the book shop > j.l < MID EDIT

seventy six

thursday 3rd september 1959

john

john knocked on penelopes apartment door before pushing it open and sticking his head around and shouting out, "pen?"

"in the bedroom!" she shouted back. john smiled and shut the door behind him to make his way into her.

he got into her bedroom to find her laying sideways across her bed on her stomach reading a book. she flicked her eyes up to him and dropped the book on the nightstand, a grin instantly overtaking her features, "hey."

he dropped his backpack to the floor and walked over to the bed falling next to her exaggeratedly stretching his limbs.

"college was that good then huh?" penelope asked placing a hand on his back. he propped his head up with his hand and tilted it to look at her. she lay on her side to look at him properly and shoved a pillow under her arm for comfort.

"yeah incredible," he replied sarcastically, "what about you?"

her grin grew, "it was good, it was mostly just getting to know everyone in the class," she shrugged, "but good news for me, i only have to go to college three days a week."

"oh yeah, what days?"

"monday's, tuesdays and thursdays, what about you, does your college make you go all week?" she asked.

penelope and john went to colleges opposite ends of the town, penelopes college specialises in art and design whereas because john wanted to do literature as well as art he goes to the normal college that the majority of people in town go to.

"no, i have art on monday and tuesday and literature on wednesdays."

she pouted, "aw we won't have all time together anymore."

john rolled his eyes and pushed some hair off her face, "well that means we'll just have to make the most of the time we do have together," he winked.

"well we still have until monday to just do absolutely nothing," she smiled and then frowned, "i mean i'm gonna call belle in a minute but right after that i should be nightmare and stress free."

john saw her eyes become sad but recover soon after and she rubbed her hand up and down his arm to reassure him that she was fine, he shuffled a little closer to her, "do you want me to stay until you've spoken to her?"

she thought for a moment before nodding, "do you want to stay the night?" she asked biting the inside of her cheek.

john hadn't stayed overnight with her since the first few days after they made up, they stayed at johns house for a couple of days and then penelope went home and after that he would just stay until late in the night until she kicked him out brushing it off saying that caleb would be around early in the morning and it'd be weird for john to be there. that was around the time that she started to be withdrawn from her affection.

"are you sure?" he asked.

she nodded, "yeah, the left side of the bed has been getting pretty cold without you," she reasoned smoothing out her bed sheets, "plus i got these new covers and it'd be selfish to keep them all to myself." john looked down at the sheets which conveniently matched her outfit, the green of her top and the green of the stripes on the pillowcases twinned perfectly.