HIM ♕ Jason McCann

Chapter Thirteen

|Felicia Gotswami|

There were still a few hours of school left, making me groan in annoyance as to how much more longer I have to stay in this hell-hole. I looked around my sorroundings. I could hear the faint muffled voices of students around me who were clearly not interested, whatsoever in what our math teacher was teaching us. A few more had bewildered looks on their face, not understanding the equations our teacher was teaching us right now. I shook my head at their acts of silliness. It really was not that hard, we did the same concepts last year.

However, there was one with her face in her hands. Her face was lightly jittering up and down as if she was crying. The concepts were familiar to me and moreover, the teacher was not caring at all. I decided that now was my chance to go over to that student and see what's wrong. I couldn't make myself interact with others so much, but when someone was sad, it was my responsibility as a human being to check on them to see whether they were okay are not. I walked over to that student and took a seat beside her. She must've noticed my presence so, she put her head on the desk, making sure her face was not visible, whatsoever. I sighed and tapped on her shoulder lightly, slightly scared of what her reaction would be.

"Go Away." She slightly whispered back. I gently stroked her hair and mumbled, "It's okay, you can tell me." Hoping she would actually accept my offer. I was unsure of what to do. I never cried in front of others, I felt weak, but it's not like my not-so talkative self made it seem like I was weak, already. I decided to shake my thoughts away. "It's alright, come on, now stop crying, everything will be fine." I said once again, trying to do my best to console the girl.

As soon as those words escaped my mouth, her face flew out of her hands and a loud laughter erupted from her mouth. I furrowed my eyebrows, unsure of what was even happening. Wasn't she just crying? I gave a clear look at the girl and turns out it was Lea. She was a good friend of mine, but not that close. She usually hung out with the popular group, whom I have kept my distance from. She was known for pranking every single person everytime she gets a chance. That just hit me like a truck.

She just pranked me.

"Lea, what the hell! I thought you were actually sad!" I exclaimed, extremely mad, not happy with her choice of humor. "Felicia!" She continued between her laughter, "You are so innocent and cute, but it was worth the try and see what your reaction was." She finished her sentence. This time she put a hand on my back and laughed much louder, clapping her hands together. I frowned, knowing I had just become one of her many prank victims.

"Don't ever do that, again." I replied, rather seriously. She just chuckled and pulled me into a friendly hug "It's alright." I hugged back and smiled at her. We still had about two more periods of math left. I decided to make up a little conversation and take this time to finally let myself be comfortable with interacting with other people. After all, nobody would want to end up a loner.

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"Finally, we are out of the hell-hole for the week." Lea said, whilst she packed her bag. I nodded in agreement. I couldn't be happier. Me and Lea connected quite a bit today, as if we were long last friends who hadn't met each other in a while. It felt nice. It felt nice to have someone who listened to you.

We both walked together out of the school campus and just as we were about to bid our goodbyes, an idea made it's way into my mind. "Hey Lea, uhm, it's a Friday so eh, would you like to come over to my place and you know, so eh yeah?" I asked her. I mentally slapped myself as I couldn't make it seem less awkward. Lea blankly stared at for a few seconds, probably thinking whether she had the time or not. "Sure, let's go!" She exclaimed all of a sudden with a cheerful face. A wave of happiness hit me and I was glad she didn't refuse. I should really interact with people more. We took the bus home and it took us an hour to reach home.

"Wah Lau, Felicia! Your room is clean as fuck." Lea said with awe, her little attempt at a singaporean accent visible. "Haha, Really?" I asked, unsure. "Really. My lazy ass would never be able to keep a room this clean." She replied, smiling. I thanked her and looked around my room. It was not that special, it had a few handmade decorations up here and there with some lamps to make it look lit. I decided to freshen up a little. "Lea, I'm going to the washroom and freshen up, make yourself home." I told her, before I made my way to the washroom. "Sure." Lea replied.

It was a long day and I decided to take a quick shower, not to make my friend over, wait longer. The hot water felt soothing enough for me to relieve the stress and pressure. I quickly put on a night dress and went out. Just as I went out, I spotted Lea with my phone and a rather shocked expression on her face. I furrowed my eyebrows, not understanding why she was in a sudden shock. There was nothing interesting in my phone.

"Felicia, do you know this man?" Lea asked, her voice sounding like it was full of terror. I turned my head towards my phone, which Lea was currently holding in her hand. The phone displayed a picture of Jason whom I had captured during our little visit to the lake last week. "Eh, I guess." I replied still unsure of what this was all about. My reply earned a gasp from Lea. "Oh my God, Felicia!" She answered me as if I had just committed a big crime.

"W-What? Why are you freaking out, Lea?" I asked, rather scared now. "I need to go." Was all she said, before she made her way downstairs. I was so bewildered over what was even happening. Why did Lea suddenly turn pale and want to leave? I ran downstairs trying to keep up my pace with her.

"Stay away from that guy." Was all she said, before she closed the door and left.

I stood still, unsure of what had just happened. Why did Lea freak out over Jason? Does Lea know Jason? I sighed, not knowing what to do. My mind was flooding with questions.