Chapter 28
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*3rd POV - PAST
"He is fun..." Jessica said to Hannah. "Who? Him? He is an asshole" Hannah replied firmly with an annoying face.
"uhmm no, I think you care about him and he is caring about you too..." Jessica said with a smirk on her face. "And he is sooo handsome!"
"ugh please, don't you see! He looks like a man who can't control his penis!" Hannah said in a low voice so as not to be heard by anyone other than them.
"ahaha.. yeah, I don't know how you can be with him and control yourself..." Jessica said and drank her hot chocolate.
"... okey I admit it, he is handsome, but he is an asshole. Sure he has charisma but he kind of shuts himself down" Hannah said and twirled her finger in the cup she was holding. "He's like... I don't know, he looks really nice from the outside but sometimes he's very mysterious, like he's hiding some secret. Or scared of something..."
"Ohh... maybe he is a secret agent?!" Jessica was curious and gave her response to Hannah even though it looked silly.
"pfftt.. there is no way.. shit! See that, I don't even know why he's here, even though I asked him about it and he easily changed the subject!" Hannah patted her forehead for just remembering at this moment.
"ahaha, we're just going with the flow right...his flow… that's incredible I guess" Jessica laughed and realized it only now. "But I think you're right Hannah, he seems to be hiding something... he seems like an easy going guy, for my experience, guys like that have a lot of secrets... or so the movies say."
"Pfftt yeah right..." Hannah said with mockery in her tone, "Anyway, why are you moving here?"
"My dad's in the air force... I leave every two years, we're always moving." Jessica said sadly.
"So you're always the new kid..." Hannah said sadly. Hannah moved to this town because of herself, and she regretted it. But her parents also wanted her to move because they didn't want to compete with the big stores in the area.
"I had a friend, amy, I told her everything including my sex dreams with some avengers, including scarlett johanson... then one day we are moving and I told her not to tell anyone about that, but she posted it..."
"And it's getting around your new school..." Hannah guessed the end of his words, which was where she was experiencing it.
"And get completely twisted..." Jessica said
"so you end up that girl..." Hannah guessed again
"I am that girl..."
"I am that other girl..." Hannah said sadly again but this time she was happy to have a friend who was in the same boat as her.
They drank their hot chocolate and looked at each other with smiles on their faces. "stupid mrs. antilly..." Hannah said with the smile still on her face.
"bitch good at her job..." Jessica who had the same big smile as Hannah.
"now tell me about this seth guy more...!"
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*3RD POV - PRESENT
{it was hot chocolate friendship... and gossip about that guy...} Hannah's voice sounded happier this time than before.
{good for cold months... but not for all seasons...}
Clay, who was standing and waiting for Jessica to come out of class, thought about the tape. Recalling Hannah's words about Jessica and their friendship, his mind drifted back in time and imagined their conversation.
While still imagining Hannah's words, he woke up to the sound of the door opening hurriedly and saw Jessica coming out of the door.
"Jessica... Hey jessica..."
"What clay?!" Jessica said without looking at clay and walked hurriedly.
Clay who got a response from Jessica, immediately asked about the point of all this. "Why are you avoiding mr.porter? did he know about the tapes?!"
Jessica who heard clay say that, stopped her steps and looked at clay. "Are you crazy?! shut your mouth!!!"
"I am just trying to figure this out!" Clay said desperately to Jessica. That made Jessica even more upset, "Then listen don't talk!"
"What happened to justin? Why isn't he here?" clay said because he wanted to talk to justin, about the tapes, did he do what Hannah said? He wanted to know.
"I don't know... Mr. porter pulled him in yesterday... he walked out of porter's office and vanished..." This time Jessica said with the same desperation as Clay.
"is everything okey with you guys? You two together right?" Clay asked because he thought they were fighting or something.
"We're fine okey? Thank you clay" Jessica said with sarcasm that clay caught. "I didn't mean to..."
"forget it okey.... Just don't believe everything you hear okey..." Jessica said in a sad tone, and clay didn't understand why because he still hadn't listened to the next tapes.
