Luke Hemmings.
Seriously, anyone else but him. The teacher told me to move and sit next to him. I pick up my bag and stand up giving a 'I am really going to hate this and I really don't like him' look. "Good luck." He whispers and im not sure if it was serious or not.
I walk to the back of the class and sit in the empty seat beside Luke. He completley ignores me as I sit down. I would at least have expected a look my way or just a polite smile or 'hello'. But then again, this is Luke Hemmings im talking about.
Luke is known as the college's resident bad boy and player. It seems as if he has a new girlfriend every week but everyone knows he doesn't have girlfriends, he just beds girls and leaves in the morning without another word.
I've seen him around college as he is in most of my classes this year. Luke is tall, like really tall (taller than Ashton) and his blonde quiffed hair only adds to his height more. He has bright blue eyes and a lip ring which adds to his 'bad boy' look as well as the band shirts, flannels and ripped black skinny jeans he seems to never take off from what I have seen.
I feel so incredibly awkward. I look down and fiddle with the sleeve of my jumper but I could feel his eyes on me which made me feel even more awkward and my face turn a light shade of red. Out of all the people in this class, why did I have to be paired with Luke?
"So now you are all in pairs I can explain the project. It will be on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet." Mrs Tanner spoke at the front of the room. I loved that play but I had no idea what we are going to do. And to do a play as complex and romantic as that was a complete no with Luke.
"Want I want you to do is either produce a presentation on the play covering all main aspects of it or choose a scene and act it out. However, I do want you all produce some in depth research about 3 main themes of the play." Great. Someone I have never met before and i were going to talk about love. This was going to reach a whole other level of awkward for me.
"And by the way, I do expect you to work on this after school hours and only after school hours." She warns. "Okay, so I'm going to leave you all to discuss your presentations for the rest of this lesson." Mrs Tanner announced.
The room erupted with conversation at once as I looked around. The room to find Ashton sitting next to a girl with blonde hair that was put into a ponytail. I think she was one of the students at the top of the class because English isn't exactly Ash's best subject.
I looked back down at the desk and started fiddling with my fingers, not wanting to talk to Luke because I am just that socially awkward. I felt his stare on me again until he spoke up. "Hi." He greeted.
I looked up towards him. "Hi." I reply back simply. "You're Freya, right?" He asks probably trying to make conversation. I nod simply again. "Yep." I say popping the 'p'. I have honestly never felt this awkward before.
"You're at the top of the class and im failing miserably so I would appreciate all the help I can get from you because if I don't pass I can't do any gigs with my band." He explains. What he said probably meant that I was going to do most, if not all of the presentation by myself.
I sigh. "Okay."I answer quietly. "So what do you want to do?" He asks. I didn't expect him to be that eager. I shrug. "I guess what the teacher says. Well do a presentation or something." I reply, plainly.
"No, I mean about meeting up." He corrects, laughing a little. I blush feeling slightly embarrassed. "Tell, you what you can come round to my apartment on campus tonight. We can get started then." He butts in.
I start to feel slightly uncomfortable. I don't even know him. Well, I know his reputation and it's not a good one trust me, but not him and he just says I am going to go to his apartment tonight. I really didn't want to but I am usually so awkward that I can't say no because it would be rude. Why did i have to be this way?
"I hardly know you." I mutter to myself but he heard. He throws an arm around the back of my seat and smirks. I squirm in my seat, feeling even more uncomfortable. "Well talk to me then princess." He says. Princess? I blush even more at the name he called me and not in a good way.
"Well I'm nearly 17. And im Freya Daniels. I don't have anything more to say." I shrug, speaking quietly. He smirks again. I look up at him so I could see his reaction. "There must be more to you than that." He says.
I shake my head. I didn't really want to have in depth conversations with him if that was in depth at all. I dint even particularly want to have any conversations with him at all. I should really associate with people like him any mean as it sounds.
"Well then. I'm Luke Hemmings I'm nearly 17 and im in a band and I like to go to parties." He smirks, probably mocking me. I smile at him sheepishly to be polite. "Band?" I question, feeling weird that I was actually making conversation with Luke. He nods his head. "Yeah, do you like music?" He asks, simply. I nod a little.
"I like old bands and artists like-" I get interupted by the bell chiming again. Luke rips out a corner of a blank page out of his note book and starts scribbling on it quickly. Once he hands it to me he stands up out of his seat. "See you later princess." He winks at me and walks off with two boys that were dressed similarly to him. One had crazy coloured hair and I've noticed him around school and one had an old Nirvana shirt on.
I stood up and shove the piece of paper in my pocket, making a mental not to look at it later. Ash walks walks up to me. "How was he?" He asks, looking worried. I shrug again for what seems like the hundredth time that day. "He was weird. He kept calling me princess" I sounded a bit disgusted when I said the pet name he called me.
"What a creep." Ashton remarks leading me out of the class room and to the picnic benches to eat lunch. After this I could go back to my apartment as we only had a half day on a Monday. "I know." I reply.
"I want you to be careful around him Freya. I don't want him hurting you or leading you on or anything." He warns. I just look at him puzzled. Why would he hurt me? He's Luke Hemmings but why?
"Did you hear about his last big fling?" I shake my head in response, biting into a sandwich if kept in my bag for lunch. "He got this girl to trust him who already had a boy friend. He got him to trust her bedded her. Her boyfriend found out and beat the shit out of him. Her boyfriend dumped her. He ruined everything" he explained. That just made me even more scared to meet him tonight.
"He told me to come to his apartment tonight so we could start the project." I mutter. Ashtons eyes widen and he dropped his sandwich. "No, no, no Freya. Ask him to meet up at the cafe he can't do anything there." He protests. Then something clicks. I couldn't tell him, I didn't have any way to.
I pull out the piece of paper Luke gave me in the lesson out of my jeans pocket and look at it. "What's that?" Ash questions with a mouthful of food. "Something Luke gave me." I answer unfolding it. "It's his address." I say. Knots immediately appear in my stomach.
"No phone number? No way to actually change where you will meet him?" He asks. I shake my head, gulping. "I'm not going to let you get hurt Freya it's okay." He says sitting next to me and giving me a hug.
"Thanks Ash. You are like the big brother I never had." I hug him back gratefully. "You're welcome." He smiles. "Let's get you back." He says and I let go of him and pick up my bag, throwing the rest of my sandwich in the bin as I had lost my appetite.
I'm dredging tonight...
A/N Hey Fam! I hope you are loving this book so far ( even though it's 2 chapters in) and I can't wait to share the rest of it with you.
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