Chapter Two - Embarrassment to a Point
By the time the words "Jack" came out of my homeroom teacher's mouth, my head was already banging on my table. I tried to use my book and cover my face as soon as I can, but when I looked up I could see his eyes staring right at me, a smirk spreading across his face. I ignore the whole classes stares at me and cover up my face with the book again. clears his throat and gestures Jack to sit two seats away from mine, then continues to talk about some upcoming events.
My book still in my face, Rapunzel turns around slowly. "What's wrong?" She whispers, her eyebrows knotted. I look up from my book and cover half my face.
"That's him." I stuff my face back into my book, thank god I'm at the back row, or else Sampson would've embarrassed me even more than I already have.
Rapunzel's eyes grow wide, she glances quickly at Jack who still has a huge grin on his face but is looking at the board. "I thought I saw that hoodie somewhere before." She turns back before Sampson catches her. What a disaster, how am I supposed to face him?
The bell rings and everyone starts heading to the next class. I glance over at where Jack was sitting, and there are already a few guys around him, trying to spark up a conversation and become friends, or bro's or whatever guy friends call other guy friends. I try my best to avoid any eye contact with him and slightly tilt my head the other way as I walk out of the classroom and head to Biology. "Punzel, what should I do? Oh god, just when I never wanted to see him again, he suddenly appears. Out of nowhere. In our high school. In our class. I mean what a huge coincidence is that?" I start ranting without even noticing my sudden rush of confidence in my speaking.
She giggles a bit. "Wow, I think that was the longest sentence that you have ever said to me." She points out, I roll my eyes at her and keep walking down the busy hallway. We enter the biology classroom and sit at our designated seats that Mrs. Turner gave us at the start of the year. The white hair cannot be unnoticed, especially hair that platinum. Jack talks to the teacher for a while as she points to the seat beside me. "Since mister Charles decided to drop out, there is a seat right next to miss Dale." (A/N: I made Elsa's last name Dale because Arendelle sort of ends with a Dale sound.) He looks straight at me and that same goofy grin spreads across his face. Though I am more preoccupied by the fact that I'm no longer that lonely girl who drove their lab partner away, but that girl with the lab partner whom she spilt coffee on that morning.
"Well hi there, nice to meet you again, but I did recall you saying 'See you never' before you left." He jokes as he puts down his bag and takes a seat beside me. I can't help but laugh at my own embarrassing moments and cringe at the thought of it.
I briefly locked eyes with him for a moment but quickly averted my eyes. "It must be fate then." I laugh a bit but then realise what a horrible "joke" that I have accidentally made. "I mean like, we should be, um-"
Before I could explain my previous fate remark, I find him laughing at me lightly. "Yea I think I got it. Weird though, never thought you'd even be in the same class." There is a silence between us, but Mrs. Turner decided to mess up the peaceful moment with yet another lecture on some part of the human body.
Apparently we have to create a model of the human brain and label it, with your lab partner. Haha, great. For some reason I'm always on edge when I'm next to him, maybe it's because I haven't spoken to a boy since kindergarten, or maybe it's because I find his goofy laugh really refreshing. It almost makes me feel like I finally have another… another friend. I shake the thought out of my head. No Elsa. You can't let him get close to you, you don't want to hurt him. "Wow, first day and I already have a project to do. Please guide me Ms. Elsa." He jokes while we have some time to write down ideas and an action plan. I almost let out a smile, but try to conceal it. This is just a project. Don't get too excited, conceal your feelings and no one gets hurt. He sees my awkward reaction and tilts his head, with a confused expression on his face. He shrugs it off and the deafening silence almost kills me. I can't do it.
"So, are you free this week? We could find a day to make this thing." I propose, staring at his icy blue eyes, a light smile on my face. He looks relieved and nods. "I'm free any day." He says, while sketching a snowflake on his notebook.
I flip through the pages of my lined notebook and find the same snowflake on one of the note-filled pages which I drew earlier this term, I hold it up to show him and laugh. "I guess we both have the same interest in snowflakes then." I giggle, covering my mouth while at it.
"Don't cover it." He says, placing his hand on my arm, pulling it down. "Don't cover such a beautiful smile Elsa. It's not wrong to laugh." At first I am shocked, mostly because he called my smile 'beautiful' which somehow made my heart beat just a tiny bit faster, but then I realise that I automatically cover my mouth whenever I laugh, it's just natural, like it's something I shouldn't be doing.
A smile spreads on my face, as wide as I could, because for the first time in forever, I didn't feel the need to cover up my feelings. I didn't feel the need to control myself, and I didn't feel embarrassment.
All because Jack told me it was alright. All because someone told me it was okay for me to let go.
This chapter is sorta shorter than the last, but I thought this ending would be for the best~
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