And they had lunch together, a very quiet meal. John barely said anything and only looked up from his dish to meet Amy’s eyes sometimes. After that lunch, Amy seemed to run into John everywhere she went. He started showing up at classes and exams, though only sat at the end row and rarely interacted with anyone. Sometimes Amy felt like someone was staring at her in class but as she turned her head, nothing, and she usually saw John playing with his phone. One day, John asked her to have another lunch with him and Amy didn’t see any reason to reject. After that, they had lunch together every now and then. John started to talk to her. At first, just some daily trifles, what pissed him off, what he felt interested in, as well as asking Amy about her day. Every time Amy said something, John would quietly listen to her, never made a comment unless she asked him to. Amy would sometimes ask her driver not to come pick her up so John could walk her home. He always let her walk on the inside and he’d grabbed her waist and pulled her close to him if there was a bicycle or a pedestrian passing by. Amy often looked at where his hand touched her body but never shook out of his hold. And then they were officially together. It’s John who said it first.
One day, they had lunch appointment like usual, right before they parted their ways, John abruptly said to her, “Hey, I’m into you. By the way, nice earrings.” And then he left before Amy could comprehend what he had just said.
For the next few days, John almost disappeared. He didn’t see her for lunch, he didn’t come to class, he didn’t even reply to her messages and Amy heard that he constantly fought with the neighbourhood’s gangsters. He was expressing self-destructive behaviours more than ever. After a few days feeling all perplexed, Amy seemed to figure it out why he was doing those things. She asked around and found out where John usually hung out and came looking for him after school. When Amy saw John, he was fighting quite ‘fervently’. His face got some cuts and bruises but he seemed … satisfied. What a masochist he was!
“Hey John,” Amy called out. Her abrupt presence sort of paused the fight for a few seconds until one of the guys threw a punch at John but he dodged it. John spent a little more than five minutes more to knock out all three guys, who had been beaten up pretty bad so far, and walked over their ‘bodies’ toward her.
“Hey, what’s up?”, he sucked his nose, looking a bit uncomfortable.
“I didn’t see you for the past few days” she raised her voice at the end, implying a demand for an explanation.
“I’m busy,” he said, avoiding her eyes.
“Yeah, I can tell,” she cast a glance to the side where the guys whom John had just fought with were now writhing in pain. “John, let’s try dating.”
Amy’s straightforwardness stunned him a for few seconds. “What do you mean? Dating? Like being together?” he asked, looking unsure of what he just heard.
“Yes, we can try dating, you and me,” Amy smiled.
At that moment, Amy swore she saw John’s face slowly turning red, he looked clumsy as he didn’t know what to say or to do with his hands. The infamous delinquent of the school suddenly looked so adorable that Amy giggled. John felt so embarrassed, his brain shut down as though struck dumb by the angel facing him now and no words could be articulated.
Well, if no words can be said, then say nothing. That was John’s last thought before he abruptly pushed Amy against the wall with one hand behind her head so that she wouldn’t get hurt. And he put his lips on hers. Amy gently closed her eyes and put her arms around John’s shoulders, which excited John so much he felt out of control. John licked through her teeth, her lips, every inch inside her little mouth. Amy was out of breath but John was like addicted to kissing her.
“John…,” Amy slightly moaned. She could see John struggled to pull out from the kiss and hugged her tightly instead. Amy blushed as she felt that hard rock thing under his pants.
One of the thugs abruptly got up from the floor and rashly hurled his heavy body upon John. In a blink of eyes, John turned around, covered Amy behind his back and gave that dumbhead a furious kick in the tummy. “Don’t interfere with the big boss’s business,” he flashed an arrogant smirk.
“Again, you mean it?” John turned to face Amy after the other guy had collapsed to the floor.
“I just say try. I can’t guarantee we will work out,” Amy slightly diverted her look.
“That’s good enough,” John wore a big smile on his face as he pulled Amy close and sniffed the smell in her neck.
They kissed a bit more before John took Amy back to her home.
I’ll see you tomorrow at school. Amy received John’s text as she just got back to her room. She smiled, feeling excited about tomorrow.