"Hey Katie." Jason smiled to me.
"Oh hey Jason, so today after glee, the library?"
"Yeah no problem." Okay so I know what you are thinking, I haven't blown Jason off, and let him speak more than 1 thing to me outside of the project. I know what Jason did to me was screwed up, and he deserved every ounce of hate I dished out to him, and it may seem we are back on a friendly level, but that's just for the time being. When we finish the project, we'll go our separate ways and that will be that.
I shut my locker, and started walking towards English.
"So, you know that we still haven't decided exactly on what scene to do, right?"
"Yes, but we can't agree on anything, so it makes it kind of hard." I said as we reached the classroom and took our seats.
"No, you just hate all of my suggestions."
"You only had one, which was the balcony scene, which involves a kiss, which we will not be doing." I flat out said, he went to object but Mrs. Serelly walked in.
"Okay class, well I am going to let you work on your projects, but first, I would like to add a twist to it. I want you guys to take the scenes and make them modern, make it like it's happening today, and also, I want you guys to re-invent your scenes, now what I mean by that, is, you can change the event. For example, say the balcony scene, what if Romeo was never there? Or what if Juliet never said those things?" She said excitedly and made us get to work.
Jason and I sat there for a few minutes, while discussion irrupted around us. I sat there thinking of what scene we could do and how we could change it, when it clicked.
"I got it!" I turned to Jason, "What if, what if Juliet awoke BEFORE Romeo drank the poison."
Jason turned to me getting where I was going, "They would have their chance. They would be able to run off together."
"Looks like we got our project." I became excited and Jason and I high fived.
As I walked out of English with Jason, he was telling some joke, which wasn't that funny, but the enthusiasm behind his voice was.
I walked up to my locker, when Nat came up.
"Hey Katie!" she smiled, which soon faded when she saw who was standing next to me. She just glared.
"Um, hey Nat." Jason tried breaking the silence that occurred.
"It's Natalie." She crossed her arms.
"But everyone calls you Nat." Jason stated confused.
"Only people I LIKE are allowed to call me that. Scum bags like you aren't." She shifted her weight to her left leg.
"Okay, I can take a hint." Jason said backing away," Bye Katie." He then looked to Nat, "Natalie." He gave an awkward wave and walked away.
"Why are you hanging out with him?" She said sort of upset.
'We aren't hanging out, we are just partners for the project, or as I put it to him, co-workers."
"Well, you and your, "co-worker"," She said putting air quotes around co –worker, "seemed to be pretty happy.
'Look Nat nothing is going on." I assured her. 'I fell for his tricks once and refuse to fall for them again, I promise after the project is over, we will both go out separate ways and be gone from each others lives."
"Okay, I jut don't want to see you get hurt." She hugged me.
"I promise I won't" I smiled and hugged her back.
My phone started vibrating, taking it out of my bag I looked at it.
"Oh my God." I moaned and threw back in.
"Who keeps calling that you don't want to answer?" she questioned as we started to walk.
"Nobody."
From the corner of my eye, I could see her worry I stopped and turned to her,"I went through this with Quinn, nothing is wrong, If something was, I would tell you."
"Alright." She stated and we began walking again.
As I walked into glee I took my usual seat, I was kind of early, so the only people her, were Finn and Rachel, her were, trapped in there own conversation, and Mike and Matt. So I pulled out my notebook and started writing down some things for the project for Mrs. Serelly.
"So somebody has been getting friendly, with a Mr. Jason Miller, again." I jumped the voice catching me by surprise. I turned to see Mercedes with Kurt standing by her, getting ready to listen to the explanation I was going to give to them.
"We are English partners, that's all. Nothing is going on when we finish the project, which is due this Friday, we will go separate ways." I assured them and turned back to my notebook, going over some of my ideas.
"Alright, but what happened to you hating him, hmm?" Kurt said raising an eyebrow.
"We were going to fail the project if all we did was fight every 2 seconds, so I decided I had to be friendly with him, to get the project done." Saying this made me feel like I was trying to convince myself more than anything, but I immediately shook that out of my head.
"Alright, but be careful with him, and make sure it's just until the project is over." Mercedes warned, I nodded my head, and Mr. Shue walked in.
"Alright guys," he said and clapped his and together.
Mr. Shue dismissed us from Glee, I stood up and grabbed my bag and notebook, I turned and saw Jason standing there.
"Ready?" he asked.
"Lets go." I smiled and we walked out, but not before Puck grabbed my arm.
""Where are you going with him." Puck spoke loud enough for Jason to hear, causing Jason to step back.
"Chill, we are going to the library to work on our project." Puck looked unsure, but let go of my arm, and walked over to Jason, standing close enough that Pucks chest was almost touching his, Jason was a little shorted then Puck so his gaze went downward, and Jason looked like he was going to pee himself.
"You lay a hand on her, and you won't have to worry about finishing your English project on time." Puck clenched his fists, and looked satisfied my jaosn scared expression. He turned and walked away, with a smirk on his face, "Just call me when you're done." He said to me and walked out
Jason looked to me, and slowly walked over, I think he was scared that if he got to close Puck would pop out of no where and kill him.
"Don't worry." Referring to his face I laughed and patted him on the back, "I need a good grade on this, so I won't let Puck kill you." The tenseness in his body faded slightly and I continued. "Until after the project, I smirked and walked out of the room.
"Oh very funny." He said catching up to me.
Sitting at a table in the library I opened my notebook, and opened my Romeo and Juliet book, to the page of the scene we were doing.
"Okay," I said and placed my notebook on the table," we have to make this scene more modern and decided we would change it up before he drank the poison. Right?"
"Sounds right." He said and leaned back in his chair.
"Alright, so all we do now is write, a modern version the scene, and put in our version." We got to work, and it stated going really well.
He came and sat next to me from his seat across the table and we started discussing how this would work and he leaned in to see what I was writing better.
"And we are done." I said happily, closing the notebook, and looking up. Just to come to notice how close we were, especially our faces.
"U-um." I cleared my through and looked down.
"Making you nervous, am I?" he smiled and leaned closer.
"Knock it off." I finally realized what was going on and pushed him away gently.
"You know it true." He put on a crooked grin, and I rolled my eyes.
"Just shut up, and let my print this out in peace." I stated as the papers began to slide out of the printers.
"What? Come on, you got nervous, just admit it," he said stepping closer. "How about now, is this making you nervous." I tried to push him away again, but he maintained his stance, so I looked down letting my hair cover my face.
"Am I making you blush, hmm? Is that blush I see on Katie?" he said surprised.
I immediately looked up, "Just shut up and here," I said taking the sheet of paper that just printed and shoving it against his chest. "You didn't make me blush, or make me nervous, you just caught me off guard." I said again seeming like I was tryring to convince myself more than him, "And, in order to get close enough to me to even make me blush I need to forgive you which I haven't! And remember, "Co- workers, that's all we are and co-workers don't do this." I said gesturing between the two of us.
"They do if one co-worker likes the other." He slyly said.
"Goodbye Jason." I said walking out of the library giving him a backwards wave.
I walked out the doors of McKinnely, and the sunshine hit my face, I reached in my bag and pulled out my phone.
"Hello?" Puck said on the other end.
"Hey Puck, I'm done can you come pick me up?"
"Yeah be there in 5, so be ready.' The line went dead, and I flipped my phone closed and returned it to my bag, of course it starts to ring when I do so. I dug through my bag and picked up the phone. And looked at the id.
"I guess you didn't get my message, leave me the hell alone, I swear you cal one more time, expect the police to be at your door step!" I slammed the phone shut and leaned agains the wall, running my hands through my hair.