An Untold Tale From High School

The New Found Love (part 3)

The best feeling is when you look at him and he is already staring. Have you ever felt this feeling? 

Jason was a different boy, unlike others, he didn’t like hanging out with other boys and only preferred the company of few good friends.

  He was a serious guy but the simplest joke Amy told would make him laugh and he seemed to always smile whenever she was around.

  They were neighbors in relation according to their seating arrangement. When-ever he found an empty seat beside her, he would not miss the opportunity to grab his math notebook and come to sit beside her to solve the math problems with her. Did he like being near her or was it just that he wanted to solve the math problems together? He was better in solving math problem than her though.

  That day was no exception, as usual Jason brought his book and sat beside her to solve math problem. 
Her seat partner had her group friends in the last bench, that also included Peter; so she always went there when-ever they got free period, leaving Amy all alone in her seat. So Jason would always be there by her side to fill the empty seat. 

 He offered her a chewing gum and as she was trying to solve some questions, he told something which made her laugh. As she laughed, her chewing gum came out of her mouth and landed right onto the book in front of them.

  “Oh my god!” What a scene it was. She almost melted on her seat- her face turned first pink from white than scarlet. However, he acted as if he nothing happened and quickly turned his head side-wards and pretended to be really busy in his own work.

  “But then, why should I be so much embarrassed? He is just a friend of mine and there is nothing to feel embarrassed about in front of friend,” she consoled herself. She pretented and tried her best not to look embarrassed.

   Friends started teasing them of being together but for her, it meant nothing more than friendship. At times her friends would tease her and make her believe that he liked her but her heart wouldn’t budge an inch, firstly because she didn’t want to be in all sorts of relation and secondly because she thought that she liked someone else - she thought about her very first crush though she knew he was least bothered about how she felt.

  "Jason, what are you doing right in the front, aren't you suppose to be here in the last line? You are too tall to be standing in the front," one of his friends remarked from behind. Even during morning assembly time, he would come in the front line so that he could be with Amy. Jason's reaction to everything Amy did was pointing at just one thing that he had some feelings for her. 

    One of her friends told her one day,
“Do you know? Jason bought a bar of chocolate for the girl in the class next door during her birthday, and then he couldn’t give it to her, so the chocolate just melted in his bag. Isn’t it so stupid of him? I guess he likes that girl but he isn’t able to tell. How pathetic!”

Did Amy believe it? Did that change her thoughts about him having feelings for her? If you were her, would you believe it?

What was it that she was feeling exactly? Even she was unclear of it herself. It was really complicating.

   The changing colors of the leaves near the pond signified the changing season and the passing time. The air turned crisp and the autumn leaves drifted to the ground in ribbon of red and yellow.

   Trial exams were over, Amy had topped her class but wasn’t happy with the marks she got. With so many expectations from her parents and teachers, she was getting stressed out thinking about how she would be able to live up to their expectation. Days were getting harder and as the exams went on, the lights of hope were getting dimmer- however, she worked hard, enough to not let herself regret later for not trying her best. 

  It was the time she bid goodbye to her school and her teachers but she couldn’t wave Jason a nice goodbye maybe because it symbolized their meeting again.

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Were they meant to meet again?