Will Castle be able to resist the school's playgirl whom he has to tutor?
Holly Versace never took anything serious in life. But when her grades go down and her position as the cheerleading captain is threatened, she needs to find a tutor to help h...
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| 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐞 |
I'm standing outside the school gate when Castle walks out. He clearly wasn't expecting to see me there earlier than him, because when he walks out, he yelps at the sight of me directly beside him.
"Jesus, Holly." He clutches his heart, breathing out.
"Sorry," I mumble.
He adjusts the straps of his bag over his shoulders and stuffs his hands into the pockets of his hoodie.
He takes one look at my face and figures out something's wrong.
He furrows his eyebrows. "What happened?" His eyes widen slightly in realization. "Oh right, Mrs. Julie called you. Did you get into trouble?"
"I got the results."
His eyebrows shoot up in shock. "What—Really?"
I nod.
"Well?" He urges me, an anticipated look on his face. "Did you pass?"
"I..." I bite my bottom lip.
He furrows his eyebrows. "What? You what?"
I fiddle with my fingers. "I haven't seen them yet."
He frowns. "Seriously?"
I groan, putting my face in my hands. "I don't know. I'm acting like such a coward. I finally had the courage but then it just threw itself out the window."
"Take a look now?" He asks.
I give a reluctant nod.
I pull off my bag from one shoulder and unzip it, pulling out the papers. Adjusting my bag back on my shoulders, I look at the papers in front of me.
I mentally encourage myself to just flip the damn thing and get it over with.
I almost do it.
Nearly.
"You look first!" I thrust the papers at Castle's chest.
He catches it and holds it to his chest before the papers go flying to the ground. His eyes are wide. "Me?"
I nod. "Yeah, you."
"Holly, we both know, that between you and me, you're the least coward."
"It's not your grade, you don't have to feel like a coward," I reply.
"No, but I tutored you and you wrote the tests according to the knowledge that I gave you. So technically, this is my grade too."
