Re: The Story Begins Here: NYU School Campus

[Tiger-Lily]

Oh my God! Evelyn threw a glance over her shoulder, seeing Jake quickly catching up. He had two advantages: longer legs and the fact that she wasn't capable of moving very fast. He'd reach her before she reached the subway.

You gotta be kidding me. Evelyn sighed resignedly and stopped walking again. Her hands fisted at her sides. She swung around and waited till Jake was near enough.

Then she swung her purse at his head. And swung it again into his side, his chest, every part of him she could reach, with each word: "Get. The. Hell. Away. Before. I. Strangle. You!" she snapped, swinging the bag again one last time into his side and then leaning back against the back of a bench wearily, completely spent after that workout. This kid was going to kill her!

[Guest]

Jacob had no idea what was wrong with him, along with every stupid painful hit of her damned bag. Jake was laughing! Laughing!

Not just a little chuckle but fully laughing, he thought this was hilarious! What was wrong with him?! Here Evelyn was all huffed up like an angry mother hen, and smacking him with a purse and Jacob was laughing and aching at the same time.

Some people had been watching the scene and giving odd looks, and even stranger looks at Jacob. They were thinking, what kind of idiot laughs when they are being assaulted?! A girl had said something to her friend along the lines of "He's crazy."

It was clear that poor girl wanted nothing to do with him? Why was he bothering her? Why was he laughing!?

"Ha ha ha.. ow! Seriously..." Jake said in between fits of laughter, and rubbing his throbbing side from where her purse had made contact with him. "You look like...ha... wow I guess this is why I love--" Jake covered his mouth when he realized what word he had said straightening up and losing his laughter and staring at Evelyn horrified.

No,no, no, no! No! You didn't! You didn't just....

[Tiger-Lily]

It was kind of hard to hear what he'd said amidst all his jackass laughter. But Evelyn blinked confusedly, because she'd sort of thought she heard something he couldn't possibly have said. She lifted her eyes and shot him a quizzical look, taking in the slowly horrified look creep onto his face.

Oh no. He didn't. No, he didn't. Then why does he look like that? She bit her lip and decided to spare them both the pain of understanding what he might have said, by changing tracks, "You love pissing me off? What, getting beaten up is a turn on, you masochistic prick?" She pushed herself up against the bench. God damn it, she was never going to get to Rose's place at this rate. She just wanted to go nap right now.

Anything to get away from Jake and his big mouth.

[Guest]

He couldn't believe he had said that! Well almost said it!

Jacob didn't love Evelyn, no way! How could you even love someone, even the slightest who just flat out annoyed the hell out of you?! It doesn't make sense not one bit! What was wrong with him? Maybe it was because Evelyn had hit him a bit too hard with her damn purse that he was saying things or almost saying things he didn't mean.

"No...I...I love you." It came out again and he didn't stop it! He just let the words out into the air and stared down at her. Seth, the guys. They were right. And Jake knew it too without them having to say anything to him.

Jake knew he loved her, and he was trying so hard to live in denial about it to move on, but he couldn't. He...missed her. Jacob loved Evelyn.

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She simply stared at him for a long moment, completely dumbstruck - she couldn't force her tongue to move. Her head was swimming and her throat was clogged up and she suddenly felt like she'd just been kicked so hard all breath had left her lungs.

"You can't be," Evelyn managed to squeak out finally, turning her eyes away, and for some reason those words, her own words, made her ache inside.

No, no they don't because I don't want him to be...right? - the words are right. He's not....he doesn't. He CAN'T love me! It just defies all logic!....just like our whole damn relationship.

She forced her eyes back to his. "You can't lo...." Evelyn's voice wobbled and she swallowed thickly. What was her damn problem with the word? "Take a second and think about it. If such a thing even exists, Jake, you're just pretty much trailing it through the mud if you call our messed up....whatever thing, love. Disney got it REALLY wrong if this is what they call that supposed magical feeling." She tried to force a smile but inside, was hating herself for her continued denial.

[Guest]

Jake couldn't help smiling at that but no. Evelyn was right!

