept a compliment Darling." Helena said as she got out of the car, Myka doing the same.
"I'm not used to getting compliments, sorry." Myka said, ducking her head and walking into the cafe.
"Then, I will do my best to compliment you vigorously." Helena said, raising her eyebrow as they walked up to the register.
Once they had ordered their respective tea and coffee they found a seat near the window and sat down.
"So Helena, what's the real reason you asked me here?" Myka asked suspiciously.
"Whatever do you mean?" Helena asked with a furrowed brow.
"I know it's not because you actually like me, so what do you want?" Myka said bluntly.
"And why would you think I didn't like you?" Helena wondered.
"People don't just like me after meeting me a few hours ago. And the only time people want to do something with me who aren't Pete, or the rest of the people from lunch they usually just want one of two things; Tutoring or my sisters number." Myka explained, leaning back in her chair as the barista came by with their drinks.
Helena let out a puff before saying: "Well I can assure you I am not in need of a tutor, nor am I seeking your sisters number."
"Then why are we here?" Myka asked, picking up her coffee cup.
"Why won't you believe that I actually want to spend time with you?" Helena sighed.
"Because I told you! People only want to spend time with me if they want something. I'm not the easiest person to be around anymore." Myka said angrily.
"Myka! I can assure you that I want nothing more than a friendship out of you! I am not looking for tutoring or your sisters number. And frankly you seem like a lovely person and besides the fact that all you have been doing is self deprecating yourself, you seem to be very easy to be around." Helena conveyed.
"Oh…" Myka said sheepishly, staring intently into her coffee.
"Myka are you alright? I can tell that something is really bothering you, and if you need someone to talk to you can talk to me." Helena said softly, leaning towards Myka.
"Yeah, well you probably wouldn't get it…no one does." Myka mumbled, not looking up.
"Myka…look at me…" Helena pleaded.
Myka hesitantly looked up from the cup and was greeted with eyes that shone with nothing but care and compassion. Eye's that she'd only seen for the first time that very morning but some how seemed connected too from the second they met.
"I'm sorry Helena, this was a mistake, I'm gonna go home. I have homework to do." Myka said, fighting back tears as she stood up and left the coffee shop.
Helena sat back in her chair, at a loss for words as she mindlessly sipped her tea trying to figure out what the hell she had don to make Myka run off like that.
"Hey Mykes! Did you have fun on your date with Helena last night?" Pete mocked as he approached her on their walk to school.
"What? It wasn't a date, and I only stayed for like two minutes then I left." Myka snapped at him.
"Whoa there, chill dude. It was a joke…why didn't you stay?" Pete asked.
"I just didn't feel like it. She probably wanted something anyways…" Myka said quietly as she sped up.
"Dude, she didn't want anything…" Pete assured her as he jogged to catch up.
"How would you know?" Myka snipped.
"Because she asked me a whole bunch of questions so she could ask you someplace you'd like." Pete admitted.
"Yeah, so she could get something out of me."
"Myka, the world isn't out to get you and Helena Wells certainly isn't…well she wants to get you, just not in the bad kind of way." Pete rambled.
"What?" Myka asked, confusion evident through her features.
"She likes you…" Pete said in a sing-song voice.
"What does that even mean?" Myka asked.
"She likes, likes you." Pete tried to clarify.
"Oh come on Pete, I'm not gay. Besides even if I was I would stand no chance with her." Myka scoffed as she quickened her pace again.
"Okay one…you don't necessarily have to be gay to like someone of the same gender, and two…you would totally stand a chance because she's totally into you." Pete told her with a smirk.
"Pete, we met yesterday, she doesn't know anything about me." Myka reasoned.
"She knows you're hot, smart and you like to read." Pete pointed out.
"And she knows that I'm crazy and paranoid and I ran off on her yesterday for absolutely no reason." Myka said, covering her face with her hands.
"Well you could apologize and then ask her to go get coffee with you tonight. And promise her you won't run off." Pete suggested.
"But Pete…." Myka whined.
"But nothing Mykes, just go up to her and apologize and hope she still wants to talk to you." Pete said.
"Well, she probably thinks I'm a freak now, and with my luck she'll never speak to me again." Myka grumbled as they approached the rest of their friends.
"Well you won't know until you try." Pete said.
"Try what?" Claudia asked, over hearing the last part of their conversation as they continued walking to school.
"Tries asking HG out." Pete added in.
"Pete!" Myka nearly shrieked as she punched Pete hard on the arm.
"Yo dude! That's cool! HG's super hot, score for Myka!" Claudia encouraged as she laughed slightly at Pete pouted.
"I am not asking her out." Myka said defiantly.
"Then what are you doing?" Steve asked.
"I'm gonna ask her to get coffee with me since I ran out on her yesterday." Myka explained.
"Why did you run out?" Abigail wondered.
"Because I am a complete idiot that's why." Myka grumbled.
"So you're going on a non-date with HG if she doesn't think you're a lunatic." Claudia asked, trying to clarify.
"Yes." Myka responded.
"Don't do that thing where you remember every detail about something, it freaks people out." Pete told her.
"Pete I am not going to dumb myself down to make some one like me." Myka dead panned.
"That's not what I meant and you know it. Just don't flaunt your crazy memory and freak her out." Pete explained.
"I don't think it'll freak her out…at least not more then I already did yesterday." Myka said, rolling her eyes.
"What exactly did you do yesterday?" Steve asked her.
"Well I sort of accused her of wanting either tutoring or my sisters number then went all spazzy and left." Myka told him.
"And why'd you do that?" Abigail asked.
"I don't know…I'm not used to people talking to me other than you guys…" Myka admitted.
"Well did it ever occur to you that you're awesome and other people may want to know you too…" Claudia suggested.
"Well…no…" Myka trailed off as they entered the school.
"Well you are, so talk to the chick." Claudia said before they all parted ways to their separate lockers.
"Hello again." The crisp accent hit Myka's ears.
"Hi, Helena." Myka said quietly.
"You ran off rather quickly yesterday." Helena said, nearly repeating their conversation from the previous day.
"About that…I'm sorry…I was just being paranoid and stupid and I'm sorry, I shouldn't have run off like that." Myka apologized.
"No worries Darling, I take no offense, although I was a bit worried." Helena admitted.
"Well I was hoping you would accept my apology and agree to try again after school." Myka said quickly.
"I would be delighted, would you like to go back to the same place or try some where new." Helena asked her.
"You can pick."
"There is another cafe downtown, a few blocks away from the one we were at yesterday that is a used bookshop as well. I'm not sure if you want to go there seeing as though your parents own a book store. But I am fairly certain that you would like it. There isn't a lot of people there usually, and it's surrounded by books." Helena explained sweetly, smiling at Myka from behind her dark lashes.
"I think It'll be fine as long as I don't buy any books from them…" Myka said sarcastically.
"Then It's settled, we shall go there then. Will I see you at lunch?" Helena asked hopefully after Myka had shut her locker.
"Yeah, Um, could you do me a favor though…" Myka trailed off, losing courage.
"Anything." Helena said sincerely.
"Could you maybe not sit in the seat you sat in yesterday, it's just…" Myka said, stopping herself.
"Say no more, I will choose a different chair, I'll see you at lunch." Helena said before giving Myka one last smile and sauntering off.
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