Sorry if it took a while to update. Well here's the second chapter. Don't worry I'll post the 3rd one as soon as I finish writing it. :)
Ian cleared his throat. He held his hand out to Amy. Amy rolled his eyes and gave him the papers. He smiled at her as he took the papers.
"As you all know, our school will celebrate its 100th year on Monday. So to celebrate that, we will have a school fair. Today we'll have to discuss the booths we're gonna have for this celebration. Food committee I want you to give me a list of the food that you will prepare..."
The meeting went on like that. Assigning roles. Arranging dates. Discussing. Ian would ask Amy to run errands for him. If not, she would just stand there and hand papers or anything he needs. It's annoying. She was starting to hate herself. Why did she agree to this job anyways?
Amy saw Mae arranging her things in her locker. "Mae! You wanna hang out later with the others?"
Mae smiled at her. "Sure!"
"Okay! Let's meet up later!"
"Woah! Woah! Not you!" Amy looked at her in confusion. "Remember? You need to go to your Council meeting!"
Amy's eyes widened. "What? I'm not even part of the Student Council!"
"Yes, you are! I asked you once you said okay so I told them you would do it. Besides, you're just the secretary. I suppose, secretaries don't do much."
"What? No! I thought you were joking that time! I don't want to go! I don't want to be with him. More so be his secretary!"
"Well you said yes!"
Amy banged her head against the locker in frustration.
"Nooo! My life is ruined!"
Mae grabbed her shoulders to stop her.
"Amy! It's okay! Being in the Student Council gives you ultimate bragging rights plus you're gonna be popular!"
Amy pouted. "Well I don't wanna be popular!"
Mae hugged her tight. "It's okay! Besides what could go wrong?"
It was Mae. Ugh! I gotta beat her up for setting me up. Ugh! Now I need to deal with this for months! Now I'm stuck with Mr. Know-It-All. He thinks he's smart, handsome, pop-
"Amy!"
She blinked her eyes and saw everyone looking at her with his hand outstretched to her.
"Paper, Amy, paper."
She handed him another paper.
"Spacing out, are we now? Say sorry to the president!"
It was Paige. The school's most popular and richest kid in school. Maybe even richer than the Kabras. Amy stood awkwardly as she felt everyone's eyes on her. Again. That's why she never had any friends as a child. It was always because of the attention that people are giving her makes her anxious of every move she makes. She looked at him. He sat there waiting for her apology. She sighed.
"Sorry, Ia-"
She heard Paige cleared her throat.
Amy rolled her eyes. "Sorry, Mr. President."
She saw Paige smiled triumphantly and continued to look seductively at Ian. Gosh! How she wish she could punch that face! Why does she always have to ruin everything? Ugh! I wish I can wipe that smug off her face and beat her up like a sandbag! She blinked a few times. Wow! Violent me... Well, it is her fault. If she thinks she can make me bow down to her, she's wrong. Damn wrong!
She gripped the hem of her shirt to calm herself down. Calm down, Amy. Calm down. There are better things to be done than getting back at Paige.
When the time came, everything was settled. The plan was laid out. The only thing left is executing the plan. Everyone arranged their things and started to go home until she was the only one left. She needed to arrange the papers again for "future references" according to Ian. But Amy gotta admit Ian is an effective leader. Everyone was all ears and very responsive. He managed to plan everything very well from the top to bottom. He made sure everything was being taken care of.
Well he is the Lucian leader. He must have handled situations far more worse than this. In fact, this must be a piece of cake for him. I mean, studies and work at the same time? Not easy, if you have a normal job. What if your job involves top secret cases and saving the world? Definitely, that's never going to be easy. She looked at her watch. Shoot! I need to go! Mae must be waiting for me!
She quickly grabbed her bag and went out of the room when she suddenly hit something hard, rather someone.
"Sorry."
She looked up and was surprised to see those amber eyes staring back at her.
"Sorry, love. Forgot something." said Ian.
"Sorry again, gotta go! And don't call me that!" Amy said and ran off along the hallway.
"Amy! Wait!" She heard him shout but she ignored him. She was late and she needed to hurry up. No time for chit-chat.
She stood impatiently by the stoplight, waiting for the green light, when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned around and saw Ian Kabra breathing heavily.
"I was shouting your name. Didn't you hear me?" Ian asked.
"I'm in a hurry. So what do you want?"
"Well, I was thinking maybe you would want to walk together."
