Snow Princess

Chapter 24: More Than Heartbreaking

“So what did I miss?” Muriel asked as she sat down across from us. Roman still had his arm wrapped around my waist so it didn’t really look like anything was wrong at all. 

  “Nothing, just the mushy stuff,” I said chuckling a little bit. I wonder if I could be an actress. I faked being okay very well. I thought to myself.

 Muriel pulled a face before smiling. “Good, I’m glad I missed that.” 

 Roman chuckled as if nothing was wrong. I observed his face to see that he seemed to be okay but thinking. If he were to audition for a play he wouldn’t make the cut. His body language was uneasy. I squeezed his thigh underneath the table which made him look at me. 

 “Hmm?” he let out. 

 I looked at Muriel who was starting to do her homework. “Stop it,” I replied, under my breath. 

 “Stop what?” He asked confused. 

 “You could at least pretend you’re not over thinking right now,” I whispered to him while I looked at my worksheet. 

 He shook his head. “Can we talk about this later?” he whispered back. 

 I looked back at him. “Promise me.” I was saying more than just for him over thinking and he knew that. 

 He nodded. “Yeah, now let’s get this homework done,” he offered a smile of reassurance. I smiled back and looked to my work. I went back to writing my page paper which was easy to do since I knew why sleeping in was wrong, why I shouldn’t do it again, and the consequences of lost sleep and etcetera. She didn’t really ask for all that but I added it in anyway. 

Muriel and Roman were working on school work that was assigned today but I had completed those in class and on the extra hour that we had. It only took me about twenty minutes to complete the paper and move on to the two packets that I really didn’t want to do. I did it anyway, of course. Each packet made me cringe and once the last forty minutes had passed I had them done and wanted to pass out. 

 “You okay?” Roman asked as if he sensed my light head. He put another arm around me making him hug me. 

 “Um, that was brutal,” I said looking at the packets. 

 Roman laughed when he saw the header of it. “Oh man, brutal for you then it’s definitely torture for me. To the fires of hell I say.” 

I chucked and shook my head. He made me happy even though he made me mad. I don’t know how he did it. It was like one minute I would be furious at him and the next minute I would kiss him like nothing had ever happened. I think that’s what I loved most about what Roman and I had. It was complicated yet it was friendship on fire. Now to only get him to give us a label... which I knew wasn’t going to happen any time soon but a girl could only wish. I mean I did have a crush on my teacher for the longest time so I could wait out this little thing me and Roman had. I guess people would call it, taking it slow. 

  “So I guess we won’t be seeing each other again today…”I said with disappointed reaching my face. 

 “Hm, maybe; you never know,” He said kissing my forehead before getting up from the table and taking my hand to help me up. 

 Once up, I gathered my papers and held it close to me. “I guess not.” 

 “Well I’m going to go check on Gabe.” He pecked my lips before leaving. I waited for Muriel to gather her stuff before she and I went up to my room. 

 Once there, I set my stuff down on the table and took a seat on one of the bean bags on the floor. Muriel took the seat across from me. 

 “So…” I said trying not to be so awkward.