Better Judgement (Dan Smith/Bastille) -COMPLETED-

Emotionless Judgement

‘’Sorry’’ I mumbled, recovering from accidently walking into someone in the corridor.

‘’It’s fine,’’ Kyle  replied. Whoops.

I looked up at Kyle who had a surprising grin on his face. He was quite friendly looking and didn’t seem like he had anything against me. I gave him a small smile and he opened his mouth to speak.

‘’So, you and Dan then?’’ Kyle began to rock back and forth on the balls of his feet. I raised an eyebrow. Me and Dan?

‘’Me and Dan?’’

Kyle looked at me as if I was crazy, as if I was oblivious to the world.

‘’Yeah you and Dan! He doesn’t stop talking about you, he keeps going on about how much he’s ‘worried’ about you,’’ Kyle implied, using his fingers as air quotations, ‘’You seem pretty fine to me, but who am I to judge’’ Kyle shrugged.

‘’So what are you saying?’’ I narrowed my eyes, still not grasping the context on this conversation. Kyle rolled his eyes and sighed, throwing his head back in what came across as frustration.

‘’I’m saying, that you and Dan are a thing, right? Or have I got something wrong here…?’’ He bit his lip and his eyes widened.

‘’Uh, yeah, just a little,’’ I saw Jake approaching me from behind Kyle. Not wanting him to hear our conversation, I had to think fast, ‘’We’re not a thing. You’ve got that wrong. Did you get that from him? Yes? No? Okay. You go tell him that, bye Kyle!’’ I spun him round and pushed him off just was Jake reached me. Kyle turned and looked at me, a dazed look on his face. I waved sarcastically and turned my attention to Jake.

‘’Jake…’’ I smiled.

‘’Hey, how are you? About yesterday…I-‘’

I shook my head, still smiling. Jake smiled down at me and stuffed his hands in his pockets.

‘’It’s fine. I’m grounded for like a month but I suppose I deserve it’’ I rolled my eyes.

‘’It’s not the first time either. Remember when you were a proper rebel and you got grounded all the time? And then I came and sat on the tree branch outside your window at night just to keep you company?’’

‘’Yeah,’’ I smiled, ‘’I remember''.

Dan’s P.O.V

I watched them from the other side of the corridor. Kyle was talking to me but I was so caught up in staring at Alba that I had zoned out to Kyle completely. She was smiling and laughing at everything he said. Of course, I had no idea what he was saying, his back being to me and all, but I didn’t like it.

‘’DAN ARE YOU ALIVE’’ Kyle clapped his hands repeatedly in front of my face. I blinked a couple of times before making eye contact with him again.

‘’Yeah, yeah, I just…I’m tired man’’ I ran a hand through my hair, still looking through Kyle and at Alba. 

I watched them as Jake took Alba’s hand in his and swung them both back and forth. I started to feel sick.

‘’I spoke to Alba this morning’’ Kyle perked up. Alba’s name drawing my attention to him.

‘’What? Why? What did you say?’’

‘’Oh, I was just like ‘so you and Dan then?’ and then she was all like ‘wha- ‘’

‘’What! Why would you say that you idiot!’’ I slapped his arm and he frowned.

‘’Ow!’’ He rubbed his arm, ‘’And because I know you like her, and you’ve been spending a lot of time with her, I just thought that, you know. Plus, you talk about her all the time and I don’t know, it’s just more or less obvious’’ Kyle shrugged and continued to talk, mentioning Francesca quite a few times. I ignored him and watched as Jake walked away, making the ‘call me’ sign to Alba. She smiled and waved. Damn! I never called her.

Alba looked at me. She made direct eye contact with me. But she didn’t smile, or wave, there was no expression at all. I stared back. She didn’t look away till the bell sounded. That’s when she emotionlessly broke the gaze and took a hasty walk in the other direction.

If I’d have called her…for God’s sake Daniel.

*a/n I updated yay! I like this chapter way more than the last one...sorry if this one sucked too, I wanted to update for everyone that reads:)

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