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Chapter eleven - Jenny
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"Come on in, quickly." Jenny opens her front door, pulling me through and closing it behind her. She's gotten very good at doing that without being seen from outside which is weirdly impressive to me.Ever since I declared my interest in her on the Jonathan Ross show, I've been followed even more than usual, so I've upped the disguise to avoid being spotted when I come to visit her. I'm lucky it's cold enough for woolly hats and scarves so I blend right in."Fish and chips, I definitely want proper greasy fish and chips tonight. I might even get gravy too. Oooo or curry sauce." The voice in the hallway has her stopping on the spot, her eyes wide with panic and this I'm less impressed by. She's still keeping me secret from her friends, even the couple I accidentally met before. The voices get quieter as they go the opposite way and once we hear a door shut, she relaxes, tugging me along to her room and locking the door behind us."Hi." She finally smiles at me, breathing a sigh of reli
Jenny: Branston High Series Chapter thirteen - Jenny
"Oh Jenny, I'm so disappointed, I thought he was just a one night stand. I was so proud." Luke grins as he dodges Cleo who is trying to shut him up. "I've renounced my manwhore ways, but I thought I had converted you, I was going to share tips and live vicariously through you.""Vicariously?" I grin at him, surprisingly relieved that Kenji meeting my friends went better than anticipated. "Did I not use that right?" He stops and Cleo manages to grab him, slapping her hand over his mouth."No, no, you actually did. I'm just surprised you used it at all." I catch the pillow he launches in my direction, then another and somehow a third between the two and toss them back, hitting him in the side of the head. "Don't mess with me, I'm happy and I've got mad ninja skills.""You do seem happy." Elsie walks into the kitchen and grabs a banana. She's very slowly coming around to us all and we make an extra effort to include her whenever she ventures out without Billy by her side."More importa
Jenny: Branston High Series Chapter fourteen - Kenji
I wake up with a dead arm, my fingertips tingling but feeling foreign on my arm which is acting like it's doubled in size overnight and Jenny's housemate is singing loudly again as he walks past her room while his girlfriend tries hard to make him be quiet. I'm not sure why she still tries, I've only slept here a dozen or so nights and even I can tell it doesn't work, in fact, it might just make it a little bit worse. "I hate him so much." Jenny moans, curling into me further and releasing the pressure on my arm which is then swamped with the prickle of pins and needles as it comes back to life. "It's five in the morning... On a Saturday. It's like he has to punish those of us who aren't masochistic enough to voluntarily get up that early." "Shh he's gone now, go back to sleep." I whisper, stroking her hair with my normal, tingle free hand, loving the feel of her snuggled into my chest. It's been so good the last few weeks, we've hung out with her friends quite a bit and even her si
Jenny: Branston High Series Chapter fifteen - Jenny
Kenji is not a morning person, if anything I would say he's an anti-morning person, he's happy to stay up until the early hours, but getting him out of bed before ten o'clock is challenging. He pretends not to notice when I'm trying to escape his clutches and when I finally manage to get up, he burrows deep under the quilt and fakes being asleep, therefore he apparently can't hear me talking to him. This also means that the first thing he wants to do when we get into town is to go and get brunch, which seems to be fairly difficult when he's also trying to keep himself disguised from being recognised. "Oh em gee, are you Kenji from Kokoro?" A woman shoves past me to sit beside Kenj as soon as he removes his scarf. "Nanishiteruno." (What are you doing?) Kenji shouts suddenly, standing up and taking my hand. "Daijōbu desu ka?" (Are you ok?) I have no idea what he's saying but I'm guessing it's Japanese and am incredibly impressed that he can speak it. I don't know why I never assumed
Jenny: Branston High Series Chapter sixteen - Kenji
Jenny left early this morning for a class, from my room in the hotel, after we ordered breakfast and had it together in bed. I hadn't planned to, but I fell back to sleep once she was gone, waking up to the noise of my friends playing music in the communal space."Kenj, I didn't realise you were still here? Thought you'd gone out early this morning." Harrison said, a pen in his hand as well as his acoustic guitar in his lap. "I know we're meant to be on break for Christmas, but it's been a few weeks now and I was itching to play something.""Nah, it's all good, what've you got so far?" I sit on the arm of the chair and listen to the tune he's written so far. For the next few hours we're in "musicland", a place where nothing but the room being on fire could tear us away from what we're doing and I'm fairly certain even then we'd still be working out lyrics and chords while we watched the fire brigade doing their thing."What's going on for dinner? Shall we order in or go out?" Laurie a
Jenny: Branston High Series Chapter seventeen - Jenny
I'm not normally the paranoid type, but I'm pretty sure people are talking about me. I've been in the library since my last lecture and about an hour ago there was an influx of girls filling the tables near mine. I'm trying to tell myself it's because it's nearly the last week before the Christmas break, but about three quarters of the people in here seem more interested in what I'm doing than the books right in front of them.When the same girl looks my way for like the fiftieth time, whispering something to the girl beside her, I don't care if it's paranoia or not, I know I'm too distracted to get any work done here and I'll have to risk there not being a party at mine so I can try to get a good chunk of my work done there.Packing up my stuff quietly, I hear the footsteps getting closer before I look up and see three girls, including the one who couldn't stop looking at me, standing beside me."Hi, you're Jenny Kaur, right?" The peeping Tom says, smiling from ear to ear. "I'm Rache
Jenny: Branston High Series Chapter eighteen - Kenji
Jenny snores when she's drunk! It's nearly one in the afternoon and I'm lying here watching her sleep, face down on my pillow, mouth open with a little damp patch from her drool, hair standing up at weird angles and sounding like an angry wildebeest. It should be unattractive, but somehow, it just makes me like her more. She's completely and utterly real, every crazy thing about her is her and I can't get away from the fact that I really like her.A light knock at my door has me slipping carefully and quietly from the bed. "You do know it's my room you knocked on?" I say to Laurie when he looks surprised to see me."Yeah, yeah, I just…" He peeks around my door and sees Jenny still asleep. "Fuck, dude, I thought that was you snoring.""Nah, she was beyond drunk last night." I grin looking back at her and feel Laurie watching me, an odd sort of grimace on his face. "You ok?""Fuck, you really like her don't you? Shit… I don't want to be the one to do this." He gestures for me to follo
Jenny: Branston High Series Chapter nineteen - Jenny
Don't look, Jeniliya! Don't. Don't look! Don't look!It's no good, morbid curiosity is eating away at me. I know whatever they've written is going to be bad, but I can't help myself needing to know how bad. It's like when I was seven and I skidded across concrete on my bike. All the colour drained from Priya's face when she saw my leg but it didn't hurt until I saw the blood running down my leg and soaking into my frilly white socks.I know I'd be better off not seeing what's been written and the cruel comments posted by the public, but for some reason, I can't stop myself.Checking that Kenji is still asleep beside me, I give in to temptation and grab my phone. I don't even need to search, somehow my phone knows I'm trying to torment myself and has it under the headlines that may interest me. Who is Jeniliya Kaur? Kokoro singer's mystery lover revealed!I breathe out a sigh of relief at the article, it's not great, but it's more factual than anything else, my name, my age, where I g
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