I ghoul you ❤️

Study Buddies

Sitting in biology, I could not understand a thing. The teacher was moving fast through various diagrams and slide shows about ghoulie aging, digestion, reproduction, infection, evolution, and more. Essentially I was getting a crash course on how a Zombies works.

"For your homework, I want you to pick a ghoulie topic and investigate it further. We will be heading to the library so you can use the books there. You have a week!"

Slowly the class starts to pack up their books and move down the hallway. I look around lost in the sea of people, my mind still confused about the initial infection of a ghoulie when I had already experienced that. A soft hand tapped my shoulder making me jump with a start.

"Are you ok Lyss?"

I look up to find Dean with a concerned look on his face, "Honestly, I have no idea. I don't know if I can complete the homework when I don't understand this subject."

"Well I could always help you. It is my best subject after all."

"That would mean the world Dean."

"Anything for you Miss Lyss."

I look at him with a suggestive look, "Anything you say?"

His face is overcome by embarrassment, "Well, i-it depends what you're planning."

Giggling, I bump him with my shoulder, "Chill, I won't do anything haha. It was funny to see you all flustered like that."

He lets out a huff of a sigh, "Cheeky Shit."

"That's me."

The rest of the say goes by pretty slow, but when the last bell rings I head straight to the library to begin my Biology project. I'm still scratching my head on which topic to choose. I select a punch of books on Zombies and ghouls before taking a seat in the back of the library. Within 10 minutes Dean is dumping his bags across the table and sitting next to me.

"So what have you found so far?"

I look over at him with a solumn face, "Nothing. Like at all. How do you do well in this subject?"

He laughs, "Because not all of it is on Zombie anatomy. Let me have a look at the books you're using."

"What is with that? Like in all of our subjects we learn every little-"

"Lyss, we attend a school for ghoulies, they are going to teach us about ourselves just like they do at a human school."

"Bu- Actually, you're not wrong."

"That's because I am a genius."

He gets up from the table and grabs ahold of my sleeve before motioning me to follow him. He leads me through the ailse upon ailse of books, staking various books into his arms. When he reached the last shelf he pointed towards a book that sat directly in front of him.

"Could you grab that please. My arms are kinda full."

I step in front of him and take the small book of the shelf before stepping back to move away only to knock into Dean. The books he had stacked in his arms were now spread across the floor. His arm was tight around my waist to stop me from landing ontop of the books. 

"Are you ok?"

I laugh, "That's the second time today you've asked me that question."

He laughs in response, "Probably because you always seem to be in trouble."

I quirk my eyebrow, "Oh? I didn't realise that I was in trouble?"

"Well you are. Miss Lyss, you knocked all the books out of my hands. Who do you think has to clean them up now?"

I shrugged my shoulders, "You could."

He let me stand on my feet and wagged a finger at me, his subtle smirk was growing wider and wider.

"But you deserve a punishment for making such a mess."

My eyes widened at the statement and my body buzzed with excitement. 

I gave Dean a sassy look, "I didn't realise that this is where you wanted to take it Mr Dean."

"It is certainly where it will go if you don't accept the punishment," He winks in return.

I roll my eyes and begin picking up the books with Dean. As we finished we lugged them back to the table we had claimed (and by claimed I mean Dean's belongings had been strewn across it). We begun work, at first it was silent until I was asking too many questions and Dean decided to teach me everything I needed to know.

"What body system are you talking about for your homework? We'll start on that one and then I'll teach you the rest for our exam block."

I scratch my head and give him the most innocent look I can muster, "I actually don't even have a topic yet."

"Jeez, I've got some work to do."

He pulls my book closer to us and then brings out one of his own with neat handwriting and coloured markings on each page. He copies down one of the pages in his book into my own with the same simple and neat handwriting and coloured markings. 

When he was finished he turns back to me, "I've written a quick summary about each possibly topic. I want you to choose from them and then we can start researching it."

Dean and I spent another three hours in the library as we studied, chatted and laughed about how ridiculous I was failing to understand how ghoulies eat. In the end, we had narrowed down the topic both of us wanted to do and investigated further into what each subject meant. When we went to leave I was ready to go straight to my dorm and flop onto my bed and fall asleep. We packed up and began heading in our opposite ways.

"Thank you so much for your help Dean."

He gave me a soft smile, "No problem Lyss. I'm planning to tutor you in Biology. It seems you need it."

"Thats much appreciated," I laughed at his enthusiasm before heading off to the dorm.