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24 Am | Crazy? (Winona)
I'm speechless. | stare at Jayden and sit down in the chair opposite him. What does this really all mean? Apart
from the wish thing, which is stupid anyway, | do need to be able to get along with him from a business
perspective.
There will be times we need to be out together. Maybe it is better to rip the sticking plaster off quickly and get it
over with
As if he reads my mind. "A business date. That's all. Honestly, we can't always be in the office. It's just one date"
| can't help remembering the first the askedout.
It's junior year of high school. | watch the two fools passing notes in a math exam and one drops, floating over to
land closer to my desk than to theirs. It's not that they were not brainy enough, they were just too lazy to bother
focusing. Of course they had money to fall back on.
And the math teacher, commonly known amongst the students as Old Man Bulldog, is someone who doesn't
tolerate this kind of behavior, no matter how much money your family has. | see he's turned around and spotted
the paper on the floor.
Automatically and god knows why, | pick up the note as he advances.
"Winona? What is that?"
"Sorry, Mr. Brown. Honest mistake. | had flash cards before class, and one must have stayed in my pocket."
He eyescautiously. | smile at him.
"I see. Well, in future, be more careful. Anyone else and I'd throw out of class. But you are the last person who
needs to cheat. Probably more on one flash card of yours than the class put together knows."
"Thanks. | won't be so careless again."
And that is how | attracted the attention of the richest student in the school.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtAfter that, Jayden seemed to be everywhere | was. I'd never seen him outside of class before. He'd say hi and I'd
just mumble and keep walking. I've seen the movies, | know someone like him showing someone like me
attention is going to end badly. It's what they do for kicks.
| was going through a pretty hard tat home. | was studying every second | got and his constant stalking"
becalmost a comfort for me. He madesmile despite myself. Before long, | was falling for his infectious
attitude and him being around.
"Go out with me!" He begs for the 100th time. "Con. It's just one date..."
"... Okay."
"Well, no problem, I'll ask you tomorrow. No... wait. Did you just say yes?!"
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24 Am | Crazy?
He picksup and spinsaround in front of all his friends. | guess he really doesn't care what anyone thinks.
But it still bothers me.
The memory of a younger version of Jayden brings a sad smile to my lips. Now here he is sitting across from me
with no clue about the history we'd built together. Yet | have the sdilemma, him askingto go out with
him andbeing reluctant. "Earth to Winona! Are you going to givean answer or just sit there mooning all
day?"
"There's a lot to consider. I'm trying my hardest to move on and let you do the same," | answer honestly.
"But you know we'll have to be out together for business from tto time. May as well get it over with." There
he goes again, being logical. "I can't see what the problem is really."
No, you never could see what the problem was, | don't think he ever really understood how our backgrounds
made it so difficult. We quarreled a lot over those differences. But that never deterred him from wanting to be
with me.
While he lovedand I him, | don't think he ever had empathy for why I felt the way | did about us. guess that
would have cwith time, once he'd spent tin my world more. But that tgot cut
short.
"You aren't going to try and make it personal? | don't want to mix those two things up. That's not going to be
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"If you can lessen the warts area, | think | can be authentic to a script."
"| can write that script. | know you well enough."
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