Teasing Me as You're Loving Me

Chapter 14. Your honor

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Jayre

I stood there in the sidelines and let my friends do the work. I didn't really want to do this, Wacky meant a lot to Layla. That I knew. But Zander? Oh well, I don't really care for him, I always suspected he had a thing for Layla, not sure though...

"Hey!" Oh heck. That was a very familiar voice. My head whirled to see Layla, storming over with a fire in her eyes. A fire I always wanted to see.

"What do you think you're doing?!" she basically yells at my friends. Wacky and Zander both look up, and Wacky shares a smirk with Zander before they stare back at us. They knew something was gonna happen, they knew what Layla was gonna do. But I didn't...

One of my friends give a small chuckle, folding his arms across his chest, "We were just putting these losers in their place after this one," my friend points at Wacky, "was eavesdropping on our conversations." I see Wacky roll his eyes before he leaned over to Layla and whispered something in her ear. I see Layla nod and scoff.

"What was it about? For you to be so angered at my friend for hearing something, it must have not been good." Layla sneers, a taunting tone in her voice. She was spot on though, they were talking about their previous tests where they cheated or paid the teachers sums of money to up their grade. But those aside, they were nice friends. Ace, the guy next to Jack who was currently facing Layla was the more reasonable one of the group. I mean, you would assume the most reasonable one would be me, but i've had my fair share of teasing.

I see Wacky flash a smug smirk at the same time Zander snickers. "What's so funny Leonardo?" I ask, hoping my voice was taunting. It had failed me, as soon as the words left my mouth, I heard an annoyed and angered voice. Goddamnit

"Ah, Johnson, I was wondering where you went off to after your little stunt last night." Layla snaps at me and I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

"What do you mean?" I ask, straightening my posture into its normal confidence.

"You went into the room all sluggish and you had a black eye!" she yells, she pauses for a moment before continuing, "and don't think i'll let you off without explaining yourself!"

Oh hell no. I thought as I heard Peter talk whatever trash he usually spat. However, it was about Layla.

"Dude! She's so bossy like come on, those dudes who chase after her are probably wrong in the head, I bet she just flirts her way to the top-"

Smack!

My fist collided with his jaw, I didn't need to hear another word coming from his mouth. Especially if it was about Layla.

"What the hell!-"

SMACK!

I hit him again, this time, hard enough to make him fall on the sand where the other students were partying. Peter looks at me in shock, was he seriously playing dumb right now? I saw someone approach Peter, and was shocked to see Wacky and Zander.

Wacky usually watched from the sidelines, he liked to report, he was never fond of getting involved. Zander, don't know, don't care.

I saw Wacky march right up to Peter and slap him on the face. "Don't talk about Layla like that again or I will seriously do worse." And with that he stormed right off, typing furiously on his phone.

Zander approached Peter and kicked him, actually kicked him. "Watch that ugly mouth of yours or your pretty face is gonna get ruined. Oh jeez, what am I saying? You don't have one!" he taunted and followed Joaquin.

Peter stood up and made his way past me, and just when I thought the coast was clear, he punched me in the face.

Ace who just got back from god knows where shoved Peter back and Jack followed, his hands curled into tight fists. Hayden went closer to me and had some carefully selected words he let out before saying, "You should go Jayre, we'll take care of this." I nodded, I had too much to drink anyway.

"Your honor."

"What?" she asked in a high pitched tone she usually got when she was angry.

"The reason I was the way I was last night, was for your honor Layla." I said in coolly. Jack laughed beside me.

"Listen up Johnson, but Layla doesn't need distractions like you right now, especially when you're more jerk than human. I appreciate what you did for Layla last night, but how you treat us and other students is just..." Wacky shakes his head as he trailed off.

"Not our fault you were eavesdropping!" Jack pipes up and I see Zander tense.

"Eavesdropping?!" Wacky yells.

"Yeah! You were literally staring right at us when you rounded the corner-"

"I wanted to get food for god's sake!" Wacky shrieks, following it up with a string for very nice words.

Zander rolls his eyes, "No wonder all you guys do is focus on sports, wait, do you even know how to focus? I mean, I know it might be too much to handle for your little brain but if you tried I'm sure you'd know better not to make assumptions next time."

"I'd want to change the attitude, besides Johnson, I am well aware most all of you are on the third warning correct?" Layla raises her brow before she continues, "well, I'm not entirely sure a school would accept students who have been warned several times and yet still chose to ignore those warnings, leading them to get kicked out, would they?"

My friends stayed silent, so did I.

"Wacky, Zander, let's go." she said flatly before walking off.

Wacky looks us up and down before scrunching his nose up and following Layla. Zander didn't even acknowledge our presence as he went after them.

"Wow. That was quite the show." Ace laughs nervously and Hayden shuts him up with a glare.

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