After Effects

Chapter 4. - Put On A Show

I walked away from Bojan In a hurry. I didn't know what happened. One minute i was just trying to reach a book, the next i was about to kiss him.

No.

I don't think i actually wanted to kiss him, it was just the moment. Despite trying to convince myself i couldn't shake the way he looked me at. It was like he was starring right into my soul. And it felt nice. Comforting almost.

I managed to find their poetry collection which was really small. They didn't even have anything Emily Dickenson. What bookstore doesn't sell Emily Dickenson? Looking through the little amount of poetry i couldn't stop thinking about Bojan's body pressing against mine. It was so weird because Bojan and I always touched each other in some way so it wasn't because i was new to his touch. It was probably just the moment. I was pressed up against a shelf then his body touched mine, we're comfortable around each other and we're both sexually active people who've know each other since they were teenagers. That's why we almost kissed.

I ended up buying the book about the Witch Trials and another book about Chakras. As i was buying it Bojan appeared next to me. I gave him an awkward smile only looking him the eyes for a split second. I don't think the pretty cashier picked up on the awkwardness between us because of what she said next.

"You guys make a cute couple." She gave me a warm smile, no eye contact and found a brown paper bag from underneath her desk which she packed my books in.

"Oh, we're not a couple." Bojan said and pointed at the two of us. He sounded a bit defensive which honestly hurt a little. What would be so bad about dating me? The dude and I were almost about to kiss 10 minutes ago. I gave him a weird look, wondering why he sounded so defensive yet... sad.

The girl nodded and seemed a bit surprised, but... pleased...?
"Oh. What a shame." She munbled. After i paid she took the receipt.

"One moment please." She took a pen and wrote something on it. Then she put it into the bag and gave it to me.

"Thank you." I said. She winked at me after telling me to have a nice day.

Bojan and i walked out of the store, silence filled the air around us. I dug into my bag to see what she wrote on my receipt, i noticed Bojan scraching his neck. He was nervous. I knew that.

"Call me❤️ + 34 67 26 49 90 - Sophie" The message read.

The note made me smile. The girl had indeed been really cute. She had these big brown puppy eyes and chokolade brown hair. She wasn't very tall. She must have been, like, 2 centimeters taller than me. 4 at most. She was tan and had the smoothest skin i's ever seen on a girl.

"Listen Solveig, I - what?" Bojan started but changed subject when he noticed me smiling at the note. I showed the receipt to him and pointed with a big smile on my face and tipping forth and back on my feet.

"She gave me her number." I chuckled. Bojan did too but it kind of sounded forced. He took the receipt and looked at it for a second, the smile on his pretty lips not matching his eyes.

"Cool. You're gonna call her and ask her out?" He asked. I shrugged my shoulders.

"I don't know. I'm not really looking for a relationship to be honest, especially not long-distance. She was really cute though, don't you think?" I couldn't read his expression. With all of the observing and research i'd done through my upbringing i'd learned to read expressions, body language and social situations pretty well. But i couldn't read Bojan right now and i didn't like not being able to do that. If i couldn't read and analyse a situation i was in i'd go on autopilot. And my brain was really not good at going autopilot because my brain is always working manually.