When Zack's shirt rose on his hips, Edith had to force herself to look away, a blush coloring her cheeks. She groaned. Maybe it was a better idea to just go back and study at her dorm. But after the blissful air conditioning of the library, she couldn't return to the stuffy room that was her dorm. She sighed wistfully and looked back at her textbook, sneaking unintentional peeks at the boy with brown hair.
Zack sat back again with a faint sigh, rolling the bright yellow marker in his fingers as he read a passage of text. He tapped idly with his pencil, which only echoed back at him as a distraction. He stopped with a sigh, still perfectly unaware that he was being watched.
(I'm back! I just wrote 3 pages worth of notes for a panicked friend within 15 minutes (rip), and I feel like I have carpal tunnel :D )
Edith ended up taking out her headphones for a much needed distraction from the demon in front of her. She tapped on a playlist and closed her eyes, thumbing a page of her textbook. She was not going to do something stupid this time. The next time she would encounter Zack, she would be ready with a conversation and hopefully a better outfit. She slumped further down her seat, trying to minimize eye contact with anyone near her. The glass room was a quiet, isolated place. It was quiet peaceful, and soon she was smiling as she studied, a rare spectacle.
(Rip lmao you're a good friend)
Zack wrote down the occasional number or so in his reading. It was mostly things he already knew, told by him by his contracts. He was told to write down stuff (or highlite) stuff he didn't know, but there wasn't much. It was a reading for his History class. But Zack got through it about twenty minutes later, with a puny one page of notes. He shrugged it off and shut the book, stretching across the table for his Calculus homework.
(I just lost what I wrote again XD I really need to get used to this reply format lol)
As Edith studied fervently for the upcoming exam, she couldn't help but glance at Zack time and time again. It was gravity. She would be staring at her textbook with complete interest, and then suddenly her eyes would be trained on the boy sitting in front of her. It happened with no effort whatsoever, her pupils just shifted to him again and again. Gravity.
She swore to herself. At some point, instead of longing and lust, she felt awe instead. In a mere twenty minutes of feverishly copying down notes, she realized that Zack had gone through the whole section with less then a page of notes, rather then a book's worth of notes she had took. Impossible! She thought, biting her lip in frustration. Was the class really so easy to everyone else? She had to step up her game.
Edith sighed, realizing her eyes had drifted off and landed on him again. She turned her attention back on her textbook, trying to find the sentence she was on.
Zack went on to his Calculus, taking out a calculator after a particularly long stretch to his bag to slip it out. He spun it in his hand before setting it down gently. He slid off the cover and started tapping the keys, poking a problem with a pencil as he followed it in his head. For this particular professor, they didn't demand work, but a lot of people covered their papers with work. Zack, didn't, because he had been taught previously by intelligent Humans wishing to study with someone. He got the answer to his problem and wrote it down, moving on to the second without a blink.
(Time skip?)
(Sure. To when?)
(Dunno actually-
wait could Edith do a last day study cram at the library and right when she ups and leaves she realizes that Zack is in the library as well (for random reason)
(Hmmm maybe he's in there to take a break from his exams?)
(Oh yeah that makes sense ok,, I'll continue then)
It was Thursday, the day before the exam. Edith stayed after school hours at the library, trying to cram information in her mind. She hated being a slow learner. No matter how hard she tried, it would take her forever to learn something, and way longer to actually remember it for a lengthened period of time. Many others seemed to have the same idea, so the room was depressingly cramped, with all the quiet rooms taken. As the hours passed though, people started leaving one by one. Soon, she found herself one of the last few still in the now spacious room.
The hours ticked by, and she finished by 9 at night, all alone in the dark room. She closed the lamp connected to the desk, the light emitted from it closing. Before she picked up her items, she realized that one other lamp in the room was still open. And there she was, thinking that she was the last person. She hastily grabbed her items and walked over to the figure, wanting to give a push of luck to him/her.
Zack was relaxing in a room with a book for his literature class at one of the round tables near the librarian's desk. He sat there and talked with the nice little lady, occasionally flashing a smile to his teacher-friend when she seemed to get stressed or overwhelmed. He really liked the librarian, whose name was Ms. Rae. She was so cute and nice, it made Zack just wanna pick her up and squish her like a little ball. He was helping her neaten up when he was approached, turning to whomever it was in the dark.
"Hello?" He asked/said, squinting at her in the dark.
As Edith neared the desk, she realized there was actually two people, the school librarian and- Zack? She suppressed a growl as the young lady inched closer to him, who was compiling a stack of papers. She walked over, pasting a sweet smile on her face and helped him stack the papers, quickly handing it over to the librarian. She waved goodbye and got her away from him as soon as possible.
Zack moved away with a confused expression visible on his face. He had been doing fine with the neatening up. When it got passed to little Rae, Zack hurried over to help as she nearly tumbled over. Zack didn't wave back, for he was too busy trying to find a place in Rae's office to put the papers.
(Wait I was waving to Rae lol)
(What oh let me edit lol)
Edith let out a low groan. Why must he be constantly surrounded by girls all the time. And always better, and most likely more successful ones? It was getting on her nerves. She slammed the door to the library shut and stomped out to get some air, fuming. It was a rare sight to see her like this, she almost never lost control of her temper, but around him.. Edith smoothed her hair and took deep breaths, calming herself.
Zack gave the little librarian a few more minutes of his time before he walked out with a little kiss on his cheek, five bucks in his pocket, and his bag. He walked by Edith, not seeing her in the darkness of outside. He could not see very well in the dark, as it is told by his squinting eyes as he barely dodged out of the way of a tree.
Edith gave herself a few minutes of descision, and lept up to her feet, chasing after Zack. "Wait!" She cried, jogging until she was next to him. She allowed herself a few breaths before starting to speak. "Um, I was wondering… Do you want to make a contract with me?" She said it calmy, and she silently congratulated herself for being so formal. So there was a first time for these kind of things after all.
Zack lept nearly out of his skin and whipped around, his whole body tensed and his mismatched gray eyes wide.
"Wh-what? A Contract? All mighty above you scared me!" Zack said with a laugh. "But, yeah, sure I guess." He rubbed at one of his arms, squinting at the panting woman.
(Argh me and my slow replies)
Edith flushed unwillingly, and then quickly rearrange her composure and coughed, ruffling her hair.
"Ah, sorry for scaring you. I just wanted to talk to you. Alone, I mean." She mumbled.
"But anyway, about the contract. I don't want to drag it out, I just want all those girls away from you!" She raised her voice a bit toward the end. She secretly apologized for being so straightforward, but this was already taking too much courage and she was too scared to let go of this chance.
"Get them away, and I'll do anything. Anything, I swear." Her voice broke at the end, an unsurety coloring her face. She turned, trying to hide her face using the darkness as a cover.
Zack didn't seem to notice her fluctuating blushing and idle rubs of her arm, and just kept squinting at her like she was an evil teenager sneaking off across his well-tended yard, while he really just couldn't see her.
"Right, anything? You don't really have to do anything in return for me. I kinda live off of these contracts, so I don't really have a price for them. But, yeah, sure, how did you want me to scare them off?"
(Ah don't worry about it.)
"Uhn.." Edith thought about his response. She really hadn't thought that Zack would accept this random contract, and so she didn't come up with something like that. She walked silently beside him for a bit, contemplating.
Zack glanced at her with his eyebrows raised after a few moments. "Any ideas? Any at all?" Her silence was annoying him slightly, making his eyebrows knit together with a slight frown on his face.
(Hbbbybtvump)