Green Hearts

Chapter 14

Panic

Don't panic

Panic panic

Don't panic panic

What if I panic?

I already said don't panic!

Well, hello there

I'm glad for you to have joined us at this momentous hour where we are gathered to celebrate the life of a soon to be dead friend by her mother or a soon to be dead girl if she panics in the face of a soon to be dead girl's mother

Yeah, good luck with understanding whatever that means

Previously on 'Autumn's diary of stupidity', Muna's mother stood at the other side of my ajar door, smiling pleasantly and looking beautiful as ever

I'd like to inform you that none of those circumstances have changed and I'm therefore still gawking at her crazily while she looks at me weirdly, probably trying to understand why I'm behaving more stupid than usual

I don't even know why I'm blowing things out of proportion. I could just thrown in my best smile and vaguely tell her that Muna went out on a date against her wish without spilling too much beans

So I do just that

My lips snap closed and tug at the sides to reveal my teeth. In other words, I'm smiling very brightly so you may need to close your eyes so you don't hurt yourself

"Hii Jen! What are you doing here?" I perk up and move in for a hug. She laughs and hugs me tightly

"I was around and decided to stop by to see you girls" her gaze flits over the room behind me and I give off a nervous laugh at how messy the room is when she gives me a pointed look cause of that

"Muna went out on a date? On a school night?" She smiles patiently and walks into the room. We're usually bantering more than this but my awkwardness has already taken that away

"Oh no, it's not that way. I made her go. She'd been so couped up in the room all week so I felt she needed to chill out a bit so she's hanging out with a friend of mine" I blable and gesticulate a lot

That explanation sounds a lot like Muna and I reversed roles but it doesn't matter in the end, as far as my nervous lies are believed

She chuckles heartily "It's okay. Just let her know that I dropped by and we should have dinner...."

"Autumn!" Jace runs pell-mell into my room and crashes into my body. We both fall to the floor and that's definitely going to leave an ache on my butt cheeks

My eyes are tightly shut as I await my head meeting with the floor but it never happens. When I tear my eyes open in tiny slit, I find Jace's green orbs staring at me

He has on a huge grin on his face and it's only then I realize that his hand is in the space between me head and the floor. That must have hurt, but I'll give it to him for nice reflexes

His body hovers over mine as he's being held up by his hands that are on either sides of my face. His breathing doesn't seem like that of a person that had been running which makes me wonder why he ran here cause we were kind of on a no-talking break as usual

But the grin on his face is infectious and I'm smiling back while very well noticing the shortage of space between our bodies and the ever reducing one between our faces

A throat clears beside us and I just then seem to realise that Jen is still in the room and she had probably been watching us all along. Well obviously she had been watching us. We are in fact in the middle of a jungle room, there's no where else to look

Jace's head snaps to the other presence in the room and only then does he get off and lends me a hand to get up

"I feel like I fell straight into a romance novel. Hello dear" she smiles brightly at Jace, a chuckle following after it

Jace looks at me for help and I mouth 'Muna's mum' and he goes 'oohh' before completely switching his personality right before my naked eyes and clothed body. No one really adds that last part

"Hi, Mrs Obiora. I'm Jace" he grins and reaches out politely to shake her hand

"Nonsense, darling. Call me Jennifer" she laughs and hugs him briefly "And who might Jace be?" She asks me with a smile

There's definitely a lot of smiling in this scene. Thanks a lot author

Good! Now I'm talking crazy like Muna. What freaking author?!

"He's my uhm..f..friend" I perk up and move to stand by my table because of how awkward and unconfident I'm feeling right now

"Okay, love. Make sure to bring your 'uhm friend' for dinner tomorrow along with Munachi" she begins to make her way out of the room, helping me rid some of the tension

Jace laughs along with her "I'll be there, Jenny" she smiles at me one more time before disappearing. Jace closes the door behind her

I face palm and lean of my desk for support. That was the weirdest thing that has happened to me this week

"So that was fun" I can hear the laugh in his voice without even having to look at him

"Really something" I roll my eyes "What's up? Why did you come running into my room like you were being chased by cops?" I narrow my eyes at him "Or were you?"

He laughs "Not really, but I do think I should have gotten a speed ticket" he grins "But I just really wanted to talk to you"

"Awwn, how cute" I fawn before rolling my eyes "You just cursed me to an eternal damnation on embarrassment. I know Jen and her family, their Nigerians. Nigerians never let embarrassment die down on its own" I slap my palm again my forehead some more times and groan in frustration

His hand grabs mine and pulls it away from my head "You're going to hurt yourself" he smiles warmly down at me

"What did you want to talk about?" I try to sway the conversation so that I can stop thinking about the feeling, which I refused to agree that I'm feeling, building in my wrist because of his hot fingers wrapped around it

Ha! And I thought I brought my A game to this friendship. Now look at me melting while he holds my wrist. MY WRIST only!

"I want to apologize for the other day..." I cut him off mid-boring-speech. My brain is too fuzzy to fully comprehend anything he's saying at the moment

¶I hope I don't regret this decision¶¶

"You don't need to" my gaze flickers, unnoticeably I hope, to his lips before coming back to his eyes

"Well, I did need an excuse to come see you" he smirks light at me, his body closer to mine in a split second

¶Lord, help me make a right
Decision for the first time
In my life¶¶

I keep singing awful lyrics in my head as I pull this rabbit towards me

"Just fucking kiss me already" I groan and he laughs

"Gladly"

When his lips meet mine, I melt even further into his hand that are holding me pressed against his body. His lips gently moves against mine and I almost moan in ecstasy of fulfilling my daydreams. Except the ones about food

His teeth softly graze my lips and my hand involuntarily move into his mess of curly hair, my body arched to fit with his

I hear a sharp in take of breath as his lips latch and move against mine, my legs curled at his hips. Opening and tasting

I feel his smile against my mouth and I reciprocate it, never once breaking the contact of both our mouths

Except right now

There's rustling at the door before it comes open. My lips reluctantly leave his to find a smirking Muna by the doorway

I close my eyes and sigh, laying my face in my hand

What the fuck is wrong with the goddamn writer writing this goddamn book

Goddamit, I'm still talking crazy. What author?