The face of a monster

Continuing game

"Well, I believe it's your turn to ask" David looks at mi with glittering eyes full of happiness. He quite literally shines in the dim afternoon light.

"Well," I tease him a little (he uses the word well a lot) and he rolls his eyes playfully. "I believe so too" I sigh, what on earth am I supposed to ask? What do I want to know about him? Everything. I want to know everything about him, past, present and future. "I just don't know what to ask" I admit with a voice sounding oddly close to shy. "Just tell me something about you" I shrug as if it doesn't matter. God damn the habit of trying to not get involved or interested in people's lives.

"Okay?" He looks at me as if he's about to ask me something but decides against it and inhales deeply as if he's about to tell me his life story, please David, please do. But he doesn't, in fact he doesn't say anything he just looks around awkwardly like if he can't decide where to look and then all of a sudden he laughs out loud.

"What?" I ask half nervous half amused.

"See that kid over there?" He points towards a sandbox full of kids between the ages of 1 and 10. I have too look close at where he's to see the little boy in the background with muddy clothes.

"What about him?"

"He's eating freaking sand" David laughs like if it's completely outrageous which it kind of is actually because that kid looks so stupid oh god he looks so dumb.

"Oh my god I didn't see" I admit and laughs with David.

"That was me" he says a bit suddenly.

"What?" I ask confused.

"While you were smart enough to realise not everything is possible I was that kid in the sandbox" he gestures sadly towards the sandbox but keeps on smiling.

"You ate sand?" I can't help but to laugh, David seems to be too smart to do that.

"No, I was just... dumb I guess. You know, I was so so clumsy and clueless as a kid I always fell and ripped my clothes oh god I can't believe my mum's still sane" he laughs at the memory and I smile, he's so cute.

"Now it's your turn to ask" I try to nudge him with my elbow but it doesn't turn out very well since we're still holding hands.

"How would you describe me?" He asks with his gaze far away, I don't know what he's looking at. I follow his eyes to see but all I see is trees and bushes, the ordinary woods so to speak. Where are we even going? We've been walking casually as we've been talking but I have no clue where we're actually going.

"Why would you ask that?" I try to speak lightly and with laughter but I'm too curious to make it sound real and not uncomfortable.

"I just wanna know" he shrugs as if it doesn't really matter but I have a feeling it does "and I know that it's not really a typical truth or dare question but at least it's better than 'just tell me something about you' or what do you think Em?" Thank god he's back to comfortable joking though he's not really looking at me. He squeezes my neck from behind so that my shoulders fly up to touch my ears instantly and I scream happily. He releases his grip almost immediately and hugs me from behind hastily. I turn around and take his hands. He looks down confused but at the sight of our fingers intertwined he bites hi lower lip and smiles like a 10 year old.

"I would describe you as-" I whisper and try to look in his eyes but he continues to look down at the ground "kind, shy and slightly strange" at that he laughs and asks if he's just slightly strange. I laugh and shake my head as I stand on my toes and whisper in his ear "I don't mind weird."

Now I know what you're thinking, this happened a bit too fast and I agree actually but it didn't happen as fast as you may think. So, to make you understand I'm gonna give you some insight on how our study sessions have been because that's mostly how we've gotten to know each other.

I sigh and put the pencil between my teeth, it's an old habit from when I was smaller. I don't really remember why I started doing it but I guess it's not important. There's a loud crash in the hallway and Kyle, who's sitting next to Nora across the table, laughs hysterically.

"Nice work, Black" he yells to David who appears to have been the one causing the noise.

"Thanks" I hear David's careful voice mumbling.

"Em, can you please go help him?" Nora asks without even looking up at me.

"Why me?" I sigh.

"You're already done aren't you?" Nora looks up at me with those damn dear eyes that makes you do anything.

"Sure" I sigh and roll my eyes as I walk to the hallway. I find David sitting in a mess of shoes and coats, there's no way to not giggle.

"What are you laughing at?" He looks up at me almost afraid and I hastily shake my head. It's not easy to press down the laughter bubbling in my throat but I manage.

"You want help?" I ask and sit down beside him.

"With what?"

"That" I gesture towards the mess and I have to cover my mouth with my hand because I don't want to hurt him by smiling meanly. I guess people don't get hurt that easily but still it doesn't really seem fair on David.

"Oh, no, that part I think I've got covered" he somehow manages to organise it all pretty quickly "but if you'd like to help me understand why on earth someone owns this many pairs of shoes I wouldn't say no" he draws his hand through his hair like every other guy who doesn't know what to do.

"No, I have no clue about that either" I laugh again. Why? Emily just shut up. Please? "I've never been one of those girls"

"But Nora is" David chuckles "I know that now"

"Wasn't it pretty obvious even before you crashed her shoe shelf?" I stand up and so does David. He nods and smiles at me and I smile back at him. Thank god things are starting to get less awkward I can't handle him otherwise. He's always quiet and polite, I guess it's just nice to know he can be fun and sort of normal.

"So what kind of girl are you? I mean, if you're not a shoe crazy girl?" He grins, pleased with himself because he didn't make things uncomfortable by opening his mouth.

"The one with a completely normal family and super boring life in general" a sigh escapes me though it's not really anything wrong with a normal life. Somehow I still do g fill normal though, I feel isolated from everything fun and crazy. That sucks. And come to think of it I'm not normal at all, I don't have a normal family or life. What am I talking about?

"And here I thought you were the nerd girl" David jokes though he doesn't seem to be certain if it was okay or not. The laughter comes naturally and assures him everything's good.

"Well, maybe you're right" I shake my head at his sense of humour, he's actually funny. Who would have thought that? Huh? Not me. Then we walk into the living room just to find Nora and Kyle kissing, I swear to god it's not that common with couples kissing that much and that it's something wrong with Nora and Kyle. David looks at me and sighs, I roll my eyes and he chuckles. Then it's all homework. Yep, we're super boring.

Oh, and there's that time David found out I wasn't American, that's actually hilarious. But maybe that should be next chapter? Yeah, I'll tell you a bunch of stories in next chapter!