7: Your Choice! / Chapter 23 (Hopeful Night)
Morning came on the horizon and it’s beautiful yellow sun rays soon enter in the room, where the young survivor of a beautiful girl rested in her new bed for the second time in the apartment. The rays hit her lids, having her wake up, but cover half of her eyes as she soon sat up and stretched her muscles. She checked the time to see it was merely 3 o’clock. Ever since she returned from Rapunzel’s home, she was a little tired and ended up falling asleep in bed for the pass six hours after spending time with Emma.
She rubbed her eyes and looked to her side, only to be surprised by a note on the dresser. She picked up the note then smiled after reading, getting out of bed and exited her room.
'Hope you had a good rest. Lunch's in the fridge under a grey lid'
She went in the kitchen, surprised to see no one in the living room and checked out to see a plate under a grey lid and took it out. Her stomach softly grumbled at the sight of the food, which was actually two slices of pepperoni pizza, having her smile a little in embarrassment and heated it up in the microwave for a few seconds. As it heats up, Toothiana thinks back over the dream she had. This was the second time she had that kind of dream while having the same theme of her, looking like some hybrid of a bird, and Jack, being some winter spirit. It was odd to her as she thinks back on the two she had. Maybe it was the strawberry scent from the wax Jack used or something in her room that made her dream of it.
The timer dinged, getting her out of her thoughts, and soon ate the pizza in the living room, while watching an old comedy show for no risk of boredom during her alone moment. The sound of an open door caught her attention, but soon return back to the tv, believing there was nothing to worry about. She was soon done with the pizza and just continued watching the show, only to have herself freeze in place from a touch and then tuned, seeing her smiling boyfriend, wearing a panda hat and shirtless.
"You had something on your face," he said then licks his finger. "It’s off now." She blushed in realization of what just happened.
He wiped the side of her lips with his thumb.
"Enjoyed lunch?" he asked, only to get a surprised look on her face, a soft blush, and the only sound was coming from the tv. He soon got closer and spoke softly, "I said ‘enjoyed lunch?’" Still no answer. She soon reacted with a soft jump when he snapped his fingers while being confused a bit. He looked at her, waiting for an answer, having to received a variously nod before he stopped her with one finger, smiling at her.
"One nod is just fine with me," he said before removing his finger then kissed her cheek, before getting up and went to the kitchen, the used plate she had in his hand now. As Jack head to the kitchen to clean the plate, she think back over another thought that still made her curious during the time being yesterday, even after the gift. She even brought her hand up to look at the charm bracelet he gave her then look up at the shirtless man, washing the dishes.
She still thinks over it. It was the number one question that she wasn’t able to say out loud. It was a theory of thinking that he could she lied her, or was just protecting her to tick Pitch off, or give off good impressions towards his cocky friends. Toothiana then slowly got up, making up her mind, then walked towards him with her head down, giving no intention to show her blushing embarrassment. She then brought up a hand again and touch his side.
Only to receive a surprising state. Laughter.
"Oh! Don’t touch there! I’m ticklish!" He said, softly laughter while one hand holds his side. He then looks up at her while she did the same: her serious expression caused his smile to slowly fall off his face. "What’s wrong? Anything happened? Did you get a nightmare or something?" He asked, but didn’t expect this one.
"You heard me," she said, soft and nicely, but Jack heard the tone that had curiosity and seriousness in it. "Why do you like me? And you better tell the truth on it? I’m trying to figure out why you like a girl who has a weird hairstyle, got a obsession over teeth, and I don’t really call myself attractive. Or pretty. So,Jack, tell me. What is it about me that you like? My body? My eyes? My hair? What is it cause I can’t figure out everything I know," she said, receiving a moment of silence from the young man, who suddenly turn from the sink.
In his eyes was serious and truth in them as one hand had held his weight while he sighed then looked away, still in the same position.
She didn’t expect that answer as she looked surprised, but let him continued.
"All my life," he began. "I was involved dating so many girls, wishing to gain so much popularity. I didn’t care for appearance, personality, or anything. I just thought ‘get a girl, then gain attention". That’s what I always thought ever since I went to high school then to college. And I’m still surprised I even got in." He chuckles softly, but the smile ended and soon sinked himself to the floor and grabbed his legs, bringing them to his chest.
