Capítulo 19: DIFFERENT

Mabel had expected Holden to draw heads like he always did when they were studying but this time he drew weirdly and put circles on top of them to identify each character.

Lenny, Lenny's girlfriend, His Dad, Mom and the doctor.... They were heading somewhere.

This drawing looked familiar. It was the way she always drew and that was what she did to help him on the first day they started studying again

Was he making her sit down and watch just to mock her drawing? And here she thought they were hitting the friend zone. Way to go Mabel Cee, you expected too much once again, she mocked herself and kept sitting down without saying a word.

Holden finally finished drawing and turned to her. Gone was the sincere and curious look she had adorned on her face before, it was just serious now.

" Something wrong?", he found himself asking which was so very unlike him. He would have rather ignored her than put up with some story tale about hurt and stuff that girls complain about.

He was noticing it. Whether he liked the feeling or not, he was engaging in it. And sometimes it confused him. He never cared about anyone but himself and his family. Girls were not even on his to do list.

He had fucked a good number of them but never dated any because he couldn't handle long term relationships and abstained from them when they became to clingy.

But when it came to Brownie, it was what you would call DIFFERENT.

" What are you drawing Holden? Are you.... mocking my drawing?", Mabel asked a bit hurt about it all.

Wait hold up, why was she bringing this up? She would have done what she knew how to do best, pretend she didn't see it and not let them notice her but she was asking, wow she was confused.

Holden stared at her in confusion before staring at the board and then one more time at her. Was she sulking because of that? These drawings she thought he was mocking, had helped him a lot.

He raised her up from the seat and made her stare at the board while he stood behind her.

"Miss Cee, allow me to introduce you to my new style of learning, we call it the CEEFORD style, You fucking get it Brownie, it's a fucking combination of both our last names", he said softly and she stared at the board confused not uttering a word.

" Brownie... I really had problems with literature you know, but when you brought this method, it allowed me to see what I couldn't't. My only problem with literature was that when I read, I didn't visualize what I read, I just stare at the words and I get tired but with those drawings you claimed I mock, I learnt through them how to visualize and it's like literally the best thing 5hat had ever happened", he said and she turned around to look at him, literally surprised.

" You mean it?", she asked to be sure. When Holden nodded he saw her face lit up like she just won herself one of those grammy awards.

" Could you quit smiling, it's becoming weird", Holden said after two minutes and she didn't stop smiling.

She finally stopped but didn't voice out what she thought in her mind outside. ' I made an achievement Holden and this was my reward. Who knew I could gain more than just a Perfect grade at this extra credits thing?'.