Crash (gxg) (profxstudent)

Chapter 10: Just a Book

Ellie's POV

Jack and I decided that we would go for a walk through town. Chloe decided to join. She had a lot of work to do for school but she was in need of some kind of inspiration for her homework.

Last night, Jack couldn't stop himself from telling what to text and what to not text Lena. I'm not sure I liked it, I'm not sure she liked it but her answers tell me otherwise. It's just wasn't how I usually am with people. I throw in that little casual flirt from time to time but that was all. 

Lena, on the other hand, was all for it. I feel like she let go of her professor status and just sent me whatever was on her mind, the way she would if I weren't her student. It left me feeling excited but just like a fraud. What if she says the things she said in real life and I don't know what to answer!

We went to the park. Jack made fun of the ducks swimming in the lake. Chloe joined him in his mockery. They were getting along very well. They even made plans to go to a concert nearby without consulting me. To be fair, they both knew I didn't like the artist, not one bit.

"You know, honey, I don't know why you were hesitated to tell me that Jack is coming over! It's quite obvious that we'd along this well, isn't it?" Chloe mentions while trying to sit beside me on the moderately wet grass.

"I didn't hesitate. I just didn't want to bother you or cause any.." I say.

"Any what?" Jack interrupts, raising one eyebrow.

"You know what I mean, silly! " I shove him slightly. "I'm not living alone anymore and maybe Chloe isn't comfortable with the company of people she barely knows."

"You had to know we'd get along! We're basically the same person!" Chloe interjects, Jack humming "no doubt, no doubt." They both burst out laughing.

Chloe put out a bag of Cheetos of her tote bag and some crackers. She's always prepared for an impromptu picnic she said. Then she takes out her sketch book and her pencils that had the eternal fuzz on its end, and starts to sketch what seems like a satanic building. That was her assignement she said.

Jack and I look at her with fascination and fear. We were mostly scared at the pace she's taken up at drawing lines that went everywhere and nowhere all at once. We found it hard to look at the drawing in the wrong way but were able to comprehend it. 

Chloe was thrilled that we started asking questions about what she was doing. She usually worked in her room and nobody really paid attention to what she was doing. Alex would point out if she liked it or not but wasn't really interested in the technicalities of making something like that. 

"You know, being an architecture major is quite thrilling!" She would look up from her sketchbook once and awhile. "Yes, sometimes I don't get to sleep because I have models to finish. And yes, sometimes I have to say no to going out because some professor is taking us on some tour in a some decrepit town because of its amazing artifacts..."

"But?" I question.

"No, that was all! It's exhausting but it's fun... At least to me!" She scribbles some notes on some other page of her notebook, then satisfied with her work, she holds out her sketch to both Jack and I and screams. "All done!"

The drawing was of a great Gothic cathedral with what seemed like pitchforks held at the entries and  bagels coming out of them?

"Remind me of your assignment", said Jack seemingly as confused as I was.

"Well, we have a very interesting professor! He would teach us about different architectural styles and tell us to read books that would rhyme, to us, with the style in question. Then, after the modeling and the real exam, or towards the exam period, he would give us silly little assignments. This is one of them..."