Jessica left and while clay staring at her back from behind and imagining what happened to the two of them.
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*3RD POV - PAST
"Why are you always wearing that?" Jessica said and looked at the headphones around Hannah's neck. "What are you listening to anyway?"
"This? Hmm this is a gift from my friend..." Hannah pointed to the headphones she wore around her neck.
"From Seth?" Jessica said with a smirk on her face, "... are you sure you are not dating him?" she asked but there was a jealous tone that Hannah caught.
"What? Are you jealous? That guy made me listen to a song for a thousand times! And he gave me these headphones to 'atone' for not knowing a song that's hundreds of years old! That guy is really son of bitch!"
Hannah said with fangs in her voice, whenever they talked about Seth, Hannah always talked bad about him and cursed him continuously.
"Do you know that this place belongs to Seth?! I went to his house yesterday and asked him about what I remembered earlier, and he said very lightly 'yeah I own that place' like it was nothing!"
Jessica was surprised to hear this and listened seriously. "Then what did he say?"
"He said... 'I told the staff there to double the price for you hahaha' that's what that bastard said!" Hannah said and mimicked Seth's evil laugh. But she knew that the price was the same as the others and that Seth was just joking.
"ahaha then what do you do?"
"Of course I got annoyed and tried to hit him, but he always dodged and kept laughing in my face. His laughter only made me more annoyed with him so I stood up and left his house. Of course I cursed at him before I left" Hannah said and drank the hot chocolate she ordered.
"Ahahaha so..." Jessica said but her voice stopped when she saw a man standing behind Hannah.
"uhm... sorry to interrupt you..." The blonde man with a piercing in his nose stood behind Hannah and interrupted their conversation.
Hannah was startled by the voice and immediately turned around "yes?".
"I want to ask... is that somy new product?" the blonde man said and pointed to the headphones around Hannah's neck.
"uhmm I don't know, this is a gift from my friend..." Hannah said because she didn't know that and she didn't plan to find out. "Why?"
"That is awesome... can I try that?" The man said but he noticed and immediately apologized. "Sorry, I was rude..."
Hannah and Jessica, who didn't know what was going on, but jessica had a new idea and said "Well, are you sure that you're not flirting with this girl?" Jessica said and Hannah understood what she meant.
"Are you trying to flirt with me?" Hannah raised both eyebrows and looked at the man in surprise.
"Wh..What? No... well you guys are beautiful but I just want to ask you about that headphone..."
Hannah looked at the empty spot with the book on the table which indicated where the man had been sitting. "are you alone?"
"Yes, I just moved here... I don't know anyone" the man said and felt strange, "I think I'll go back to my seat..." with an awkward smile on his face.
"Hey, wait a minute..." Jessica said and looked at him, "What's your name?"
The man stopped and looked back at them, "it's alex, alex standall" and tried to calm down and waited for what Hannah and Jessica want to say again.
"okey alex standall... grab a seat, we are prepared to invite you to our group if you can answer one question.." Hannah said and waited for Alex's answer.
"Okay..." Alex don't know what to do but he already pulled up a chair near them. "What's the question?"
"What is depicted on the giant painting they just hung on that wall?!" Hannah said with a smile on her face and a slightly excited tone. She pointed to the Abstract painting that was hanging there, the painting they had just hung and Hannah and Jessica hadn't had time to understand what it meant. And when they looked closer they were surprised, …..it's so dark.
Hannah, Jessica and Alex looked at the painting with surprise and they felt something from the picture. Especially Hannah, she felt that the picture was made for her, she felt a connection between the picture and her.
"...it's dark... I see pain in that painting..." Alex said and broke the silence between them. Jessica looked at Hannah who was looking at the picture with her eyes wide open.
"...Hannah, are you okay?" Jessica said and shook Hannah's body. Hannah looked at Jessica and then back at the painting. ".... I need to ask seth why he put that picture in this place..."
She walked up to the painting and took a picture, then sent it to Seth. Here's her question, 'What the F are you thinking, hanging that gloomy painting in this café shop?!' and sent it to Seth in anger for ruining his mood.