A/N: Thanks to all that read and reviewed! You all get cyber cake!
Picking up the girl's books had been useless, because the second Jasper sees her face he grabs her wrists, causing them to spill to the floor yet again. The thuds of them hitting the ground causes an echo to sound through the quiet corridor.
The girl just stares at him.
A second feels like eternity as Jasper stares right back at her. His eyes rake over the girl. She is about the same height, with the same body shape. Her short ebony hair sticks up every which way in a manner slightly messier than Alice's, yet it is so very similar… and her large lovely eyes…
They are green.
This realization quickly brings Jasper back to his senses. He quickly lets go of the girl's childlike wrists and jumps back from her as if she had shocked him.
"I'm sorry," he murmurs softly, willing the girl's mood to become less tense.
The girl doesn't say anything to him; she just looks up at him wearily.
Jasper suddenly feels awkward. He kneels down to pick up her books at human speed and rises up again to hand them to her.
She takes them in her arms, but her eyes are now searching his, looking for some sort of explanation, perhaps…
"I just thought you were someone I knew," he blurts without thinking.
"I see." It was the first thing she has said during their little meeting. Her voice is high pitched and sounds like music… yet it has a hard edge to it. So like Alice's, yet so very not.
"I- yeah."
I sound like a fool.
The girl seems to be thinking the same thing. She looks away from him and adjusts the books in her hands.
"I'd better be on my way," she says as she turns around. "See ya." she says over her shoulder.
Jasper hopes that he will. "What's your name? Mine's Jasper." There he goes, saying things without thinking again…
"Alice." She's stopped walking now and is looking back at him.
Should he be surprised? Or not?
"So, Alice… will you meet me in the library at lunch hour?"
She pauses.
What a stupid thing to say! She doesn't even know you. Why the hell would she spend her lunch hour with you?
"Er… sure. See you later, then."
"Yeah… see you later."
She walks away.
Jasper thinks he has lost it.
A/N: Okay, it's still short… but they'll get longer. If you have any suggestions, please let me know, because like I said, this is my first fanfiction and I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing yet XD
Oh! The italicized bits are Jasper's thoughts, btw.
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