zara. (BWWM)

17.

✨one year later...✨

Zara heard a yelp behind her accompanied by a pair of arms engulfing her.

She flinched and turned around, playfully rolling her eyes at Kelsey.

"Fuck you."

"Bye," Zara rolled her eyes as she headed toward her last period of the day.

Physical Education.

She kept her head down as usual, eliminating the risk of making eye-contact with others.

She pulled her phone out of her pocket with own hand, pretending to text someone.

Not even six seconds later, she felt someone brush against her shoulder.
"Sorry." she spoke indistinctly.

Naturally, she looked up and saw him.

Jax.

The Jax from last year.
His hair was the same.
He hadn't changed a bit.

Or maybe he had and she just wasn't around to see it.

He still had those forest green eyes, they hadn't changed.

Or they looked a bit more deep and dark.

He still had that freckle on top of his lip.

I wonder if he still had those vampire teeth on his bottom row.
Zara cringed at her thought.

Why do you remember that?
She turned around and kept walking on her merry way, reminding herself not to dare look back.

What if I turn around and he's looking back at me?

And he was.

He watched as she walked away.

The girl he used to like.

The girl he liked.

He could admit to himself that he liked her now.

Or why else have you been thinking about her for the past year?
Almost nonstop.

He aggressively brushed off the thought, making his way to his locker.

The same locker where Zara told him he had to guide her to her classes.

He laughed at the memory.

She seemed confident and bold when that moment occurred.

He never saw that side of her again.

Why?

What if he had said no?

Would it have been any different?

Would he still have almost kissed her?

Would she have come into his life another way?
Would she still have left that mark on his heart?

On his mind?

****

Zara took the shortcut to her next class.

Shortcut as in any other way where she could avoid people.

She walked outside to avoid the crowded hallways, and to avoid running into Jax again.