A couple weeks later, Tancred and Emma sat at Emma's house, putting the finishing touches on the project before the due date that Monday. There was only a week until the Moonlit Ball.
The two had become very close after the Jamie and Tancred broke up. Emma felt like she could like Tancred again, even though she had Ben to think about. To both of them, Ben didn't matter.
"So, Em, what do you think we're going to get on this assignment?" Tancred wondered.
"I don't really know. Hopefully it's an A or something. We deserve this for how hard we're working."
Tancred grinned. The only reason the were working so hard was because Tancred had had a little outburst when they were working at his house the week before and he had ruined three of their drawings. Emma had freaked out and now they were working long hours for the weekend to wrap up the project. "So, what are you doing tonight Emma?"
"Jamie wanted to hang out with me. We're going to see a movie."
"You're friends with Jamie now?" Tancred wondered.
Emma nodded. "She's very nice. We're might be meeting Olivia up there as well, if she gets her homework done."
Tancred was slightly appalled. Now Emma was hanging out with his ex? What was wrong with the world? At least she wasn't hanging out with Tracy Morsell. That would be a trip.
Tancred glanced at Emma, who was sitting on her bed, working away, while he sat at her desk, doing as much as we could with his horrible art skills. He wasn't good at drawing and painting at all, but he was okay at sculpting, so he'd done that portion of the project, with Emma's help. The two had gotten excused from class for a whole afternoon to work on the sculpture, and they'd had a lot of fun. Tancred wished that the time they spent together every day never had to end. He loved hearing her laugh and seeing her smile and of coarse he felt wonderful with her in the same room as him. It was going to suck when the project ended on Monday and he wouldn't have any reason to hang out with her. Ben loved to hog Emma, probably just to piss Tancred off, too.
After Tancred glanced at Emma, Emma glanced at him. Ever since Jamie had started being Emma's friend, and the two had broken up, she felt as if Tancred could be hers at any moment, if she would just tell him how she felt.
After some long hours of working, the two finally finished the project, just in time for Emma to go and hang out with Olivia and Jamie.
"That movie was awesome!" Jamie said as the three girls exited the movie theater.
"I agree. That was a good pick, Olivia." Emma told her best friend.
"Emma, why didn't you invite Ben?" Olivia wondered, changing the subject. She'd already seen the movie five thousand times and didn't feel like talking about it.
Emma was caught off guard. The girls had told her to, but she hadn't. She didn't know why, so she shrugged.
"There's got to be some reason. You jumped at the chance to invite Jamie, so why not your boyfriend?" Olivia pressed, knowing exactly why she hadn't invited Ben.
Emma shrugged, "because I want to get to know Jamie." It was partly true. She wanted to get to know Jamie, and she also didn't want to hang around Ben right now. She was so confused at the moment.
Olivia dropped the subject and the three continued on with their girls' night out.
On Monday, Tancred and Emma sat together with their projects displayed in front of them. The teacher was looking at Jamie's, Ben's, and Lysander's at the moment. Tancred and Emma where the last and they were nervous. The highest someone got was a B+. It was kind of scary waiting and waiting for her to come over to them.
"We'll do good, Em. I swear." Tancred promised.
Emma just nodded. She couldn't find her voice.
"B," the teacher told the group of three and came over to Emma and Tancred. "Good morning, you two." she smiled at them and examined their work. "This is very good. Probably some of the best I've seen all day."
Emma and Tancred smiled at each other. This had to be good.
"A, you two. Did you two work on this outside of school?"
Tancred and Emma nodded.
"You're the only group who did, apparently. Good job Mr. Torsson, Ms. Tolly. I knew it was good to put you two together." She said, not knowing how true her words where. She was the reason Tancred and Emma were speaking to each other again and where now friends again.
The teacher turned to the class. "Highest grade: A, to Emma Tolly and Tancred Torsson." she announced, then excused the class.
Tancred and Emma hugged each other, then pulled away. Both of their faces were flushed, realizing they'd just touched.
"Good job, Em!" Jamie came up to Emma, then turned to Tancred, "You too, Tancred."
Tancred nodded at her as she walked away, telling Emma to sit with her at lunch.
Ben came up next, and before he pulled Emma away, he whispered, "Don't ever touch or talk to my girlfriend again, or else." to Tancred.
Tancred gaped at him as Ben and Emma walked away, Emma oblivious to the fact that her boyfriend had just threatened Tancred.
Okay, this chapter probably sounds kind of repetative and stupid, but i felt like it needed to be there, so here it is. i'm only usually going to be able to update on weekends for a while, so it may be a week before i update, two weeks if i don't get 4 reviews(at least) for this chapter. there's only about two chapters left, so i'd review as much as possible, so i can get the ending, which is very sweet indeed.
