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24 Am I Crazy? (Winona)

I'm speechless. I stare at Jayden and sit down in the chair opposite him. What does this really all mean? Apart from the wish thing, which is stupid anyway, I do need to be able to get along with him from a business perspective.

There will be times we need to be out together. Maybe it is better to rip the sticking plaster off quickly and get it over with

As if he reads my mind. "A business date. That's all. Honestly, we can't always be in the office. It's just one date"

I can't help remembering the first time he asked me out.

It's junior year of high school. I watch the two fools passing notes in a math exam and one drops, floating over to land closer to my desk than to theirs. It's not that they were not brainy enough, they were just too lazy to bother focusing. Of course they had money to fall back on.

And the math teacher, commonly known amongst the students as Old Man Bulldog, is someone who doesn't tolerate this kind of behavior, no matter how much money your family has. I see he's turned around and spotted the paper on the floor.

Automatically and god knows why, I pick up the note as he advances.

"Winona? What is that?"

"Sorry, Mr. Brown. Honest mistake. I had flash cards before class, and one must have stayed in my pocket."

cautiously. I smile at

see. Well, in future, be more careful. Anyone else and I'd throw out of class. But you are the last person

won't be so

is how I attracted the attention of the

that, Jayden seemed to be everywhere I was. I'd never seen him outside of class before. He'd say hi and I'd just mumble and keep walking. I've seen the

I got and his constant stalking" became almost a comfort for me. He made me

He begs for the 100th time. "Come on. It's just one

"... Okay."

problem, I'll ask you tomorrow. No... wait.

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24 Am I Crazy?

spins me around in front of all his friends. I guess he

Yet I have the same dilemma, him asking me to go out with him and me being reluctant. "Earth to Winona! Are you going

I'm trying my hardest to move on

we'll have to be out together for business from time to time. May as well get it

you never could see what the problem was, I don't think he ever really understood how our backgrounds made it so difficult. We quarreled a lot over those differences. But that never deterred him from wanting to

had empathy for why I felt the way I did about us. guess that would have come with time, once he'd spent time in

short.

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