There was no way they could be in love, this wasn't how it was supposed to feel like! Right? Everything he had told Seth just earlier about love, that was love. This wasn't love this was... this was... hell if he knew what this was that was between him and Evelyn.

But Evelyn was able to drive him insane, and make him want to kiss her at the same time. They could argue like toddlers and be laughing the next moment or making out. Sure she drove him crazy most of the time, but for some reason it didn't matter.

Love is accepting it, accepting everything. The good, the bad...

"Evelyn trust me I know what we have been doing its crazy, its crazy to think anyone would even consider to call this love." The word sounded so weird whenever he said it out loud, "But I know I'm sure of it. "

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn closed her eyes tightly, trying to stop her head from feeling like it was filling up with water and overbalancing. She'd already felt so winded before (particularly after beating him up with her purse), that this was just taking too much of a toll on her. She couldn't handle this right now...she just couldn't!

She opened her eyes, looking away from Jake at the crowded quad. She was trying to come to terms with it though. Jake was delusional! It was just...insane.

And she didn't want to believe it. Didn't want to ask herself those same questions she knew her friends were wondering. Why would she pick a douchebag guy like Jake, who made her life hell, annoyed the shit out of her, pushed her around, wasn't afraid to toss her around (literally) and almost got her killed because of his stupid challenges?! Why not James, who'd done so much for her that she could never repay? Jake was probably the worst idea of a guy she'd ever seen. He made James look angelic! He was everything she'd never wanted! Rude, obnoxious, taunting, hell, even cruel! In other words, almost a male version of herself! And Evelyn knew she had her flaws.

So what the hell was making her melt? Why, despite all the public humiliation she'd suffered at his hands (including all the times he'd called her a whore for no reason than to disrepute her in front of her friends) was she always caving and forgiving and forgetting? She never forgave! Holding grudges was her God-given trait! But Jake, after committing some dire offense (usually to her) skipped over all those boundaries unscathed (except where she injured him) like he had some VIP pass to her heart.

And if she were honest, she was afraid. The long silence was the only obstacle and their petty fighting had broken that, but she'd honestly expected that.

She was afraid because she'd already forgiven him. Almost a month ago. The anger had long faded. The hurt was still there, but she was no longer holding it against him. Which was bad because it meant there was nothing barring her stupid emotions from going wild.

Her head began to feel strangely light. She wasn't up for all this emotional workout! She fumbled in her pockets and then in her bag for her vitamins, and then realized they must have fallen out when Nova leaped out. Evelyn felt dizzy and slowly closed her eyes again, and then opened them and finally turned to Jake again.

"I..." she began, and her voice came out faint, shocking her. Her vision blurred a little.

A queer cold clasp seemed to grip her insides, and Evelyn felt that weird draining sensation she'd felt only once before, the night of the bonfire. It wasn't painful this time.

She simply saw the edges of her vision darken, felt her hands slip from the seat she leaned against, and then everything went dark as her consciousness slipped away and she collapsed into the first real sleep she'd had since October.

[Guest]

"Evelyn!" Jake yelled grabbing her as she fell.

Shit! He didn't think she would pass out! People around the quad started to stare even more and a few people even began to gather around the scene. Jake lifted her bridal style holding her prone form. Jake looked down at her moving a bronze curl on her cheek. Jacob knew she didn't look well why was she going out! It was probably because of the cold.

Jake held her as close to him as he could, he didn't want her to freeze even more if it was because of the cold. He turned to see people whispering and wondering if she was okay, and Jake shoved past them, "Move!" He yelled, a few people parted as he walked as quickly as he could back towards the dorms.

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[Guest]

Jacob and Evelyn had spent most of their trip back to campus in silence. The only thing that could be heard were their footsteps crunching on the already fallen snow, with new flakes falling down on top of their footprints.

Jake never really was fond of silence so he started to let himself fall behind Evelyn a few feet and then get a little running start and glide across the snow covered concrete.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn glanced up as Jake went whizzing by her.

She acted instinctively - her arm shot out and caught him in the chest. His momentum made him skid and topple backwards.

[Guest]

Jake grunted grabbing Evelyn's arm to balance but pulled her down on top of him instead as he fell on his back.

He let a groan escape his lips and as he stared up at Evelyn he got the urge to do something.

