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She cleared her throat and kept her eyes fixed on the ground.
"Yes..." |
"So, do you have a boyfriend now then?" he asked, shyly. He had wanted to ask before, but he was far to shy to bring it up so sporadically. Now, it just seemed to fit into conversation.
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Her eyes grew wide and her mouth curled up in a smile, knowing he couldn't see her face.
"No...why?" |
"Huh?" he asked, surprised by her reaction, "Oh, uh no reason." he said looking around
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She lightly laughed as she thought,
'No reason huh?' She just hopped off of the table and started walking away, expecting him to come with. |
Casey watched after her a moment before tailing her, "Why do you just keep walking away like that without saying anything? Do you think I'm a dog or something?" he asked.
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She didn't turn to him.
"Well, I'm sorry, but you obviously don't have the courage to ask me out right now so I'll just wait until when you do." She didn't move. |
Casey laughed, "Courage to ask you out? Who said I wanted to ask you out?" he laughed, the idea being truly hysterical to him. Ask her out? She really though he wanted to ask her out? After the two FABULOUS days she had put him through. He would sooner get on all fours and bark.
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She shrugged it off, her expression didn't change, though she was dying on the inside.
"Okay, see you later." She tossed the keys behind her at him before she left. "Lock up when you're done." Her expression still hadn't changed. She walked downstairs, and finally, she frowned, holding back her tears. |
"Hey! Wait a damn minute!" he yelled after her. That irked him seriously. She puts him through hell, and gets upset when he doesn't want to date her? How seriously damaged. She couldn't like him or anything, right? He followed after her, locked it quickly and threw the key on the locker where it came from. Then, he caught up to her, "What's your problem?" he asked her, "What did you think? I was going to fall in love with you after you put me through hell the past two days? I got punched in the gut for you, I've dealt with you giving me the cold shoulder. I gave you a right home, I've followed you around and I have been nothing but nice to you despite it all. So what, what else do you want me to do here? Date you when you treat me like crap?" Casey was highly enraged and didn't understand what she wanted. He couldn't fathom what she was thinking. And he didn't care about hurting her feelings when she just kept hurting his without consequence.
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She turned around and faced him.
"No, if you didn't want to you could have just come right out and said it, you don't have to." She gripped the roots of her hair. "I've been trying so hard...then you put me down telling me what I'm doing wrong. I thanked you for getting hurt, I thanked you for driving me home, I stopped ignoring you, what else do you want me to do?" She asked with hand gestures. |
Casey's mouth dropped, and his eyebrows furrowed, "You thanked me and you're still ignoring me. Walking away from me every ten seconds, not answering my questions when I'm trying to have a conversation with you. And F-Y-I, I just DID tell you. You were the one who was going to leave me, walking away like I didn't matter when I told you I didn't want to date you. So don't blame all this on me, Ice Queen." he said, thoroughly enraged. His voice wasn't showing it though, of course. There was a gentleman in him yet.
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She let go of her hair and her hands dropped to her sides.
"Okay...I'm sorry. We have class in a few minutes, that's why I was leaving. Not because you told me that." She said quietly. She had calmed down and wondered if they would be late or skip class. |
Casey laughed a little, "Wow, I forgot we were in school for a minute there..." he laughed again at himself. He sighed a little, "I'm not particularly in the mood for class either... Guess it wouldn't be right to skip though, right?" he asked. He looked to the side and lowered his voice, "You could warn me when you're leaving or something, you know. Instead of just walking off..."
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She nodded lightly and slowly then looked up at him.
"No...it wouldn't. Uhm...I will. We should...probably go now." |
Casey nodded slowly, "Alright, then yeah, we should get going." he said and then added, "And it's not like I don't like you or anything, it's just I don't like you in that way, you know?"
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She smiled and nodded.
"See ya later." She said before she turned and walked away. She stopped at her locker to grab her materials then hopped off to her next class. |
Casey smiled a little himself, "Later" he repeated, then walked to his own locker and grabbed his things. When he finally got into class, he was just barely on time. Not that he paid any attention to what the teacher was saying anyhow. Casey was busy thinking of a way to smooth things out with Ichigo. There was so much tension between them it was nuts. Class dragged on as he thought, but to Casey, it ended too soon still. He wasn't sure where she was, and he wasn't sure he had the navigational skills to find her either. IT had only been a day, and he hadn't much of an idea where everything was yet. Thank God that the architecture of the school was simple.
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She walked back to her locker before she went home to grab her stuff.
She tilted her lock on her locker up to spin the combination in. She opened her locker, but an unexpected smack to her head echoed. 'Shit!' She rubbed it off and grabbed her books, jacket, and backpack. |
When Casey made it downstairs, he saw Ichigo at her locker. He walked over, "Hey," he said, getting her attention first, "do you need a ride home again?" he asked.
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She looked up at him and closed her locker quietly.
"Uhm...If you don't mind." |
"Alright, no problem." he smiled, "Just let me stop at my locker first." he said and walked back towards his own.
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She closed her eyes tightly and wanted the past to go away. She wished she had been nicer before. She opened her eyes and followed him.
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Quickly, he grabbed his things from his locker and shut it, then led her to his car. He wasn't sure what to say, so he said nothing. Casey unlocked it from a few feet away so she could get in at her leisure, preferably sooner than later though.
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"Thanks."
Ichigo said when he opened the unlocked the door for her. She opened the door and grabbed the roof, swinging herself in. She put her bag on her feet and shut the door. She put the seat belt on and adjusted it. |
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