Health Class❦a.i au

5; fire starter

ella

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day 5

it's like the feeling is mutual... Isn't that the signal that two people are in love? Or is it just mutual that we have respect for each other? I'm so confused. Should I even care about this now, or not?

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"This should be easy for you!" Ashton is laughing, trying help me remember what four nutrition items we need in our diet to stay healthy. He's over my house to help study for our health exam the following day, both of us idiotic to think to cram information the day before.

"I can't remember," I giggle, hiding my face behind my hands. He puts down a flash card in the "No-Go" pile, the pile we'll never to get revisit because we're laughing too hard. His grin is wide, trying to look for another card to study and I can't help but look at him while he does. Normally, I'd be looking somewhere else, heck, normally, this wouldn't be happening.

"We're both gonna fail," he jokes, looking up at me laughing.

"At least we fail together," I laugh with him, leaning over to bump his shoulder with mine. His arm goes around my shoulders and he squeezes me reassuringly.

"We aren't gonna fail, you know that, right?" He whispers into my ear and I can't help but look over at him. Our faces are both as close as they've never been, looking into each other's eyes and both our mouths agape- wondering how we got this close.

I'm trying not to think about how or if I'm going to kiss him, and before I think about it, I pull away quickly, blushing and go back to staring at my textbook, acting as if I were actually reading. It's fake and the air around us both is very awkward, like we need to say something but we don't know how to word it.

"Okay, what's most important for healthy relationships?" He asks, not looking at me but at the flash card. It's like we both wince, and I bite my lip before trying to answer.

"Uh, mutual feelings and respect?" I form it as a question, not really sure if I got it.

"You drive me crazy, you know? You keep dropping hints and it's so damn hard to figure out if what we have is forming into something mutual or not," Ashton suddenly vents out and my body freezes. I can't meet his hazel brown eyes, but I know the temperature on my cheeks is heating up rapidly.

That, was random. And half of me knows that I am truely falling for him the classic style, while the other half wants to deny and push him away. "I feel mutual. . ."

"Alright, we can stop using the word mutual," he laughs shortly. He makes me meet his eyes and I don't know what I see in them. Sarcasm, hope, love, confusion? "Ella, it seems so fast, I moved here about a month ago and ever since I sat next to you that day in health, I was smitten and wanted to help you, with everything, believe it or not."

Believe it or not? I did.