Jacob picked up what he could of the powdery snow, his hands were frozen from contact with the snow since he didn't have gloves.

Jake inhaled and then blew the snow into a mini flurry so it hit Evelyn in the face.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn had given a startled yelp when she had suddenly been dragged downwards. Thankfully, Jake made fora softer landing than the ice-coated ground.

She squeaked and reached up, wiping snow out of her eyes and off her lips and then smushed it on Jake's face inches below hers. "You asshole!"

[Guest]

Jacob stifled a grin and instead grabbed more snow and smushed it into Evelyn's hair.

[Tiger-Lily]

Her hair. Her freaking HAIR. Okay, so the falling snow (which was now coating her and Jake) was already wetting it, but STILL!

"That's slush!" Evelyn wailed, horrified, and batted at his hands. "Ew, ew, ew, ew!" Dirty slush too!

Evelyn toppled off Jake's chest, landing on her side right beside him in the quickly thickening snow. She wiped furiously at her hair and then reached out and scooped a handful of snow that had just fallen nearby and shoved it in Jake's mouth. "Eat what you just fed my hair!"

[Guest]

Jake sputtered and coughed on the slushy snow and then started laughing, while coughing at the same time.

"It tastes like dirty water." He grinned reaching over to grab snow he compacted it into a ball and threw it at Evelyn's cheek.

"There a snow cone to wash down the chips you had." He chuckled.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn grimaced and wiped it off her cheek, now thoroughly drenched. For a second, she had the funniest desire to just close her eyes and fall asleep in the cold snowbed she was in. It was kind of cozy. And she was really tired...

She rolled onto her back, opened her eyes, blinked and then kicked out the leg tangled in Jake's. "Move the stilts, would you?" As an added bonus, she tossed a snowball at him where he lay. It burst on his chest.

[Guest]

"Oomf!" Jake fell back again and was laying in the snow soaked from him and Evelyn's battle and he started to freeze over as the wind blew past him.

Jake scoffed, "I don't have stlits and just because of that..." Jake stretched his legs over hers, pinning her to the ground.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn squirmed and attempted to kick his legs off. But seeing as they were longer and heavier than hers, nothing really happened except for a lot of wasted flailing.

She sneezed and brushed snow off her face. New snow replaced it. "What, are you planning to bury us in here?" she asked. "Move it," she ordered firmly, turning her head sideways to glare at him. "Before I break your legs like I broke that guy's nose."

[Guest]

Jake glanced at Evelyn and raised an eyebrow at her, "Girl I will cut you." Jake retorted in a ghetto black girl accent.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn responded by sitting up with some difficulty since he was still pinning her legs down, and shoving at his legs. They didn't budge. Evelyn shot Jake a venomous look.

She reached over and undid the laces of his nearest sneaker. Before he could do anything, she had pulled off one of his shoes.

Evelyn turned and tossed it somewhere about five feet away, where it was instantly buried in snow.

[Guest]

Jake saw her move and sat up in his spot, legs still pinning hers. He reached over and undid the laces on one of her boots, pulled it off her foot and tossed it in the opposite direction about five feet or so.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn had lunged forward, expecting this, and caught the laces of her shoe just as it left Jake's hand.

Only, the maneuver made her dive sideways onto him and nearly break both their legs by the awkward position. She landed against his chest, propelling him right back into the snow. Still keeping him pinned below her, she tugged her boot back to her by the laces, gasping for air and completely winded. She looked down at Jake, panting out, "You can't use my own trick against me, idiot."

[Guest]

Touchè, she had him there.

So Jake pulled his own trick, he lifted his head and bit her nose.

[Tiger-Lily]

She squeaked and jerked her head away, feeling blood rush to her face for God knew what dumb reason. Evelyn smacked him upside the head and shifted off him, landing on her side beside him. Her facce flared redder when she realized what it would have looked like to someone paying attention. Talk abotu compromising positions. Luckily everyone was either in too much of a rush or indoors during snowfall.

Holy SHIT, it was COLD with bare feet and her sock was wet! She lifted her foot and shoved it into her boot, grumbling, "Half-wit toad, I hope your toes freeze and fall off."

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