Not Breaking

Chapter # 9

Next day at school, George's lecture came after the break time, so at that time, he saw Jenna from afar and she was sitting in the corner, carrying a sad face, somewhere far from where everyone was. The condition of her and her face was still the same. Georges recalled yesterday's situation, and his mind came to the thought that he was now the one who knew why she is like this.

After a while, when his lecture came, everything was going smoothly and he noticed that again she was just looking at him with no expression on her face. She was just looking at him like all there is to look at him. Soon the time for him to leave came, and this time when he glanced at her before leaving the class, he saw she was sitting with her head lowering down, downhearted. This turned George's face also to a sad one when he left.

Again, at Jenna's home, he came and sat there, waiting for her. After a while she came, slowly walking towards him. "How are you?" He asked, sincerely. "Yes?- Yes.. I'm.." She was nervous for the first time talking to him, because yesterday ended with a good conversation between them but still couldn't be believable for her.

"First sit." He said, softly. She hummed and sat there not too far from him. "I’m.. fine.." She said in a soft tone. "Why did you come to school when you have to be like that?"

"Because I don't want her to lie about me." She said, painfully rolling her eyes.

"Who?"

"Dad’s wife. She is a teacher in school, so if she is asked about me, then she will say whatever she likes. That's why." She snickered. George made an ‘o’ face, "Okay." He said. "And yeah, something weird.. Some strange.. Something like that, don't think about me because I cried." he made a confused face, "What? There is nothing to think about, Jenna. To cry sometimes can be good, I told you about it yesterday too." He explained to her. "You, cry too?" She suddenly asked, innocently. "Um, yes.. When I feel overwhelmed.. And couldn't handle things.. I feel at ease after crying, too." He ended with a smile. "Lie." She said, "Wha- Why would I lie?" He raised his eyebrows at her. "Cause boys don't cry."

"Oh, there's nothing like that, you don't even know about them." He said, leaning back. "Yeah. I just heard somewhere. They can do whatever they want." She shrugged. "That's alright too. So now you admit it, right?" He asked. "Admit what?"

"That you don't know. So now don't say that, and don't think like that either."

"And if I say that I want to know about one?" She said a bit seriously, looking at him a bit nervously too. "Who?" He asked, "About you." She said quietly. "Me? Yeah, why not? Whatever you want you can know, nothing is hidden anyway." He grinned. "Yeah? Really? Will you tell?" She asked, suddenly, with a bit of a delighted face, but not showing. "Yes." He said, casually, "Now should we start?" He said again with a smile. "Yes.." she said boringly and they started their study session.

After some time of studying, George said, "So, because you wanted to know about me, do you know I'm becoming a doctor." He told her with his mesmerizing smile and bit his bottom lip. "Really?" She asked in disbelief. "Yeah.. but there's a lot of time left for that to happen." He said with a grin. "I didn't know about this.. So, what type of doctor will you become?" She asked with a little excitement. "Currently, I know nothing." He shrugged.

"What type of doctor do you want to be?" She asked. "Me? I want to be a heart surgeon." He told her excitedly. "Okay.. reaching that point must be very difficult, right?" She asked. "Oh, just like that? Very tough."

"Could you study that much?" She asked, enjoying the conversation with him. "That will be so difficult, but I have to do it since I want to fulfill my wishes.." He said and she hummed. "And did I tell you that I'm currently doing my internship?"

"No."

"So, yeah, I'm doing an internship in a hospital. But, you know they don't even give money, nor did I complete my studies, they made us do a lot of work." He said with a sigh. "Really?"

"Of course, yes. I get so tired, man.."

"Then, why do they make you do all this from now on?"

"They do this, so that it won't be difficult.. In the coming days, every day we have to go there, besides the studies going on, and taking classes too." He explains. She was listening to him attentively. "Oh… So what do you do there?" She asked, completely in conversation. "Me, um, what doctors there told me, I do, and really, you would see different kinds of patients there. You know what happened to me once?"

"What?" She was immersed in it. "One time a man came, whose leg was bleeding so much, and I got told to take him to the operation theater and to help them there. You see, I couldn't watch that." He said with a sigh, shaking his head. Jenna's eyes opened wide, "Then, how will you become a doctor when you can't even watch?" She asked, concerned about how he was going to do this. "I don't know, but still I want to become one." He said calmly, shrugging his shoulders casually, and Jenna started laughing, "You are laugh-"

"You.. you, I mean, can be really funny sometimes." She said between a laugh. "What funny thing did I say?" He asked confusingly. "If you cannot even watch now, then tell me how you will prepare yourself, because in the future you have to see more than that."

