*he smiled faintly, a purple blush spreading over his face while the movie continued to play, though neither really seemed to be watching it right now. jack laced his fingers with hers slowly, beneath the blanket, and held eye contact with her*
…that’s one of the things i really, really like about you. that you, you give everyone a chance and… and i’ve seen what people have said about it but i think its a great trait to have. in this… this world, some people are judged so quickly. you should wait to see their actions before you brand them, and you… you always give them a chance.
and you gave me one. something nobody… really did, besides my family.
She was trapped and she couldn’t say she was complaining. No, he wasn’t Harrison; he was better. The eyes were the same color but the emotions behind them were different. They were so much more innocent, more sincere.
She wasn’t paying attention to the movie but she could still hear the background music as it wrapped around her. It added to the moment, her heart beating faster. Was it wrong of her to feel this way? She had barely started getting over a crush…
“You are just..so easy to like…”
*jack smiles faintly. easy to like. yeah, like. he’s always been the guy girls like, but that’s it. in the rare moments he has tried telling a girl he likes her, it always resulted the same. ‘you’re nice, but you’re my friend!’ or, ‘are you kidding?’. he was blue, big headed, an alien, and a guy who stuttered. not many girls were into that. he had accepted that, but that didn’t make his heart hurt any less when these types of things happened. it was different here. he’d told her he liked her, but she had missed it entirely. how straight to the point did he have to be, and should he? she looked so upset sometimes, so lost… and whatever had made her want to be ugly? that wasn’t his business no matter how much he waned to know so he could offer her support*
i just… *he shifts just a bit closer to her* …i’m just me, that’s.. that’s all.
Jack Maple 