She stared at him with wide eyes. He never did that. They were classmates for a year and this was the first time he did that. It's not that she was waiting for him to offer. It's just that they were living just next to each other and weirdly, they never walked together to school or going home. Maybe he was too busy or he just never thought of that. Possibly, he might be trying not to.
Seeing the green light, she walked across the street.
"I won't be going home. I promised Mae I would teach her math."
She felt Ian follow behind her.
"It's okay. I'll just drop you off then."
She didn't answer him. She didn't know what to say. Maybe it's because a part of her wanted him to go away but another part of her wanted him to stay with her. She just turned around and continued walking. Together they walked in silence.
Ian Kabra was nervous. Very nervous and he didn't know why. All he did was just walk together with Amy Cahill. Nothing else. His heart pounded loudly in his chest. His hands felt sweaty. What did I do? It's not like I'm gonna do something in front of thousands of people. Well logically I am doing something in front of thousands of people. I'm walking home.
Ian stole a glance at her. Her hair draped over her shoulder. Her green eyes twinkling against the sunlight. She changed, from a shy girl to a strong woman. He remembered she used to stutter. A lot. Especially when she's nervous.
He chuckled at the thought. She looked at him in confusion. He looked away as soon as she turned her head.
"What?" Amy asked in confusion.
He turned his head to look at her. "Nothing."
Amy looked at him suspiciously. She wanted to prod him to tell her but she decided to let the matter drop. He wouldn't tell her anyways.
"So how are things? she asked.
"Fine, I guess. You?"
He felt her hesitation. He didn't mean to force her to answer her question. Well, it is some sort of respect to ask the other person back.
"I-I don't know..." she said in a voice barely above a whisper.
Ian raised his eyebrow. "You don't know?" He waited for a response but none came. She looked away.
"Amy..." She didn't reply. He called her again for several times but she seems to be spacing out.
Amy realized she shouldn't have asked that question. When he asked about her, everything went rushing back to her. The memories. The pain. The fear. Everything. Why? Why did everything have to be so evil? Why did people have to die? Why did Evan have to die? Why?
She felt her tears, wanting to explode. When she felt his hand on her wrist, she blinked hard and looked up at him.
"Amy, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-"
She cut him off. "No. It's not your fault. It's not our fault. It's the Vespers..."
She felt tears streak down her cheeks. She quickly rubbed them off.
He didn't know what to do, what to say. He shut off every possible move he could do. He was afraid. Afraid that he might hurt her more. Finally, letting his instincts kick in, he cupped her cheek and wiped her tears off.
"Don't cry. You look ugly when you cry." he whispered slowly.
She flinched. His touch sent sparks down her spine. Her heart beat fast. She wanted to back away but she was lost. Lost in the amber eyes that was staring back at her. She couldn't understand. Sadness. That's what she only saw but something was wrong. Something she can see but couldn't quite understand.
He wandered in those green eyes searchingly. Trying to grab something, anything at all but nothing came out. His mind became blank. Everything was gone. He could only hear his heart beat like crazy. There was only him and her. That was all he knew.
She whispered. "Ian..."
He snapped back into reality. He realized what he just did and quickly withdrew his hand. He put both hands in his pockets.
"Sorry." he muttered. He took his handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to her. "Use it."
She reluctantly took the handkerchief. After wiping her tears off, they continued to walk again in silence until they reach their destination.
She stretched her hand towards him with his handkerchief on hand.
"Ian."
Ian shook his head. "No. Take it. Just return it to me next time. It's okay."
"Um...okay. Thanks. See ya."
She waved awkwardly. He nodded in return. She looked at his back as he walked away. She waited as her heart calmed down. He's always so mysterious. Even before, no one knows what he thinks, not even Natalie. Who knows what's inside that head of his?
"Do I smell love in the air?"
Amy turned around. She saw Mae standing there.
"You! It's all your fault!"
Mae was astonished.
"What? What did I do?"
"You dragged me into this! Now I'm stuck with him!"
Mae grinned. "Look on the bright side, Amy. At least you'll find your other half."
"No! Impossible! He doesn't like me and I don't too! "
"Really? Well he looked like he does."
Amy glared at her."Oh! I forgot something. Bye!" She walked away.
"Amy! Wait! I was just joking!" Mae ran after her and hugged her from behind. "I was just joking! Please forgive meeee!"
Amy laughed at her friend's childish ways.
"Fine. Let's go. We have some Math problems to solve."
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