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Today's title comes from a quote that I kinda switched around a bit. I think the original was 'I will not worship a God who cannot dance.' If you can tell me who said it you get a cookie.
Kim's POV
All I wanted to do was make some sarcastic remark about how if Jared actually was coming over here I would be left all alone in this large croud of people, something I despised even more than…people who wear socks and sandals, or running shoes and no socks.
All I could do was look down and spin my index finger around the rim of my water bottle while I tried to ignore Myra's fingernails digging into my arm.
I kept my eyes down, but those were unmistakably Jared's feet standing in front of us. Not that I could recognize his feet; Myra had simply stopped breathing, and I was sure her fingernails had started drawing blood.
"You wanna dance?" His voice sounded deeper when it wasn't simply Myra's recreation of something he'd said in art class. Still, even with his deep and comfort-filled voice uttering the words, I was sure that there hadn't been dancing happening moments ago. I looked up in just about enough time to see his hand reaching for mine.
He pulled me out of my seat, effortlessly, as I was too shocked to do anything to stop him. Too shocked to breathe.
He led me to the middle of the room. I tried to pull my hand away. If he even noticed he didn't show it.
Not until he spun around to face me and I looked into his eyes did I see a flurry of emotions that had not been there moments ago and definitely not there on the few times we'd made eye contact in school;
Longing, Empathy, Interest, Hope, Desire, Ecstasy, Grief, Worry, Frustration, Fear, Despair
I'm a girl and I don't even have that many emotions swirling around at once. I wondered what Jared saw in my eyes. Fear? Worry? We had that in common at least. Not that I wanted to have anything in common with him. The only thing that I wanted from him was to let go of me so I could run as far away from here as possible.
His hands wrapped around my waist, interlocking at the back. Mine lightly sat on his shoulders, more because of my still festering uncomfortablity with this situation than his towering presence. Although, getting my arms around his neck comfortably probably would be a feat. He really had grown.
"Is your arm okay?" he asked. I followed his gaze to the spot where Myra'd been holding my arm- Myra!
We had slowly turned around so that I could now see where Myra and I had been sitting. Big surprise; she was no longer there.
I felt nauseous as my life flashed before my eyes like a life or death situation. This was definitely on of those; if and when Myra ever spoke to me again, she was going to kill me.
Jared stepped away for a moment and ripped the arm off of his T-shirt. He looked up at me a chuckled. I flushed as I reset my face from the shocked state it was in to a more controlled neutral position, and hoped he hadn't mistaken my expression for any sort of attraction. He gently picked up my arm and wrapped his ripped sleve around it.
The cuts had broken the skin, but weren't really bleeding, and I was pretty sure that this gesture was completely useless, but I couldn't seem to communicate that, letting out a series of uhs, ums, and ahs instead. But it didn't really matter, because by the time I had formed a full thought, Jared had already locked his hands behind my back and started slow dancing for a second time.
I tried to pull away again. I don't think Jared noticed. I hung down my head in defeat. My forehead was stopped by his shoulder/chest area and I looked again at his unsocked-yet-runningshoed feet. I'd have to switch some things around on that list of things I hate. I'd just decided on a new number one.
Hope you didn't see that coming, even though I know you did.
This chapter was originally shorter, so I added some more fulff for you guys.
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