Rules Of Jealousy

Step One: Talk to target

It was the day I dreaded the most.

Monday...

I had been praying the whole of last night that Samuel wouldn't be in today and I wouldn't have to deal with speaking to him today. It was only until I neared the school gate, and saw his muscular, lonely figure, that I realised my prayer hadn't reached the big man yet.
I heard someone call my name and whipped my head to that direction.

"So... Jess would you rather talk to Mr Lonely now or later," Grinned Zoe.

"Erm... How about never," I muttered.

"Jess, you promised," She moaned.

"Fine, I'll go now," I grumbled.

Her face light up instantly, as she waited for me to get moving. After around 30 seconds of silence and no movement. Her face sank again and she pointed direction of Samuel, which resulted in him glaring at us.

"Alright sheesh," I frowned then started walking in towards Samuel.

His eyes burned into my soul as our eyes made contact. I stopped as I got sight of his shoes. I took one final look at Zoe, who gave me a quick encouraging look.

As I was about to speak.

He cut me off with one simple word.

"No"

I could seriously feel myself sweating now, all I could think of was that he knew my intentions.

"No what, " I whispered.

"No, I will not sign up to any stupid petition," He spat.

"It... It's not that... I just wanted to say... You know," I stuttered.

Raising his eyebrow, he took a step forward.

"Say... Erm... You... know,"

He took another step forward until our noses were almost touching, and my breathing had cut off.

"Spit... It... Out," He whispered, whilst his breath fanned my face.

By now I could feel every single person staring at me and Samuel.

"Erm, I was just gonna say... Hi," I said, in voice even mutated dog couldn't hear, then quickly scrambled away in beeline back towards Zoe.

Zoe stared at me for a while before saying ," Seriously Zoe, hi, is all you could come up with?".

"Zoe, I'm pretty sure that boy looked into my soul," I choked, trying to control my breathing.

"If that's the only thing he looked at we have a lot of work to do," She sighed.

As I opened my mouth to speak, the first period bell went off, meaning that it was time for class.

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As I walked into class I felt a pair of eyes, piercing into my back. I turned my head around quickly, only to met Samuel Collins apple green eyes, watching my every move. Funnily enough, I didn't remember him being in my class.

As I sat down in my seat, I heard the door slam and saw Mr Drayton enter.

"Welcome to Science everyone, I hope everyone enjoyed their spring break, and are feeling fresh and ready for the new term," Smiled Mr Drayton.

I must admit Mr Drayton was a cool teacher but the fact that he brought up the spring break, made me think of Jay breaking up with me and that made me feel a strong feeling of dislike to him.

"Ok-," He said clapping his hands together.

"For this and the next 3 weeks we are going to be starting a project".