All You Had To Do Was Stay // Tree of Love

Chapter 5

As I stepped into the class, I saw him. He was already there first. But he's pretty occupied with his phone, which is a good thing for me. I walked to my seat and sit down. The class began to filled up and everyone is now seated.

"Okay class, I need to inform you something." My math teacher stand up and continued, "I know its a first day of school. But I got called by the principal today to do some stuffs, so I'll give you guys a work in partner. And of course, I'll be picking your partner. I always liked being a matchmaker." He said proudly. I rolled my eyes, he's such a gay.

"Starts with you, you'll be working with him, Mr. Gallagher." He said to a girl in front of me. "You, will be working with her." He pointed a finger to a girl next to me.

"And you," he pointed at me, "you will be working with.. Umm" he searched the room to picked my partner. Please not Brody.

I swear god not h.. "Him! Mr. Jenkins you will be working with this girl." He said pointing his finger at me.

No no no. I must be dreaming right now. God did I do something wrong so that I have to face things like this on my first day of school?

Mr. Kennedy then continue to picked everyone's a partner to work with while I'm trying my best not to cry and stay calm. Then he picked up a papers and give it to us.

"Now, the work have to be done before the bell went off. So you better gathered up with your partner, and started working." He said to us, everyone started to gathering up with their partner. My hands getting sweaty, my heartbeats getting faster. "If you guys done, just put the worksheet on my desk. And if you're done before the bell, wait for the bell to went off." He instructed us, "Excuse me." He added and Mr. Kennedy walked out of the room.

Stay calm Shay, you could to this. He'll probably walked out of the class and let me do this worksheet. But my thoughts was wrong. Someone is pulling his chair and put it next to mine, and sit down. I looked down to the paper. My hair is covering my face, so he wouldn't see my face.

"I need to go somewhere, I'll be back in a sec." He said to me, and then stood up again and walked out of the class.

I sighed in relief, I think he hasn't recognized me yet. I'm pretty sure he's not going to be back. Then I started working the sheet.

Ages later, he hasn't come back. Its 3 questions more, then I heard someone walks into the room. He's back. I quickly looked down to the paper again, my hair covering my face.

"Sorry, had to do something." He seated back. Did Brody Jenkins just apologized to me?

I just nodded, "Where's my part?" He asked me. I give the paper to him. "So you didn't talked much huh." He didn't realize that it's me! