FTRS Shots and Other Stuff

Conflicting Pairs (Part 2)

Summary: Ollie's POV of the entire ordeal. Deals with the aftermath and peers into the reasons on why Jax had committed those actions.

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"I am going to clobber him."
When he had said those, they weren't for Jack. Not even the slightest. In fact, he secretly praised how he stood up for Gilly.

No, he was going to clobber Jax.

Pathetic, cowardly, lying, dishonest, DUMBASS.

Propping himself up with a hand to his chin, he silently watched his roommate dwell in his dilemma. That's what you get, I told you countless times, but you never listen. He tuned out the chatter in the class and kept his view at the blond boy looking away.

Ollie replayed the things that happened a few moments earlier.

The announcement had rattled their friends. They had overreacted, earning a confused look on Gilly's face. It was even worse that she's oblivious when it's painfully obvious. While Maxine and Kayla were losing their minds, Jocelyn enjoying the whole thing, Ollie was exhausted.

The layout of their classroom wasn't the same as other classrooms. It looked like a sunken dome, the few chairs going up on the rows of steps. It was advantageous to Ollie for it allowed him to sit at the back and see everything, which to a small guy like him, was a dream come true. AG at the front, Jack, Gilly, and Jax at the second, Jocelyn and Kayla on the third, Maxine behind them and in front of him, with Ollie being the last. Unfortunately, he had the whole view on everyone's reactions, including his roommate's.

Jax had already taken out his scrolls prior but stopped to look up then write, look up, write, mention something to Gilly, look up, write, look up-until he didn't.

It was right at the moment Professor Sebastian announced the pair. In a surreal fashion, the world hit pause on Jax' quill tip. His hand was frozen, unmoving, pressed on the parchment. His whole body was. He just stopped.
Begrudgingly, Ollie had said, "I knew this was going to happen."

Not the pairing, the reacting.

It really was a lot terrifying whenever he was calm.

And then Jax just went back to writing like it was nothing. Like he didn't hear anything. Too focused on a fancy-looking scroll. Yeah, it was nothing.

It wasn't nothing.

He wasn't looking up to listen anymore, he just continued to write. Write, write, write, write. Then he didn't. He rolled the scrolls up, tied them neatly.

Then sat up straight and let out whatever his mouth had spouted.

It was announced that the main pairs were Jax and Kayla, and the side pairs Jack and Gilly.

And Jack wasn't on good terms with Jax, even if Gilly herself was friends with him.

Ollie sighed loudly.

Jax didn't even move when Professor Sebastian talked about the main pairs roles nor turned to look at Kayla exclaiming "Excuse me?!" out loud.

"I am never going to hear the end of this," he had grumbled. It was true.

He could foresee it. Him, on his mismatched, disarray side, Jax rambling and rambling on his neater and cleaner side, probably dreading, worrying, or envying what was to come next (Heads up: It was none of these).

Jax finally moved when Gilly turned to face the four at the back by patting her shoulder.

See, to better understand the entire exchange prior: They're best friends, Jax likes her, so does she. Only one of them realized their feelings for the other.