Thoughts That Count
Episode 5 part 1
Ezra
I collected papers from the desks and looked up when I heard the door slam shut.
"Hey there," Aria said cutely.
I instantly smiled, "Hey. I been thinking about you," ever since she came to my apartment, I never stopped thinking about her. Well I never really had from the moment I met her, but since that night it was only thoughts of the sparkle in her deep brown eyes and how I'd do anything to keep it there, "Uh, how are things with your family?"
She held her breath and nodded. It was on the back of her mind too, "They're tense and getting worse. Can you give me an excuse not to go home?" She raised her eyebrows and laughed, "Extra credit assignment or… six hour detention."
I laughed too, nervously shuffling the papers in my hands, "Um, I'm sorry. I actually can't stay late today. I've got this… thing," I finished lamely. She wasn't going to let me get away with that. I already knew it.
"Oh," She nodded as I returned to my desk.
"Well no. Its not a thing. Its just a um… thing," She looked at me skeptically. I was right, my lame answers were getting me no where. God this was embarrassing, "A reading, of a story… that I wrote," I explained with embarrassment.
Her face lit up, "You're reading it? Out loud?" I nodded in embarrassed shame, "Can I come?"
I looked up at her, "You can," This was it. She was going to see my lame writing and leave me. I knew it. "But if it sucks, I'm… going to have to hurt myself, you'd be a witness… It could get ugly."
She laughed, shaking her head at my admittedly a little ridiculous insecurity. I knew it wasn't that bad. And maybe I was flirting a little…
She set down the stack of papers I hadn't even remembered passing to her and leaned on my desk, "You're the teacher. I'm the student, remember?"
I laughed. Who was flirting now? "Yeah."