Dancing with Fire (John Pearce/Justice Crew Fanfic)

Chapter 22

* John's POV *

Kayla was late to my class, walking like a dead girl with her head down the whole time. She was lost in her old world once again. She wasn’t listening to me. She didn’t know the answer to the question I raised. She was different, blank, and dead. Not even once she looked up to see me, or any of her friends. Hearing things around the room, what’s going on with her, bothered me. Was I the reason?

The bell rang and I noticed how she held onto her bag like someone would steal it away from her. She was shaking, looks like scared of someone. She waited a few minutes before standing up and leaving my room. And that’s when I knew something was up.

“Kayla, please stay behind.” She stopped right in front of the door, and froze.

It has been a few months since I had the talk with Kayla. Things between us have been unusual since I had started to ignore her. Lenny has been telling me to man up and talk to her about what happened because she deserves to know the truth, but I chose to carry on with my life.

Well the truth is, I fell in love with her, and I still am.

Who would have known that I would be stuck in this situation? A teacher, falling in love to one of his students. Cliché, right?

But that was the reason I have been avoiding her because I didn’t know how she would respond, or if she loves me back. I was hoping she didn’t, so it would be easier to disregard about these feelings. I wouldn’t know what to do if she did have feelings for me. How could I have power over things to happen?

**FLASHBACK**

School has ended ten minutes ago, and now I am heading to Justice Crew free dance workshop down at the community center. On my way to the teacher’s parking lot, I saw my twin brother Lenny and Kayla laughing together, and then they saw me. Lenny opened the car for her. As she climbed in the passenger seat, Lenny made his way towards me and asked if I was feeling okay. Assuring him I was fine, and maybe a little bit under the weather, he let go of me and headed back to his car, with Kayla sitting comfortably in the passenger seat. How I wish she was in my car instead, but then how could I ignore these feelings igniting throughout my body?

Honestly, I was jealous. Ever since Lenny has started teaching in this school, I felt like he had taken Kayla away from me, though it was my fault for pushing her away. I haven’t seen her smile lately, and if I do, Lenny was always in the vicinity. Definitely jealous at how close they have become.

We arrived at the center at the same time but I parked on the opposite side. Just as I was near the entrance, I could hear Lenny’s laughter occupying the parking lot. I wonder what Kayla had said for him to laugh like that. Ignoring yet again, I hurriedly went inside and waited for them.

After preparing my things, I sat on the opposite side of the door to see them walk in. Lenny came in a few minutes, but without her. I thought, maybe she went to the bathroom or something, but as time passes by, there was no sign of her.

“You know you can’t control love. You cannot choose where your heart leads you. And if you love Kayla, tell her, or explain it to her why you started treating her like this.” A voice disrupted my thoughts, and found Lenny smirking beside me.

“What are you talking about?” I was curious what made him think I was in love with Kayla because I know for sure I wasn’t obvious.

“You’re my twin, it’s like twin telepathy.” He uttered, pretended that he was doing something with his hands, blowing it up in the air magically, and creating invisible explosions