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Friday 26th August

Dominic Richard had never been known to have to best of ideas but his decision to light a candle in the Stonehall County Library had to be one of his worst.

He didn't really have a reason for lighting the candle; he just thought it smelt nice and he couldn't for the life of him think of anything more entertaining to do. He watched with his head rested idly on his usual table as the flame danced and flickered, burning away at the forest green coloured wax. It had probably belonged to his aunt or one of his cousins but he had found it late last night and mindlessly stuffed it into his bag, thinking it would be useful.

"Is it your birthday?" a familiar voice asked.

Dominic looked up, his gaze locking with Jordan's. As ice blue met warm brown the air seemed to fizz with a special kind of electricity.

"Jordan." Dominic said as he sat up. "Hi?"

"Hi." she replied as she took at seat at the table. "That um, that smells good." she commented, fiddling nervously with one of her curls.

"You think?" Dominic asked with a smirk, getting over his initial shock. "I found it in my house."

"So you thought you'd take it and light it in a library?" Jordan asked with a soft chuckle.

"Yeah," Dominic answered. "Why not?"

"Well, there's like a billion books in here." Jordan said as her cheeks flushed slightly.

"Are you calling me irresponsible?" Dominic asked, his lips quirked into a half smile and his eyebrows raised.

"Maybe a little." Jordan replied as she bit back a smile. Dominic was silent for a while, admiring the glitter in Jordan's light brown eyes.

"Maybe I am." he said quietly.

"It's not a bad thing." Jordan murmured. "I mean, I forgot to go to school to get my GCSE results yesterday so..."

"You what?" Dominic laughed.

"Yeah..." Jordan mumbled with a shy smile. "I forgot."

"That's crazy." Dominic said, shaking his head. "Don't you want to know what you got?"

"I'm the type of person to leave the envelope closed and just hope that I got into Sixth Form." Jordan admitted, anxiety building up in her chest as she nervously bit her lip; a notion that didn't go unnoticed by Dominic who suppressed a grin before speaking again.

"What would your sister say about that?" he asked.

"She'd probably open it herself and read them out to me like a little b--" Jordan stopped short when she noticed her sister eying her from a few metres away, a brown envelope in her left hand.

"Is that a candle?" Kaden asked as she walked up to the table.

"Nope." Dominic declined as he swiftly blew out the flame. Kaden shook her head at him before turning to her sister and placing the envelope on the table in front of her.

"You thought I forgot." she observed with a devious smile, her white teeth standing out against the dark hue of her skin.

"I don't want it." Jordan said, pushing then envelope away from herself.

"It's yours." Kaden said with a shrug. "You probably smashed them anyway."

Jordan stared at the brown envelope, her beating so fast that it almost felt like a continual hum. 

"Open it when you like, alright?" Kaden said before leisurely walking back to the front desk.

"If it's any help," Dominic said, his blue eyes trained on Jordan, "I failed Spanish and I still got into Sixth Form."

Jordan let out a small snigger before looking up at Dominic. 

"Did you have Miss Alvarez?" she asked.

"That bitch." Dominic hissed with a shake of his head.

For the first time in months, Jordan let out a full fledged laugh. It was light, airy and music to Dominic's ears. His eyes lit up as he caught the bright smile on her face.

"You should smile more." he said.

"Maybe now I'll have a reason to."

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a/n: aw, cuties #dordan

For those of you who don't know, GCSEs are a bunch of exams you do in about 9 or so subjects here in England at the end of year 11 (grade 10 in America) and sometimes at the end of year 10 (American grade 9) Then if you have good enough results, you go to Sixth Form for two years before uni or if not you redo them I think? I'm only in year 11 so idkkkkk

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