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"Hello," she said, the black mask that had been around her face now clenched in between her fingers. Her eyes bored into mine with a casual intensity; her head was slightly tilted to the right, and although her eyes were half-lidded, the unwavering contact she had made me feel like a burning light was shining into my eyes.
"Hello, Jia," I said, saying her name as a sort of mental confirmation that she was there, and that it was the same girl who was my classmate, who dyed her hair and went off the grid.
I had so many questions buzzing around in my mind, but I couldn't figure out which one would leave my mouth first. I didn't know how to formulate them either, constructing the perfect words so that I wouldn't make the situation stranger than what it already was.
I think she caught onto to my supposed contemplation because a corner of her mouth went up and she took out an earbud, scanning me up and down.
"Do you want to ask me something? I won't bite you, Jungkook," she said, and somehow that sentence, although reassuring, made the air in my throat clamp up.
"Uh," I started, and the question that has been burning in the back of my mind jumped out first.
Question one.
"Why didn't you come to school today?"
The corner of her mouth that had risen twitches, before falling back into a straight expression. Her eyes flicker downwards before coming back up to meet mine again.
"Do you remember what I told you a few days ago? I think it was on Monday," she said, her fingers drumming along her leg as she spoke.
I placed my hand on my chin and thought back to earlier that week. A similar event had occurred, and she hadn't answered her phone for the entire weekend.
She came up to me during class to give me a note, in which she explained why she hadn't answered her phone.
She was doing an experiment, that she said she would do the plan on Friday.
Today is Friday.
"Yeah, you uh, you said that you were going to plan something today that you did an experiment on last week," I said, and she nodded.
"That's why I didn't go to school today," she said, glancing at the ground, "I had my plans."
"Oh, okay," I said, shoving my nervous hands into my hoodie pocket.
Question two.
"What was your plan?" I asked, and her head was still faced toward the ground when I said it. There was a moment of silence, the wind traveling in between us and picking up some of the leaves that had fallen.
"It was for science," she said, placing her hand on her chin as she gazed up at me. Her eyes were no longer piercing and full of sharp observation, but rather dull. Her entire posture seemed to slump, shoulders falling and hands going in to rest on her face.
It was only then when I noticed the black bag that was sitting beside her on the bench, lying on its side. Her eyes followed me to her bag, and she pulled it closer to herself.
For once, I let the ignored feeling that I had burning in the pit of my stomach rush into my mind, and it let me confirm that something about her
wasn't right.
Question three.
"Um, Jia," I started, my tongue falling dry against my mouth.
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Fanfiction"i wrote on that piece of paper because i was bored. i would have never thought it would lead to all of these emotions that i can't control. my mind is going crazy, trying to understand you and myself at the same time. the complications of the wor...
