Chapter Three: Like, Trust and Stuff
Ash slumped down in her desk before third block started. It was Mr Erikson's English and Lit class, and the reason she had gotten no sleep. She watched TJ sit down in his seat behind her and a row over, and acknowledged his nod, then swung her legs up onto the desk just as the bell rang.
"Papers, people!" Erikson called, and the class dutifully passed forward their typed reports on Romeo and Juliet. Ash's paper consisted of an angry bashing of Shakespearean society and the so-called love in Romeo and Juliet, and she was damn proud of it.
Erikson shuffled their papers and said casually, as he did at the beginning of each Lit Discussion Wednesday, "Opinions, folks?"
Ashley Q. squealed."It was soooo romantic!" she gushed.
Ash rolled her eyes and snorted. "You disagree, Miss Spinelli?" he asked.
She snorted again. "You can't fall in love with someone you haven't had any real conversations with. They knew each other for four days! Dude, no. Really. Someone needed to knock their heads together. They just wanted to sleep together. Love takes, time, and like, trust and stuff. Bollocks."
Erikson nodded approvingly, and Ash smirked.
Gus chimed in next. "Ash is right with the whole not being in love yet thing, but you can't love a girl if you don't think she's hot first can you?"
TJ turned around and looked at him. "Yeah you can, man. You can be really into some girl since forever, then one day it hits you: wow, she's hot. Out of the blue." He noticed everyone staring and turned a bit red. "Besides, what if you're blind?"
Erikson arched an eyebrow. "Excellent point TJ," he said, nodding. "Now, have any of you considered Romeo and Juliet's ages? They were younger than you, people!" The discussion went on, but Ash was focused on TJ, who was looking pointedly away from her.
what the heck was that? She wondered.