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nicole black
She couldn't tell how he was feeling or what he was thinking and it was driving Justine crazy, because usually it was so easy for her to feel people out and now when it was imperative that the Ravenclaw understand it was nearly impossible. For the last two weeks she'd done her best to convince herself that Connor didn't really care about her, that it was only because she denied him that he wanted her, but when Justine looked at him she didn't believe it.
Since when was she a damn optimist?
The eighteen year-old leaned forward, her face blank as she listened, betraying none of what was in her head. "I don't know, I wasn't sure what I was expecting." She replied, her eyes watching his lips, looking for a twitch or anything to show if he was pleased or not. He had seemed like he was before she had asked the question. Grimace. He'd noticed? Not the weirdness, but the avoidance? A part of her actually felt a little pleased that the boy had paid attention to her absence. Because regardless of all the messiness, she wanted him to give a damn.
"Aren't you pleased? Isn't it what you wanted?" They'd ended it because of him, did he know that? Were his detective skills so good as to figure that bit out? "I needed to think, that's a lot easier when you aren't around," it was almost a compliment, save for the dry, joking way she said it.
Connor raised an eyebrow. "
What do you want from me? Hmm? You act like you want me to leave you alone and not care about you and maybe that's just so it's safer for you but i do care." He said and was getting a little annoyed to be honest. Maybe he was just frustrated because whatever he did would end up hurting someone and he felt like all the blame of that was being pushed, in his eyes unfairly onto him.
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Kinda, Yeah.. He didn't even like you like that." He'd been wanting to say that since he found out but hadn't and it just kinda slipped out now. "
I'm gonna do something that's kind of a strange concept to you and just tell you how i'm feeling. Okay?" Connor took a deep breath. "
I like you, i Do Justine.. You're different and witty and i have a lot of fun with you. But I also have really strong feelings for someone else and i get that it makes things weird but I refuse to feel sorry about how i feel. I can't just sacrifice what i want all the time for other people and assume that makes me good." So...there was that. It was what he meant and how he felt..so question was, would she get mad?