𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 : Robin Arellano

ONE

Robin had never been good at math. Or any subject for that matter. But he always found a way to get out of any extra credit they offered or making sure they don't call his mom.

Finney was always there to help him when he was failing. He would go to his house with snacks and he would tutor him for a few hours before they eventually gave up and watched horror movies the rest of the night.

This time was different. He had his usual math class. The boring teacher, the annoying popular girls constantly battling for his attention and the boys acting tough even though they're scared shitless of him.

"There's a seat next to Mr Arellano at the back." His teachers voice brought him out of his trance as his attention shot to the front of the classroom where a girl his age was stood. She was absolutely breath-taking. Her hair reaching down to just below her hip, her eyes sparkling as she glanced over in his direction. She ducked her head down and made her way the the back of her classroom and pulled out the chair next to him. Her smell of vanilla and roses hit him and he smiled to himself, turning to face her.

"Hey I'm Robin."
"Carmen. This is my first day."
"Can I see your schedule? I might have the same classes as you." She reached into her bag and handed him the paper.
"We've got science together. I'll walk you next class." She smiled at him and nodded her head, turning to face the front and take notes in the lesson.

Robin on the other hand could not care less about taking notes and instead studied the girl next to him. The way she doodled on her page when she got bored and how she bit her lip when she was trying to understand something.

"The bell's rang. You said you'd walk me?" Robin quickly snapped out of his trance and hurried to put away his things, standing up too fast as he almost tripped over his chair. That made Carmen burst out with laughter as she slung her bag over her shoulder and began to walk out the classroom.

She has a nice laugh.

~

The day had gone by quickly and it was now lunch. Carmen was dreading it as the only person she had talked to the entire day was Robin and god knows where he was right now.

She walked to her locker to put her books away and take her lunch out before slamming it shut and almost jumping out of her skin when Robin appeared behind it.

"Holy shit Robin!"
"Sorry amor. Wanna come eat lunch with my friends?" He smiled.
"Uh sure?" She smiled back and followed him over to a tree outside where a boy and girl sat underneath.

"Ooh Robins got a girlfrienddd"
"Shut up Gwen this is Carmen." She waved at the girl as Robin introduced Finney. She got to know the siblings and explained to them why she had moved there.

"So we're all having a sleepover at our house if you wanted to join?" Gwen smiled at her.
"Yeah when is it?"
"Saturday?"
"Alright I'll be there." She smiled at Gwen and lay back into her elbows, letting her hair fall behind her as she soaked up the sun.

Robin couldn't help but watch her. She was beautiful there was no doubt about that but it was the fact that she was so beautiful she took his breath away. It was difficult to keep his eyes off of her so he opted to staring down at his food or out at the distance to keep himself from scaring her away.

The bell rang out signalling the last lesson so robin quickly stood up and offered a hand out to Carmen. She laughed at his awkwardness but accepted his hand nonetheless and pulled herself up, smiling at him and leading him back into the building.

~

The two took the seats in the back corner of the science classroom and took out their things.

"Ok class. Nice to see everyone back again. Today we will be getting into partners and beginning our project that we will be working on throughout the term." Robin immediately turned to Carmen with a large smile as she looked back with a smirk. Nodding back at him and turning back to whatever the teacher was saying.

"Go find a partner." They both immediately let out the laughs they were holding and turned to each other, about to get into a conversation before a tall blonde girl slammed her hands in between them and turned to look at Robin.

"So Robin. You're like my partner yeah?" She asked twirling her hair around her finger.

"Uh do I know you?" He was genuinely confused as to who this random chick was. To Carmens amusement the girl let out a strange laugh and leant forward to lightly slap robins arm, completing ignoring the brunette girl behind her.

"Oh robin you are like so funny! It's Clarissa. You looked at me in the hallway that one time? Yeah anyway I was thinking that-"

"Sorry Clarissa but I was already partners with Carmen over here so you can go find someone else to bother." Clarissa let out a scoff of annoyance and slowly turned on the heel of her foot to look at Carmen who was barely holding in her laugh as she waved at her.

"Sup Clarissa. Nice to meet you I guess."
"Whatever. This is your loss Robin." Clarissa said as she stormed away to probably tell her friends what just happened. Robin looked after her with a genuinely confused look at slowly turned back around to Carmen.

"What.the.fuck." He let a breathless laugh and Carmen did too.

"Oh robin you're like the funniest guy I know! Please marry me Robin I swear I'll be such a good trophy wife!" Carmen mocked with a laugh as Robin was smiling to himself watching her.

"Oh shut up."
"Wait so you're like popular huh?"
"Uh I guess so. Mainly for getting into fights."
"Bad boy huh?" Now this he laughed at shaking his head no and looking back up at her.
"Whatever you wanna call it."
"I call it being hot."

Speechless. That was what Robin was right now. Absolutely speechless. His eyes were widened and his jaw dropped slightly, his cheeks tinted pink. He cleared his throat and shook his head, laughing slightly trying to cover up the fact she made him blush.

"Shut up. Let's get on with the work."

Hey so this is the end of the first chapter. So bloody proud bc i never finish them but i'm hoping to get this book fully released and published soon <3

i'm emilia btw if you couldn't see that from my username :)