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Wonderstruck
Adam kept his eyes towards one of the books next to them, partially not wanting Louisa to feel like he was staring at her and partially because Adam wasn't sure what look he was going to find there once the sleepiness wore off and honestly he wasn't sure that he wanted to know. At Louisa's comments about her dreams, Adam gave a small little smirk that kind of touched his eyes but probably not as much as it should have. "It's a stressful time and am sure you are not alone. I know I was freaking out that much...and about the dreams of someone trying to help you cheat...well...you would never cheat and you don't need to so I wouldn't think too much into it."
Perhaps that was too long-winded of an answer but Adam wanted to convey support as much as he could through his words since any kind of physical gesture, even if done in a friendly manner he was sure would be misinterpreted or lead to problems. Adam wasn't sure what to say next, so he sat there, picking up the book he had so gracefully knocked off and flipping through the pages. Adam didn't want to apologize for before...he had said what he meant even if the way that it came out maybe wasn't as kind or composed as he had wanted it to be. Adam couldn't apologize for how he felt, and apologizing for things that were out of his control was something Adam was resolving to stop doing. Besides, if he had remembered their conversation as well as he knew he did, he told Louisa that it would be her decision to decide where the chips would fall, so bringing it up was going to be something that she was going to have to do.
"So....how is everything else going?" Adam asked finally, figuring that maybe the OWLs were a stressful topic for her and maybe something else would be better...
Nodding her head seriously at his comforting answer, Louisa kept her eyes on the book. Then the awkward silence stretched on, she wasn't seeing the pages really she was still thinking about the questions she wanted to ask him. Some time in the midst of that silence she'd sneak a glance at him, Louisa did not know what she expected to see him doing but she was disappointed to see him staring at a book intently gazing down at it. Exactly the way she must've looked like.
When Adam raised his head to ask, she quickly returned to her book a bit flushed. He better not think she was staring at him. She wasn't! She was just... looking at him. WHICH was totally a different thing, very different too.
Everything else. "
Well. Everything else is just... terrific." Her tone was a bit shaky from the rush of thoughts in her head, "
It's everything else that made me even more stressed than I am, I guess." Did he figure out what 'everything else' meant by now? "
I don't want to talk about everything else," she added weakly, glancing at him quickly.
Maybe deep down she did. It was tugging at her all this time. It even hurt to be like this with Adam. It was wrong being awkward with him. Wrong, sad and very very depressing. Dallin was busy with his fiance now, probably serving detention for snogging with her heatedly or something like that. Vashti was mysteriously invisible for the past week. And Louisa had no one else to whine about her OWLs other than Adam, who was sitting awkwardly on the edge of the bench and yet further than the former two other best friends.
It was then when Louisa frowned and looked up at him in her half-heartedly hard eyes, "
I'm mad at you, Adam." Because it was his fault they were like this. If it was her fault too or not, she didn't acknowledge that fact. She'd rather hook him up with the blame. Easier this way.