77 Her Inner World (1/2)

Linri asked help from Jaime but he had not specified what he needed help with which kinda confused her. Just what could be so important that he had to interrupt her training? That was rude. Still, she had a sweet spot for this devilishly handsome boy so it was not she was gonna complain anyway.

They both went inside and took a shower. When she was done drying her hair Jaime walked into Linri's room to find him sleeping at his chair in front of the computer. At first, she didn't know what to do. He first called her for help and now he was sleeping and at a chair at that.

Jaime slowly walked towards him. Each of her steps was light as a feather, afraid that she would accidentally wake him up. It was not always that she could catch him this defenceless. Once she was close enough to hear him breathing Jaime leaned over to his face slowly lifting up his bangs. He had a serene expression, different from his usual charming and a little bit of evil aura. Well, it can also be said that this serene face of his also had a charm of its own.

Jaime smiled gently upon seeing this peaceful side of him. Wondering how everything came up to this point. Just a few months ago he was just some guy she knew from the internet and now she liked him. However, it was not always fine and dandy between them. She knew that for some reason Linri was pushing her away not letting her get too close to him. The worst thing was she didn't know why.

Jaime was beautiful. This was in no way boasting or arrogance, it was a fact. A fact that came from creating her character that way. So considering that he should be attracted to her as much as she was attracted to him.

Then again why was she attracted to him in the first place? Just because he was handsome? No, if it was just that she would have been repulsed by his attitude at this point. She was in no way happy with getting hurt from his sharp words over and over again either. Still, she couldn't help herself and this hurt her even more.

Jaime's gentle smile was slowly gone, getting replaced by a frown.

She let go of his bangs and headed for his bed laying there. She didn't care if he woke up from the noise at this point. Despite that Linri was still sleeping soundly. Jaime continued to think about the reason why she liked Linri in the first place.

When he was not being a douche bag intentionally, Linri was smart, witty, funny and no matter how much he tries to hide it he was a caring person but he also had a calculative and a selfish side. Maybe he was also a little bit of nuts in the hand and there was his arrogance. She also did not know anything about his past. There was this shroud of mystery surrounding him and she liked it. She literally liked every aspect of his personality including the bad ones. At least the fact that he had bad sides showed that this was the real Linri or rather Max.

Because she very well believed that if he wanted to Max could create a persona and act it out without anyone noticing. The thought of this disturbed her. Everything this guy does had to be over the top. If he wants to lie he creates a whole tight backstory without any loopholes. If he wants to deceive someone he would create a whole new persona with a complete background. So this begged the question if he wanted to deceive Jaime what would be his goal? Make her fall in love with him? He already achieved that and if it really was that he would not be pushing her away now. So this could only mean this was his real personality, at least she hoped it was.

Then why did she like him? Was it because she was now Jaime? In the game, Jaime and Linri were a couple so it would make sense to feel attraction towards each other. Jaime thought it was part of the answer but not the whole of it. After all, there was one giant hole in this theory. If it was because they were a couple in the game then why didn't Linri like him? Why was it just one-sided attraction?

The more she thought about her feelings the more confused she became. Just why thinking about feelings were so hard? Couldn't there be an answer to all love problems? I don't know like a book maybe?

It also didn't help Jaime's case that this was the first time she was feeling like this. It was not like she was inexperienced in love. She did have a boyfriend... once. She remembered the time she spent with him and noticed that she never felt like she was feeling right now. It was annoying. It was so annoying that Jaime suddenly got the urge to just get up, strangle Linri and ask him why.