Closed It's Better to be Alone, Right? PV Quentin Gagné

Mentioning: @Della Barfield (and also mr Aaron Jones)

The chilled autumn air brushed by, lightly blowing Akari's loose baby hairs all over her face. She sat sideways down on a bench, leaning back slightly, crossing one leg over the other and flipping through the pages of her book to find the last page she was on. This lovely fall afternoon was also the day that the other magical schools arrived and so she was doing her absolute best to avoid everyone and everything and finding a nice quiet place outside was her best bet.

A couple weeks had already gone by since everything with Aaron, and Akari would be flat out lying if she said she was over it. She felt hurt and the feeling was not just going away. Perhaps subsiding but still lurking around whenever his stupidly cute face showed up. She just did not understand why after finally letting someone in her world after her dear Jess, all this happened. It was not fair.

For now, she did not really want to talk to anyone anymore. She had already kept to herself most of third year until HIM, so what was the problem with returning back to her old ways. Well, this time there was something different about her. It was not just a matter of being quieter and more introverted anymore. She just was now actively choosing not to engage with many people. It was better that way, right?

Why had this situation with Aaron affected her so much? She really could not answer that. Of course she had known all along what he was really about but it did not properly set in until she had seen him with that girl. She truly cared about him, even now which she hated herself for, and the feelings were obviously not mutual, so it stung to say the least. But whatever, she had her time to mope, now her goal was to forget about him completely and keep her mind off of anything related to him.

With that she let out a sigh. In all honesty she did not mind being alone in the slightest, it was rather calming and she liked that. Although now it would be much harder with all the other students hustling and bustling about, especially of the murmurs and whispers of the upcoming annual fall ball buzzing around constantly. It was frankly rather annoying. Initially she had thought there was no way in hell she was going to go, because she had not appeared at one of those events in quite some time and she intended to keep it that way, but ever since her silly little situationship had come to an end Akari had a lingering feeling that she had to go, solely to prove that she was no longer bothered by it. She hated the thought that people probably thought her lack of interest in anything but her own books was a reflection of the fact that she was heartbroken, and wanted to show otherwise.

But did she want to really go through all that effort? Hm, she did not know, and though the ball was around the corner, it was a problem for her tomorrow self. For now she desperately wanted to get back to the world of stories.