That Awkward Moment

Chapter Six

I moved towards the desk, aware of the daggers that every female in the classroom was throwing my way. I shivered as I sat down, smelling his intoxicating perfume. God this boy was just too perfect. I hate him a little for that. 'Down girl' my inner dialogue purred. I huffed into the air, tugging at my ponytail as I watched a cute blonde guy taking his seat beside me. 'Not as cute as Chris though'. Oh for the love of God, can you not?

The teacher started the class, introducing our assigned books. I watched Chris grin beside me as he flipped through the list. "What are you smiling about? This is English you know that right?" I threw him a quizzical eyebrow. He fixed his icy blue eyes on me, freezing me to my chair. It was out sounding how he could switch from the darling he was around Lilly, to the intense, cool, and calculated person devouring my entire being. 'Or maybe that's just you, letting a boy take hold of you'. 

"You do realize that I'm from London right, the city of literature and theatre, I've read all of these. Pride and Prejudice, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, ...." And he went on telling me about the plot and names of the authors without looking at the list that provided the information. I gritted my teeth annoyed at his intellect. No no, cross that, annoyed at his pure arrogance!  I mean don't get me wrong I love books, they're my life, but knowing that he knew more than I just pissed me off. 'Feeling threatened?' My inner voice purred again, I ignored her. 

I rolled my eyes. "Ouf, someone has way too much time on their hands. No girl to keep you otherwise occupied? Ever?" That shut him up real good. He flashed me a quick smirk, seemingly amused and replied: "It's not about the amount of time but the quality love". Ugh, what a douche thing to say. Arrogant bastard. 

I tilted my head to the side quizzically, "by the way, if you have mathematics with me, where were you today during the third period", I questioned him, very suspicious.

He shrugged "Lilly showed me around, the principal welcomed me". I nodded looking away, embarrassed. I spent the last 40 minutes of class time flipping through the list, memorizing the information on the books, secretly begging for the bell to ring.

When it finally did, I jolted upward, running toward the open door to get into the hallway, but I was met with the huddle of teenagers cramping the hall and was pushed back into the class again. Oh boy, how the heck was I to escape, how was it that every time I got up early from my desk, still there were some people who ran into the hallways faster than me, sorcery if you ask me. A real reflection of youth's love for school and education.

Suddenly I felt a familiar someone pressed up against my behind, and I rolled my head back, it rested against a strong chest, and suddenly I was staring into intense blue eyes, his eyes. I squeaked as I felt a hand roughly grab at my waist, and I felt the all too familiar and delicious electricity melting my insides. He pulled me against him, and for a second I was about to yell up at him to keep his hands to himself. 'Or, or, now hear me out, yell at him to grab you harder' My inner voice said, always one to interrupt at worst times. Shut up! He pulled me with him into the crowd. Suddenly I was happy that he was protecting me, or else I would've been smushed against the walls. All the fighting was out of me, since my attempt at losing Chris earlier, and a ping of guilt wrapped me, but I let it drop, enjoying my closeness to him. 

Chris let me go when I told him we had reached my locker. "Thanks, couldn't have had survived that whole mess without you." He put his hand through his silky black hair, messing it up, and my fingers twitched to do the same. "No problem, always happy to save a damsel in distress."

"I could've had done that myself, but you didn't give me much choice now did you?" I shot back, pissed off at the fact that he had called me a damsel in distress, I was nothing like them, unlike them, I stood up for myself and kicked the prince on the horse in the groin laughing and walking away, saying what took him so long and that I've already killed the dragon and fled from the tower. I mentally smirked at the image.

"Alright then, next time I won't give a damn", he shot back, annoyance clearly showing on his beautiful face. "Fine", I muttered as I slapped my locker door, much harder than necessary. I started walking towards the exit, desperate to get away from him.

"Is Lilly single?", the question made me stop dead in my tracks, I turned around staring at the person who had asked that question, my heart had dropped to the pit of my stomach. I looked up at the beautiful blue eyes belonging to the boy I possibly, may have had grown a crush on and saw his mouth open and close, "you didn't answer my question".