Halfway In Love (#Wattys2016)

28 - Gone in sixty seconds.

<Update : 13/11/16>

A/N : Hey there beautiful people! Happy that I could come up with this chapter (and it has no reference to the movie) I feared this one to be the worst writer's block, but thank God I'm over it now! :)

So yeah, here's next installment for HIL and this one's dedicated to my dear brother from another mother, who made an account just to read my work. Isn't that sweet? :) 

If you like the chapter, don't forget to vote and comment, I'd really love that and hang around, because I'm hoping the next installment won't be far away :D

Happy Reading!!!

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Chapter 28 - Gone in sixty seconds. (Seriously though, there's no movie reference)

My funda for life was pretty simple. Which for some weird reason confused many people, so I just stopped talking about it out loud. But it didn't mean I still didn't believe it. For me, life was all about learning, whether it's school or out there in the real world. And I believed the best way to do it would be to go around it, travel to the nooks and corner, from infamous big pretty places to the smallest villages.

But with such dreams come consequences which my mom had tried and tried to make me understand over the years. It apparently affects love, marriage, responsibilities, blah, blah, blah. So, I said, why complicate life with love? And eventually she stopped talking about it too. So you get my predicament when someone even tries to start a conversation on this particular topic, right? Because I know there won't be any conclusion to it, just an unending debate until one of us gives, and that ain't gonna be me.

Dave started a somewhat similar talk that night on his roof. The only difference? I wanted to have it. I wanted to listen to him and a very very very very very tiny part of my heart wanted to be convinced.

My brain screeched to halt. What the hell did you just say?

"Hey dumbass, move it!"

Apparently I too had stopped in the middle of the hallway and quickly shuffled to one side turning back to find Stacy giving me the stink eye. I gave her a chirpy wave. Rolling her eyes she left and I traced back my thoughts.

No no no no no no! You don't want to be convinced! Remember Anna!

And that was all I needed to get back on track.

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"Guys... it's Tuesday today, right?" I try to speak with a pencil between my lips while I went through my backpack.

"Noo...." Greg trailed off hesitant. I looked up quickly, my eyes wide.

"It's Friday." Em answered, a slight smirk on her lips.

"How can you not know it's Friday. I mean I get this -" The pencil fell off on the floor with a loud clatter effectively cutting Hugh off.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no...." Al started mumbling.

"What is it?"

"She's going into the zone." She answered Dave's concern. But I heard none of that. I was getting this buzzing noise in my head and everything felt far off, like I was inside a glass jar and they were trying to speak to me from the outside.

"Huh?"

"Exams are upon us. She's going into the zone." I think they were Hugh and Cal's voices. "Come, I'll take you home." Cal continued, took my hand gently and before I knew it I wasn't at Dave's but in my room and Cal was nowhere to be seen.