everyone's youth is but a dream

[wasallyellow]

Who: Audrey and whomever~
What: Using up a gift card.
Where: Bookstore?
When: Pick a day of the week.
Rating: G

The holiday had been hectic for Audrey - she'd driven to Cleveland with her dad to visit her grandparents, and apparently, so had the majority of her crazy (and loud) family, much to her surprise and slight horror. Though she tried to escape

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[live4themoment]

Jack's grandparents had sent him a shit load of cash for Christmas from Scotland so he could buy himself some stuff and they didn't have to worry about paying a fortune on postage to send gifts. But it was on one proviso - that he buy some books in the mix. Jack didn't mind books, but his attention span usually had him resorting more to music or DVDs than anything else, tough considering he spent most of his Christmas break stuck in bed when he hit a bad patch, books couldn't be a bad thing, right

[wasallyellow]

Audrey's eyes had been focused on the rack of bargain books near the end of an aisle when she heard a familiar voice, and she broke her gaze to find the source. She was surprised, then, when her eyes met Jack - whom she hadn't seen in weeks. She had assumed he'd lost interest in her after a few months of being her friend - something she wasn't really unaccustomed to (she was admittedly a bit odd, and her interests were a tad unconventional...in terms of a teenage girl, anyway) - and so to have him confront her was a pleasant surprise.

"Hey!" She replied brightly, smiling up at him as she moved closer. "I haven't seen you in a while. How are you?" She inquired, genuinely curious.

[live4themoment]

It was strange, because Jack had been more than into Audrey. He just hadn't had the guts to tell her that yet. Then right around the time he got assigned his Duet partner in Glee, he had to pull out when just trying to read the music had given him a headache. He had gone to Mr Schue, who was more than understanding, and it was downhill from there, ending up in Figgens arranging to have his schoolwork sent home.

Now he was really happy to see her. He had contemplated emailing her or logging onto Facebook to see if she was on chat, but he didn't want to sound like a whiner. "Yeah, I'm not too bad. Things have been sort of all over the place. You know how it goes. Did you have a nice Christmas? Relatives keep you busy? I was ready to throttle mine."

[wasallyellow]

Audrey liked Jack. She liked that he was smart, and didn't think she was totally weird, and she liked his goofy grin. She just liked being around him, and the absence of him in her daily life had been, well, something she tried not to focus on. She didn't want to seem desperate, and he was clearly preoccupied, so...she was just going to wait. She was a bit too happy that her waiting had paid off, which was probably why her smile was so wide.

"Yeah! It's definitely been crazy. And as much as I hate to say it...I know exactly what you mean," she said, biting her lip in shame before it burst into a chuckle. "But it was alright. I'm glad to be home, in the quiet, though. How about you?" Audrey wasn't quite sure how to segway into the next topic - something that had been eating at her for a while - and lacking social skills didn't ease her difficulty. "Is everything...you know, going well? I haven't really seen you around school..." she tapered off. That was sort of weird, wasn't it?