OLIVIA WAS IN some trance, the way Tommy spoke to the kids it looked natural. Olivia was surprised at how invested the kids where, when she would read to them their eyes would wonder just about anywhere else. Olivia tried her best to not stare at him, but he had a little mole on his face that made him look so much cuter and she didn't know how it did.
It didn't take long for Tommy to finish the book, he tried to stretch it out because unknown to Olivia he would try and steal glances at her as well. He would chalk it up to looking at the clock that was on the wall. He would do the same pattern, look at the clock then look down at her then back at the clock.
"Ms. Laus can he read us another book pleaseeee!" one of the kids asked, he was the epitome of class clown. Never paying attention and doing whatever it took to make the other kids laugh so for him to try and request Tommy to read another book left her beyond shocked.
Victoria pretended to look at the time knowing the answer was going to be no, "He doesn't have time, he has other things he has to do." her voice was low and caring trying to answer the kid's question without getting a bad reaction out of them. The kid's only pouted some crossing their arms looking away from their teacher.
Tommy had chimed in looking back at the clock, some of his teammates still had another hour before they had to leave, "If it's not much trouble, I could do another book. I have another hour before I must go."
Olivia had motioned for him to come near the books, wanting the kids to believe he was going to choose another one, "If you need to go you can. The kids could use practice on their math anyways." she had moved her hands over to some math practice she had printed out earlier for the kids.
Tommy only shook his head, "I mean it, I can read them another book. It's no trouble!" he had reached for a book out of the pile. "Or if you are so sure they need more boring math practice, I can help with that too. I mean it I have another hour and I'm going to be bored waiting for the other people too finish." his face fell into a small pout.
Olivia only laughed at how cute he looked, "Fine but they do need to work on math, they have a small quiz tomorrow with me." she had sent the kids back to their desks and told them to get a pencil ready. "Would you mind helping me pass out these papers?"
Tommy only nodded, he had reached out for the papers that were in Olivia's hand. As their fingers brushed against each other there was a small spark of electricity that jolted down their body. Olivia was clearly taken back from it but she quickly pulled away from it as he began walking by passing out the papers to the kids.
The next 10 minutes or so they spent walking around the classroom helping the students who needed help and or who were busy chatting with Tommy hoping talking to him would get them out of needing to do their work.
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
TOMMY HAD ANOTHER 20 minutes before he needed to leave, the kids were now off having their recess. In the class it was just Tommy and Olivia, Tommy had sent the security away just so it could be just them in the room for now. They were sitting in silence as Olivia looked at her emails but every once in a while she was able to tell his gaze was on her a bit longer then necessary.
Tommy was busy fidgeting with his fingers staring at the clock before turning to her, "What made decide on being a teacher?" his question was genuine but it was mainly filled with boredom. He hated the silence between him, even though they just met he enjoyed hearing her talk.
Her hands fell off from her keyboard as she turned to look at him, he had moved a bit closer as he hunched and laid his head on his arms, "I had this one teacher back in high school, she was my favorite person in the world so I kind of wanted to follow in her footsteps and here I am." her eyes sparkled as she told the reason why she became a teacher, "How about you? How you know you wanted to be a baseball player?"
Tommy had fixed his posture sitting back at first his arms were crossed and Olivia was confused, did she ask the wrong question? She thought she was being nice. "Hm well. I don't really remember when I wanted to be a professional player, it just happened I guess." a relief washed over Olivia as he continued to speak, "I just would always watch baseball with my dad and I guess it was just an automatic I want to be like those and have my dad watch one of my games."
It was only a simple nod from Olivia, their conversations were just small get to know me things. Such as what their favorite colors were and such the simple ice-breakers a teacher would ask on the first day of school.
For the Los Angeles Utility player this was completely different, he is so used to people knowing who he was and bombarding him with random filled questions. He enjoyed how different this was and how different she felt to him. Not once had she asked to take a photo, nor asked for an autograph. Olivia was treating him like a normal person and it filled him with happiness.
︶⊹︶︶୨୧︶︶⊹︶
ᴄʟᴀꜱꜱ ɴᴏᴛᴇꜱ: SaturnzInterlude
Okay look at me go! Another chapter done for this book. Wanted a small filler for this and I thought it was funn! Obviously this chapter was meant to add the "oh they like each other" seeds so nothing to serious. - Please "Vote and comment!" I love interacting with the people who read my books! I think it's cutesy and funnn.
