It had been weeks, nearly a month, since I had last spoken to Jack. To be quite honest, nothing had really changed, saved for Jane constantly pleading for me to talk to him again. And I'd be lying and if I said that I slightly didn't miss his company. But I moved on, well, until Ianto and I started to pass notes in English
Why'd you stop talking to Jack? -I I thought for a moment, debating if I should answer Ianto's fair question.
Thought he wouldn't want me to. Those first two days were flukes. Figured it was better for me to step out of the way before I got hurt. -K I scrawled. He read it over and starting writing like mad, I had to admit his handwriting was pretty impressive when it got passed back to me.
If you want to be proven wrong (which you and I both know you do XD) meet in the fine arts hall for study hall. -I I was quite confused as to why he wanted me to meet there. Then I remembered that the entire school had study hall at the same town and the first seven minutes were used to go to other teachers. Perfect opportunity to get to that end of the universe. At least I had Phys Ed last period.
Fine, for shits and giggles XD -K I wrote back. Ianto grinned and quickly texted someone, I had to assume that it was Jack based on the grin. I chuckled and went back to my English work. When English finished up, I went to math and was greeted by Owen being hungover as hell. I sat in my seat next to him.
"Having fun there Owen?" I asked with a smirk. He groaned in response.
"Shut up…" He muttered. I laughed, earning another groan from him and started to complain about me being too loud. I put three Advil tablets on his desk. He looked at them and smiled in thanks. "So you gonna talk to Jack during study?" He asked. I nodded.
"Are you all in on it?" I asked with a chuckle.
"Yeah, kinda. It was Ianto and Jack's idea. Though also Gwen and Tosh. You really should trust us more sometimes." Owen said with a shrug. I chuckled.
"Yeah well as my friend Jane puts it I'm highly stubborn and too sarcastic for my own good." I said.
"Funny, Tosh says the same thing about me." Owen said. I laughed and we started to actually do our classwork. Class ended and we went down to lunch. Owen to High Tier, me to Jane and Drew. Though it was just Jane today.
"Hey girl, walked in with Owen again, you talking to him now but not Jack." She said.
"Well, actually. I'm not going to study hall. Jack asked, well more like Ianto asked if I'd meet him in the fine arts wing." I said. Jane squealed so loud that a couple of tables looked at the two of us weirdly.
"Are you serious? This is great! Your children are gonna look so good!" Jane said with a three finger grin.
"Chillax doll, I'm not gonna bang him at all. Not a thing that is going to happen." I said with glare. The bell rang. "I'm gonna head straight there, tell Ms. Jones I'm with Mr. Tennant." I said.
"Oh she'll love that," Jane said, winking at me and walking off. Everyone in the school knew Ms. Jones had a crush on both Mr. Tennant and Mr. Jones. They were twins and it was a bit odd since they were identical down to the chin. I jogged to the fine arts hallway where Jack was standing near the side door. I jogged down the hall as Jack pulled me into hug, spinning me around.
"I'm so happy you came Kir." He said hugging me tight. I smiled into his shoulder as he held me in midair.
"You can put me down you know. Your arms probably hurt." I said with a laugh.
"I kinda like you right here." Jack said and I could see the smirk on his face.
"Jack," I said.
"Kiran," he replied. He then sighed and gave in, setting me down, but still holding me.
"Hello," he said, grinning like a child on Christmas.
"Hi," I replied, "what brings me to this end of the world. What do you want to talk about?" I asked.
"I want to take you somewhere, hang on, lemme just get the keys." He said, walking to the theatre room. I followed behind him as he strode into the giant room. The desk was tucked in the corner and the man sitting at it had messy hair and a pinstripe suit.
"David, I need the keys." He said. The man looked up and his eyes looked wildly at Jack.
"What do you need the keys for, and it better not be shagging her." Mr. Tennant said with a slight heavy Scottish accent. I blushed heavily as Jack just chuckled.
"No sir, just need to fix some things in the light booth." He said. Mr. Tennant sighed and tossed Jack the keys.
"Give them back to me by the end of the period." He said, returning to his work, scrawling in a book again. Jack caught them and took my hand with a smirk on his lips and dragged me out of the room and into the auditorium. It was abnormally bright as the house lights were on. He continued to drag me into another room, up a flight of stairs and opened a locked door opening to a narrow room that overlooked the auditorium.
"Welcome to the light booth Kiran." Jack said with grin.
"Do you have a tendency to find high places or do they just sort of happen?" I replied, crawling under a desk and sitting in the window opening. Jack laughed and sat across from me.
"I like being able to see everything below." He said. I nodded and we sat in silence for the most part.
"Why'd you stop talking to me?" Was the question that was eventually asked. I figured that would be the topic of today's conversation.
"It's my inner skeptic thinking that you don't actually want any part of me, you just took pity on the sophomore with only two friends and they just so happen to be dating each other." I said looking at Jack, watching his face. I took some of his actual features of his face. Strong jawline, tousled brown hair that looked highly windswept, crystal blue eyes that you wanted to trust but a small corner of your mind told you not to, and a smile to make you go weak at the knees but an equally devilish smirk.
"Don't ever see yourself like that, not while I'm still alive." He said, taking the hand closest to mine. He rubbed his thumb over my knuckles, a gesture I was really comforted by. I smiled at him, to in return give me a grin that got me weirdly warm and fuzzy. We sat there in another comfortable silence, until I looked at my watch.
"It's almost time for us to go." I said. Jack looked at his watch and nodded. We both stood up and Jack pulled me into a hug, kissing my forehead when he did. I nearly melted but Jack let me go.
"Come on, before David accuses me of shagging you," he said with a smirk, dragging me out, but not before locking the door.
"Why are you on a first name basis with the Theatre teacher?" I asked.
"Because he hates being called Mr. Tennant, he thinks it makes him sound old. So he told us to call him David. I've been working on a nickname, but he's shot most of them down." Jack explained as he locked the auditorium, going into the classroom and throwing David the keys back.
"Thanks David." Jack said. David just nodded as Jack grabbed his bag and took my arm. "Where're you headed?" He asked, looking down at me a bit.
"Phys Ed." I groaned. The only good part of that class was I got to see Jane and talk to her all period as we avoided physical exercise. Jack chuckled at my misfortune as the bell rang. Again, I found myself walking to class on the arm of Jack Harkness. I arrived with Jane already there. Jack hugged me one more time and kissed my forehead, but you couldn't notice.
"Text me later Kir," he commented before strolling out, but not without yelling over his shoulder "See ya in hell." I turned to Jane, blushing like mad. Jane was standing there opened mouthed.
"Close your mouth, the flies will get in." I said with a chuckle. Jane looked at me like I had grown a second head.
"Did that seriously just happen? Did my little black death angel walk in on the arm of Captain Flirt and is blushing about it?! Kiran Ann Weston, be honest, do you have a crush on Jack Harkness?" She asked, completely blowing everything out of the water.
"What? Why would I-"
"Because he's the only person I know that can make you blush. And that is quite a feat." She said as the teacher ordered us to go change out. We started to walk to the locker room and Jane kept pointing out facts that proved that I, Kiran Ann Weston did have a crush on Jack Harkness. I looked at Jane.
"Oh fuck, I do. But exactly how do you crush?" I asked. Jane looked at me.
"Girl, this is gonna take a while."
A/N: Hey guys! This is probably going to be my last back to back chapter update, standardized testing is upon us and I will be hella busy. Plus, can't be having you get too spoiled, now can I? XD see ya in Hell.