"Oh, leave that to me. I will look into that.. You will see, one day I will become a famous surgeon." He said, proudly. She chuckled, "Okay, we will see." He grinned and asked, "Okay, what do you want to become?"

"Me?" She asked, unclear. "Yeah, you did think of anything, right?" He asked, curiously. "Yeah, I thought, I guess.. but I did not think of anything now, I don't know." She said innocently. "Really? You don't know?" He asked, "Yes.."

"Alright, now take out that book." Jenna's face turned dull, "Okay fine." They continued, and in a short while he left. After he left, Jenna was constantly reminding herself not to think about how they share talks nowadays. But she didn't know it was not more like a start to this.

Next day at school when Jenna was sitting casually, finally not troubled with anything, Emma came to her. "Jenna?" She called her. Jenna hummed, not looking at her. "George Sir, is coming to teach you, right?" She asked, mainly questioning George with her. "Yeah, so?" She looked up at her with a bored expression.

"Why?" Emma suddenly asked, being unusually rude. "Why what?" She asked, still unclear what she meant. "Why, to you? Why not me?" Jenna looked at her with a weird expression, and said, "Are you crazy, girl?"

"What did you do so he's teaching you?" She asked, putting both hands on her waist. "Look, don't make me mad, go from here." Jenna said annoyingly and turned her face to the other side, and Emma came in front of her, "Hey, answer me." She was being- strange. "Why would I answer?" She was pissed at this point, but Emma pouted, and said, "I like him.. ah, but that's not me whom he is teaching.."

"Where am I struck now?" Jenna mumbled to herself while looking at her. Just then, George entered the class and everyone got to their seats, and Jenna's eyes again got fixed on him and had trailed her eyes with him since he entered the class. While George was doing what he always did, smiling at everybody. After a while between his lessons, he looked at Jenna and raised his eyebrows for a second, and she returned a genuine smile, which came to her lips.

After school, Jenna was just ready to leave. George came behind her and called her name. She turned and looked at him, "Yes?" She asked, innocently. "Come with me, there's something I want to show you." He said, "What?" She asked, just that the question was just a formality, she could go anywhere with him by the way she was speaking now. "You just come at least."

Then she went with him. He took her to the lab room where there was this microscopic machine and you could see by placing your eye on it the small things which were inside it. He asked her to sit and told her everything about it, which she listened to excitedly. Then he sat beside her and first looked at them, then she started to look and was joyful and started telling him what she was seeing, what was there and what not with excitement.

George then moved closer and put his hand on her shoulder a bit, "One second, can you move a side?" He moved her a little to the side. Just when she removed her face a little bit from that, he started to look into it by putting his eye on it, leaving Jenna there still. He was sitting this close, and she was lost staring at him with her heart racing against her chest rapidly. Soon after this, he pulled away from it, "Now see." He said, smiling perfectly.

"I've taken the whole sight already.." She said faintly, still lost at him.

"What?"

"For a while.." She chuckled nervously, blinking, then said, "I've been watching it for a while now. I will just go home." She said hurriedly and got up, leaving suddenly, then stopped and turned. "And.."

"Yeah? Say it."

"Will you come today?" She asked, hopefully looking at him.

"Yeah, absolutely."

"Okay.." She sighed, and turned to leave, with thought roaming in her mind. What happened to her just now?

In the evening, when George was about to leave for Jenna's home, Max happened to come there. "Oh, hey, you?" Georges asked, raising his eyebrows, acting surprised when he looked at him. "Yeah. When you didn't come, I thought maybe I could come to meet you." He smirked, coming to him.

"Why? Are you that free?" He, too, smirked. "Why? Were you that free when you didn't come?" Max asked with a grin. George was about to say no, but he sighed, "Why are you adding more to one thing? That day I was busy.."

"Yeah yeah, big people. Come, I wanna take you to some place, there's something I want to show you. You know that-"

"Uh, unfortunately I'm busy today too. Some other day-"

"No no no. Don't you dare say that. Come on buddy, have you forgotten the days of college?" Suddenly he asked casually with a smile. "Hey, Max. When did you come?" Fred asked, coming to them. "Hey. Just now, man, you say to George to come." Max said to him, casually. "Where?" Fred asked. "There's some place I'll tell you but first tell him to go with us."

"Hey come on bro, you should come, see he has even come to the house to take you." Fred also asked him. "Okay okay." George said, finally agreeing. "Yeah, that's what you should say!" Max beamed. The three of them then went out somewhere where Max took them with him. The day passed like that. Jenna waited today, but he didn't come.