- The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

~Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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Chapter 6:

Huey:

It was Saturday morning, Della was giving launchpad flying lessons, Donald had to get groceries, Uncle Scrooge had a staff meeting: (literally he found a magical talking staff and they're working things out)

It was just the kids at home, lena kept bragging about being the oldest and most responsible, not because she cared about that but just to make Huey infuriated, he was already tired out from the events from yesterday that he just didn't care anymore.

Drake had beaten him up again for giving him a B+ instead of a A- but let's be honest, that guy couldn't get an A at anything.

Huey lost his train of thought realizing violet's not here. She always comes over on Saturdays, "Where's violet?"He asked.

"Why? Do you love her or something?"Lena asked rudely.

"What? No I just wondered because she is usually here on Saturd-"

"Well if you must know she was mean to Webby"Lena interrupted.

"I don't think she meant to"Webby said.

"I may not know her too well but she doesn't seem like the kind of person who would hurt someone purposely" Huey said.

"Well she did, so she's no longer welcome here"Lena said, even Huey who wasn't a huge fan of lena knew she was just upset and overprotective of Webby, Webby had helped her through so much that lena wanted to return the favor but kicking violet out surely wasn't the answer, especially when it's obvious she needed them right now.

It wasn't any of his business, he can't control the world, he can't tell lena to give her another chance and he couldn't tell violet the same thing either, he has this reputation because he can't let the urge to fix it go, but he has to: he doesn't want to be the know it all, nobody likes a know it all. Especially- Her.

He walked pass his bedroom and overheard his brothers, his own brothers making fun of him.

"Oh hey look at me, I'm the duke"Dewey joked,

Louie laughed "Ahh oh no!"

He needed to get out of here.

Violet:

She sat on the floor in the library, flipping through the young adult books, not her favorite genre but she needed to smile today, she had a hard week.

"Hey stranger, school library closed?"

"Huey"She said with no emotion whatsoever.

Huey:

It was a relief to see violet here, he hoped to find her, he needed a friend "You spend your free time during the week at the school library and spend your Saturday here?" Where has she been his whole life?

She didn't look him in they eye, just said: "Well Sundays they're closed, I need something to keep me sane."

"That's actually pretty cool"He wasn't lying, to him, anyone who reads in their spare time are worth talking to "Mind if I join you?"

She smiles at him and gestured him to sit next to her.

After a couple seconds of silence Huey decided he'd better say something, "Violet? If we're going to be friends or if our library visits are going to be more frequent, we should probably get to know each other".

Violet:

"What do you propose?"She asks.

"It's very random and kinda a cliché  now but how about we take turns asking each other questions"He asks, very out of the blue, very straight forward. She loved it.

This would be perfect, they could find common ground, understand their defects, their emotions and gain knowledge of one another "Alright, you start."

"Ok, what's your favorite book?"

She thought about it, "I don't think I have one"She said, "I'm sorry if that's not the answer you were looking for".

"No, that's great".

"Do you have a favorite book?"She asked.

"Obviously"He grabbed the jr woodchuck guide book from his hat.

"Oh right, I forgot. Why do you keep it with you at all times?"She asks.

"With my family, it's the only way to prepare for what comes next."He answered.

She suddenly realized that she wanted to know more about him.

"If you could live in any of these books, which one would it be?"He asked.

"Probably L.Z Riggs book: Miss Lenard's school for gifted wizards. Did you read it?"

"Who hasn't?"He asked, "unfortunately I stopped at book number four."

"Why's that?"

"Because I have brothers, and Lena and Webby and Uncle Scrooge and mom who seem to only want me around when I want time for myself"He says, "I try to take at least a hour of reading a day but that doesn't always work out."

Huey:

They spent like a hour at the library asking questions because they just enjoyed learning about one another. However things were starting to get personal.

"Huey, you seem very calm and straight forward. I like that."

"Well you haven't seen all of me, I have a really weird side when I'm either really stressed out or had too much sugar, I go crazy, my brothers call it the duke, I can't control it".

"Like doctor Jekyll and mr Hyde?"She asked.

"Kinda, I guess".

"Dr Huey and mr duke"She said, they both laughed.

It might be funny sometimes but anything could be taken too far, "You don't have to answer if you don't want to but why do you always talk emotionless?" She had told him she does it on purpose, it doesn't make sense.

"Because I don't want people to take what I say the wrong way, I'm not good with emotion stuff"She said, "I'm going to tell you something and I need you to not make it a big deal, Huey I'm-"

"Autistic?"He asked, honestly he didn't mean to, he thought twice, what if that was wrong?

"How did you know?"She asked.

"Lucky guess?"

Violet:

"If I'll be honest, it's not all bad just- sometimes I wish I could understand normal behavior"Violet says.

"Honestly? Me too,"He never told anyone before "It takes time," he slowly puts his hand on top of hers, "it takes one day at a time."

She smiled and squeezed his hand gently, this was something, this was emotion.

"What happened between you, Lena, and Webby?"He asked removing his hand from hers.

"Nothing good"She said.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"Not really."

Huey:

He took a deep breath and smiled, he can't control violet "Ok, but I just wanted you to be aware that friends are hard work, but Webby and Lena are worth it. And so are you."

Violet:

Huey left not long after, Sunday morning came around and she just-

She couldn't stop thinking about him. No matter how hard she tried; no matter how loud her music was, no matter what she did, Huey was still on her mind. Why did he have to be so good?

She hated that she couldn't just brush it off, couldn't just get over it. It's a crush, she knew it would pass someday and that she'll forget all about it but right now he was the only thing she felt she lived for.

There was so much hurt in her life already. Having a boyfriend and wanting to avoid another heartbreak is like willingly walking on broken glass and not wanting to get cut. She can't get hurt again....not now...

She pulled out her journal and just wrote it all out.

Feelings only get in the way.