Stupid Exchange

Chapter 17- distracted

Kayla and I walked home.
We laughed the whole way about what had just happened.
When I got home, I went straight to bed, I was rarely so tired. But I still had the images of him in my head. His voice.

"HEY"
I said loudly and tapped my forehead.
I wanted to remind myself that he was a jerk.
I fell asleep a few seconds later.

...

"Navs, wake up, we have to go, you sleepyhead." Kalya woke me up.

"What? Where to?" I was still half asleep.

"Where to? To school! Get dressed quickly and take your things, Josh is waiting for us downstairs!"
She ran back downstairs and I knew I didn't have much time left to get ready.
I quickly got dressed and put on a little mascara.
I took my gym clothes and my bag, because I was supposed to have PE today too.
I ran downstairs and when I saw Josh's car, where Kayla and Josh were already sitting, I sprinted the last few meters to his car.
I got in the back of the car, only to see that this time I was the only one sitting in the back, no Jace next to me.

"Where's Jace?" I asked, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible.

"He had to go to school early today for a school project," Josh answered.
The three of us drove to school and we weren't actually that late, but almost.
I got distracted by our class schedule, because I was supposed to have chemistry as the first class, but it was postponed, so I had PE as the first class instead.
You had to walk even further to gym than to chemistry.
Great, now I was really going to be late.

Finally, I got to the gym, but too late...
I entered the gym, already changed into my gym clothes and everyone was looking at me, all the attention fell on me and about 40 eyes were looking at me.

"I, uh... sorry for being late"
I said with conviction and a slight grin on my face so that the teacher would forgive me, Mr Marlo.

"I've heard a lot about you from my colleague, not really good news... You're getting another hour of detention to learn from it, we won't accept you being late to every single class" said Mr Marlo.

Jace was also standing there, among the others. He couldn't hold back his laughter any longer and started laughing loudly, then the attention fell on him.
He didn't stop laughing stupidly until he noticed how warningly and angrily Mr Marlo was staring at him.
He stopped laughing immediately because he didn't want to get another hour of detention, which he had already gotten from the principal a few days ago.

"Dumbass,"
I murmured quietly to myself in a whisper.

"How was that?" asked Mr Marlo.

Oh no, did he hear me?
"Uh, nothing," I replied.
I hated detention and I felt like detention was being handed out to me like homework, endlessly.
I didn't speak to Jace, he was in his own world.

We were playing soccer and I was really bad at it.
The game ended quicker than I thought and now the boys who were also in my PE class were throwing the balls to each other.
I was in my own thoughts, thinking about what it would be like to hold a cold slushy in my hand and go swimming in the pool,
oh how nice.

I was so caught up in my thoughts and captivated that I didn't notice the things that were happening around me.
I came out of my thoughts again and realized that I was standing in the middle of the field.
I was in shock because a soccer ball was flying straight at me, in slow motion, on its way to my face.
Oh oh, I hadn't seen that coming. I wanted to jump to the side, but it was too late.
The ball had hit me directly in the face, on my cheek.
Now I was lying on the floor, still conscious, but my cheek really hurt.

I was still lying on the floor and all the students were surrounding me and looking down at me.

"I'll take care of her" Jace said to Mr Marlo.

"Okay, thanks Jace" he replied.
Wait, WHAT? Jace wanted to help me?

He took me in his arms bride style.

All the girls who were there turned to us and their jaw dropped.
Their evil looks were directed directly at me and a few girls even started to cry because they weren't the ones being carried by Jace.

"Jace, I can walk myself" I said.
"You're bleeding" he just said.

"Yes, from my cheek, not my legs"
But at the same time I enjoyed feeling his arms around me.

"You are the clumsiest person I have ever met," he said then, with a smirk on his face.

This-

He carried me to the school nurse.

"Excuse me, is anyone there?" he asked, because neither of us saw the school nurse, she wasn't there.

"Where is she?" I asked, still carried in his arms.

"I don't know, but I won't wait for her. I'll heal your wound myself now," he said, he had concern in his eyes and he was serious.

"What? What do you mean?" I asked, was he really going to heal the wound on my cheek now?
"But you'll miss PE..."

"I don't care," he replied coldly and in a serious tone, calm down Prince Charming...
He took a tissue and disinfectant from a first aid kit.

"Do you even know how to do that?"

"Yes, don't worry, I know how to do that."

Haha, I don't believe him a single word, he absolutely doesn't know how to do it.

There was a moment of silence that was with us, but not an awkward one, it was comforting. One Minute later a drop of blood rolling down my cheek broke the silence.
He disinfected the wound on my cheek and looked down and deep into my eyes, his hazel eyes hypnotizing my brown ones.

I would love to, but I just can't stop myself from staring into his eyes.

Our faces were very close, but I kinda wanted them to get closer.
I rlly tried not to, but I couldn't help but look at his lips. 
I had to say something, like right now.

"You know you didn't have to do that..."

"Yeah, I know" he replied, looking down at his hands, his omfg veiny beautiful looking hands.

I didn't want to be another one of his conquests but I was captivated in that moment.
Both of us flinched when we heard the door open in the office.
It was the school nurse. Jace had finally finished disinfecting and was putting a bandage over it.
He picked me up bride style again and carried me out of the office.

Jace, I have legs, I can walk myself"

oh man.

"Yep clumsy, you already said that"
he said teasingly.