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Staring past Anna at first, Jake managed to refocus on the girl and fix his gaze there for a second, frowning slightly. "I don't know," he said, the tone of his voice becoming more impatient. "If I knew whyyyyy, I'd be fixing it," Jake pointed out, getting rid of the sheild charm and pushing himself up from the floor.
"Interfering teachers... Kazi, Lawson, Professor M-" he broke off. No, not Professor Morgan. She was the only that Jake liked to interfere for some reason. "Saying I'll end up in an early grave... saying I make myself the victim... I have to learn ways of looking out for myself. Lawson, he goes on about controlling emotions, but it's not that easy. I can't DO that..." Jake ranted on. "And... I don't want their help, if they're just going to be like that... I'd prefer to do it on my own, let them all hate me," he snapped, bitterly.
Stepping back, Jake put that shiny, shiny, shiny suit of armour in the space between him and Anna, but so they could still see each other.
Wow. This dude was bitter...
seriously bitter. Anna bit her bottom lip while she considered what she should say to the young boy. He seemed so angry at the world in general right now, and sometimes when people got that way, it was best to back off. Anna made a promise to herself to make one final attempt, and if Jake didn't come through then, she'd turn around and leave him be. Perhaps he'd be able to cool down on his own sooner or later. Then again, though, this was Jake Upstead she was referring to. The boy did have a rather strange way of having trouble follow him with his every move.
"Don't you think they were only trying to help, Jake? Don't you think they meant well and just didn't want to see you hurt?" she asked, stepping a little closer. She glanced at the distorted reflection of herself bouncing off the shiny statue. Her eyes fell down to her Head Girl badge, and she suddenly felt the urge to remove it for the time-being. Maybe then Jake would get the impression that she was coming to him as a friend and not as a Head Girl. Eyes still on her reflection, Anna moved to unpin the badge, then stopped herself as a sudden thought occured to her. "Would you take my help, Jake?" she asked.