"But that changed. When you came," he said, looking at the ground while Toothiana stood still. "I didn’t understand so much. I seen girls like that can stand up to guys and say ‘no’, while also being shy over talking to others or something. But, when I first saw you, I didn’t think of anything else in the world. I had to admit; I was a pervert idiot of a bastard back then and now, but… I can’t help but to know that I didn’t want to do that on you. It was like, like you were an living angel, and I didn’t have the chance to hurt you or just date you. There were other girls in the school that would just go out with any guy, so I dated them, but also broke up with them."
"But those girls you dated were more beautiful, more hot, sexy, and confident on going up to guys like you. Why would you break with those beautiful girls just like that?" She asked, confused. He turned to her, annoyance in his eyes.
"Because some wanted sex. Because some wanted attention. Because some wanted to be the most perfect and lucky girl in the world to have a guy like me."
Toothiana was silent through his harsh-sounding words as he looked away from her and held his legs closer to his chest. She couldn’t even notice the embarrassment on his face as his eyes now showed it while a blush was on his face. He shut his eyes before yelling aloud.
"Because they’re not you! Every girl I dated, even the ones I liked when I was younger, always changed! I hate it! I hate them doing it just for impression and attention! They’re not you! You can still be yourself after all that abuse you received from that bastard! You survive so much pain and still had hope, fun, dreams, wonder, and fun inside you still! You’re just…."
He looks at her, tears in his eyes, his embarrassment still in his eyes and the blush still there. “Perfect.”
Silence came between the shocked school girl and the embarrassed school jock. This was a first for the both of them since he never express something like this, and she never heard anything from him, not even from a girl he dated before her in college.
"I know nobody’s perfect. I know that there’s no perfect one in the world. I know there’s no perfect world due to the stupid crap people have been making! But.., the only reason why you’re perfect.. Is because you’re perfect. In my heart and soul to you."
Toothiana felt tears came up in her eyes as Jack brought his head down to cover his face, but he didn’t cry. He was too embarrassed to do anything else. That was it. Every word he said spoke the truth about the warm feeling he gets from her. Everything that he hid on the good was let it into one thing, and it was Toothiana that he spoke half of the truth about his life and about her. Her eyes wasn’t the reason. The body type didn’t matter. Not even her hair was the attention. Hey, his own hair can cause many attentions, even the ones visiting the school, believing he had it for a dram role or something! But, he spoke out the truth, something that a jock with a rude reputation in school had let out just to that certain girl that he loved more than ever. Her kindness, her bravery, and her confidence were the reasons on liking her, but he didn’t want to be turn down that easy due to his reputation.
He had to thank Sandy soon for having her being the tutor.
Yet, also be thankful for not understanding a damn word his teacher said!
Silence was in the room, and he was confused by it. She knows that he loves her, and he knows she loves him. What’s with the silence? He lifted his head slowly before fully looking up and got surprised by the lip contact by the tear-shedding girlfriend, holding his cheeks. He soon kissed back, letting his legs go and touched her wrists. They pulled back then Jack brings in a hug to comfort her, letting her cry more as she giggled a couple times while crying on his bare chest.
"I love you, Jack. I love you, I love you, I love you," she said, repeatedly, having him softly chuckle and hug her more while she held back, hearing his heart beating faster which made her giggle. A comfortable silence came between the two before one of them broke the silence.
"…I love you, too." That made Toothiana smile more and snuggle on his chest more, wiping her tears away.
"You do know that I’m shirtless still, right?"
Silence came between them again, having Jack look down and then laugh loudly at the view of his girlfriend’s face, being a tomato. Her embarrassment had himself hug her more, having her squeak softly in embarrassment as she try to get out of the grasp.
"I’m never letting you go."
"What if you need to take another shower or something?"
"Hey, you saw me half naked before. I won’t touch you, but I’m not letting you go. You’re too cute to let go." She squeaked again, having Jack chuckle and kissed her cheek. She then looked up at him, having him look back, until they both were in a lip lock again, sitting on the kitchen floor, giving the love for each other
They didn’t notice the view of Emma, taking silent pictures on her phone while holding in giggles of happiness before heading back to her room.
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