I'm Popular (or at least i used to be) Antes Story [gxg]

Chapter 12

The next day after fourth period, me and Emma walked down the hallway as we usually did.

"Do you want to eat together?" The short girl asked.

I was surprised by her question but quickly regained my composure "...Yeah we can. Where do you want to eat?"

"I know a quiet spot by the library." She said with a straight face.

"Sure. Let's grab our food and then head over there."

We talked about today's class on the way to the cafeteria. We got there and picked up the usual insanely dry sub sandwich. After that Emma led me to her secret spot in silence.

It was a rusty bench with grass growing up and around its four legs. It was on the left side of the library so it faced the forest that surrounded our school. This aspect made the area slightly mystical.

"Do you want to sit down?" Emma asked, looking at me confused.

I must've been staring.

"Yeah. Let's eat."

We took our backpacks off and set them on the bench. We sat in between them and started to eat.

After about five minutes of eating the preppy girl looked at me and spoke up "So you like Emma...The book! Not me."

I smirked. I could've said something flirty here but I decided against it.

"Hey! Stop smirking. I'm trying to start a conversation here." She blurted, pointing her plastic fork at me.

I must applaud the bookish tsundere for trying.

I moved my body so it was a little easier to look at Emma. She was now facing the forest of course. Remembering our conversation from yesterday I said. "I like Emma and other romantic era books. You wanted to talk about it yesterday right?"

"Yes..." The short girl seemed to remember something.

"Hmmm, I like the Bronte sisters. Emily is probably my favorite out of the three." I explained as if Emma had given me an energetic response.

After hearing this Emma seemed to get out of her stupor.

Knew that would work.

"If Villette didn't exist Emily would be my favorite too. Have you read it?" Emma asked

"That was one of my firsts actually so I don't remember much." I said and took the last bite of my sandwich.

"It's my favorite! I loved how Charlotte wrote Lucy as a reserved, self reliant woman. When you usually get self-reliant women characters they're usually strong and outspoken. Which is great. It's just refreshing to get a different variation of that. "

Side thought: I wonder what the Bronte sisters would write in 2017. They were pretty progressive back then, so I wonder what they would make now with the floodgates now opened.

I swallowed the last bite and responded. "For sure. I bet Lucy was the one of the first protagonists like that since that era of writing gave a lot of freedom to authors. Charlotte probably used that freedom to make that kind of character."

"Writers, poets, painters, creatives in general were inspired to make art that related to everyone, not just affluent and scholarly people. Nature and human emotion were their inspiration and the facets that allowed them to tell their beautiful, personal stories. Truly a remarkable era of art." She explained sounding a bit more eloquent than me. I didn't mind though. I actually quite liked it when Emma spoke her mind like this.

"In literature we got some of the best protagonists and characters. Lucy is probably my favorite out of all of them." The preppy girl continued and took the last bite of her sandwich.