The Opposite of Falling Apart by Micah Good

Author:Micah Good
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

“It’s weird. This is weird.” Brennan sucked in a breath, trying to stop grinning. “But not weird weird. Good weird.”

Jonas smiled crookedly at her from his spot across the table on Lovejoy Library’s third floor. It was post psych class.

“I still can’t believe,” she repeated, “that you’ve been taking a class here this entire time—like, a couple of buildings away from me.”

He shrugged, still smiling. She opened her laptop and listened to the hum of the old PC booting up. She shook her head again. “I just can’t believe it.”

Brennan watched as Jonas looked around at the shelves surrounding them. The third floor had that comforting smell of old books; it enveloped you as soon as you came out of the elevator or the stairwell, like home (at least to Brennan).

The table they were sitting at was in a far corner, so far back that when Brennan tried to return to it after finding it for the first time, it had taken her several wrong turns before she stumbled upon it again. Only after a couple of weeks of visiting it every day could she come straight to it, the convoluted maze of shelves between it and the stairs keeping it generally free for her use.

“What do you do up here?” Jonas whispered, as if the quiet of the library demanded some reverence.

“I write, mostly. Avoid my roommate.” Brennan rolled her eyes. She was distracted by the fact that she kept bumping into Jonas’s foot with her foot, which she was nervously swinging underneath the table.

“How’s that going, by the way?”

Brennan smiled wryly at her computer screen. “Writing or avoiding my roommate?”

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Jonas smile. “Writing.”

She sighed. “It’s going okay. I’ve got a few more followers. I’m up to about fifty now. It just feels so tiny compared to other authors on the site. Some of them have, like, fifty thousand.”

“What did I say back when you first posted it?”

“About?”

“About five becoming—”

“Fifty,” she acquiesced. “And fifty becoming five hundred.”

Jonas nodded. “So five has become fifty already, and before you know it, you’ll end up with fifty thousand too.”

“How do you know? It’s not like you’ve read my work. You don’t actually know if I’m any good.”

He shrugged. “Well, let me read it then.”

Brennan’s heartbeat picked up and her cheeks flushed. “I don’t know if—”

Jonas smiled slightly. “It’s okay,” he said. “I kind of guessed you weren’t ready for that yet. But when you are, I would like to read it, if you’ll, you know, if you’ll let me.”

They lapsed into silence for a few moments, Brennan’s hands hovering over her laptop. For some reason, the words were stuck. She couldn’t think, not with Jonas sitting across from her, even if he’d now turned his attention to his A&P textbook. He was just so close, and he made her mind stick, unable to work.

“I feel bad,” she blurted suddenly. “It’s like you’ve been so good and perfect”—she blushed redder at the word perfect—“and nice to me.

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