What if I could be Mrs Darcy?

4

"You got the cat?" asked Bob. She loved animals even more than I did and I knew she was going to spend more time in my house than in hers from now on

"You're missing the point of the story. She shared a look with John" said Charlie nearly shouting of joy

"Yeah you'll marry any time soon" added Sophie sarcastically

"You guys are not helping. It's just a crush. And I haven't known him that long"

"He's coming this way, he's coming" said Bob as she stroked her eyebrow.

That was our signal that someone was coming and we had to change the subject and act normal

We changed our topic to Bob's hair and John passed right next to us

"Hi Liz!" he said out loud waving at me with a full smile

"Hi" I said shyly waving back

When he went away everyone did a circle around me

"You are so into him"

"Oh my god look at you so cute blushing because of a hi"

"You look as if you could kiss the floor he walks on"

"Charlie!" everyone reproached her

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"Elizabeth could you please come and copy your exam on the blackboard?" asked the teacher "And the rest of you copy it and with the solutions I want you all to repeat it at home. This was one of the easiest exams..."

I didn't hear anymore because I was blushing too much from embarrassment. There was no bigger torture than being the highest mark in maths class. The teacher made you copy your work on the blackboard so everyone would know how to do it.

I slowly went for my exam and saw a big red ten circled with a "Congratulations" next to it. I took a chalk and wrote lazily. I took special care not to look at the classroom.

If I had done it I would have found John's intense eyes looking at me and smiling. I would have probably had a heart attack from that look only.

When I finished writing I walked to my seat and slid in my chair trying to be invisible

"Guess what" I heard from behind

I turned around and got closer to Bob "He's been looking at you the whole time"

"Well he was copying me, where else would he be looking at?" I whispered back

"I know what I saw"

"What did you see?" joined us Charlie in our whispers

"Okay everyone look at John" said Bob urgently "But discreetly"

That was like telling a dog to stop barking. Useless and it gets the opposite reaction than what you said.

We all turned our heads and looked at him

He was staring right back at us

"Oh crap" I muttered

He smiled and did a slight nod with the head to say hi. We smiled back and went back to our little talk embarrassed

"He was looking right this way"

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"It's not my fault if you aren't discreet"

"Look who's talking" said Charlie higher than expected