Chương 23: Piece Of Paper

..THUD...

Came a loud noise. It was the door of our class.

"Aron!!!" Austin looked at him furiously.

"Oh my .... Prezzz, I'm so sorry, I'll be careful from next time," Aron apologised.

I met Aron when I participated in Q.A.E.S competition. He was one among the five members who were selected for elocution. He is very naughty and always disturbs the class, even though he is a last bencher he always scores well in exams.

"What were you guys doing here, you even closed the door," he asked Austin with a wicked smile on his face.

"You must've guessed it by now," Austin replied coolly.

"Did they forget that I'm still standing here?!" I thought.

"Are you interested in being a member of student council?" Aron diverted the topic.

"I never gave a thought about it and I have zero knowledge in it," I explained.

"I'll be there with you just let me know if you are interested," came Austin's voice which made me blush.

"Hey!" Justin said and looked around.

"Rachel is suffering from fever," I said.

"Oh," was his reply.

"Missing her ?" Aron teased Justin.

Aron and Austin are the only guys who knew that he liked Rachel, he never told them but at the same time he didn't deny the fact that he likes her.

Justin ignored Aronand spoke about yesterday's cricket match.

I wanted to spend more time with Austin but I knew that it was impossible fore to spend time with him alone, I went and sat in my bench reluctantly. I was alone since Rachel wasn't with me but during lunch hour, I sat with Justin and Austin because my cousin couldn't see me eat alone. It was the first time I ever had my lunch with Austin. We couldn't talk much but still, I felt good for many reasons. Justin told me that he would come with me in the evening when I was having lunch.

After the school, Justin and I saw Austin and Aron near the entrance gate.

"Wow, it's quite shocking," said Justin to Austin.

Everyday Austin's father dropped him to school in the morning and his driver would to pick him up in the evening. I never saw Austin come by bus. Most of the students comes to school on their own vehicles. But our parents wanted us to use public transportation. They wanted us to know the value of money and time.

"Dad told me that the driver wouldn't come today to pick me up," Austin replied hoarsely.

"Really?" Justin asked him skeptically but didn't press the matter.

"I'm hungry, Shall we go somewhere and eat ?" Aron interrupted.

"That sounds great! " I said in excitement.

It was Aron who led us to a restaurant and we followed him. We ordered four plates of Manchurian noodles and four cans of coke. Since the time we came to the restaurant till we left those three handsome guys didn't leave a chance to tease each other. I have never this side of Austin. He was different. I've seen him talk and laugh before but it was mostly from a certain distance but today was the first time to see him in closure

After came out of the restaurant, Aron told that he was going to Hidden hour, it was a gaming center. Most of the guys of my school goes there almost everyday and Aron was one among those guys. Justin was tempted to what Aron had told and said and gave me a look.

"Sorry Jess, I have to go," Justin said sheepishly amd when I gave a nod and said that I would be fine, he grinned.

"Is she coming tomorrow?" he asked before he left to which I gave a nod. I didn't expect my cousin to leave me for some stupid game center but I was glad that he didn't come with us.

"Aaron ..." Austin called.

I couldn't hear what he had asked Aaron. When he came to me, he said that there was a short cut to the bus stop. He told me to follow him but the way we went wasn't a short cut. It was a lonely place and would take more time to reach the bus stop.

Even though I knew the way, I didn't tell him that he was leading us in the wrong direction. I thought that I'd be able to to spend a little more time with him.

His strides were not too long but I wasn't able to catch up with him. His one step was equal to two long steps of mine. I tried to walk faster but I couldn't. A couple of seconds later, I finally succeeded to walk next to him, it wasn't because I walked faster but because he slowed down for me to walk next to him. These were the little things that made me few fall for him more and more.

As we continued to walk, our conversation started from our social assignment and then it changed to history then universe, space and finally aliens.

The way he spoke and looked during our conversation, I felt as if he was casting spells on me to fall for him deeper and deeper. I wasn't able to take my eyes off him but whenever he looked at me, I looked away.

As soon as we reached the bus stop, I saw a bus. It was the bus which goes to the place where I live.

"I should probably take this bus," I said. He didn't even look at me when I spoke to him. He took a piece of paper and a pen, he scribbled something on the paper and handed it over to me.

"Call me after reaching home," he said.

"Sure," I replied after I took the paper in which he wrote his number. I couldn't stop to think about the things that happened, a wide smile was plastered on my face since the moment I got into the bus and even now as I am writing the events that had happened today.

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She knew that she was being a bad girl by not informing that she knew the short cut but what else could she do, she was madly in love with him. She didn't care about anything, all she wanted was to spend time with him.

Have you guys ever did something just to see your crush or to spend time with your crush?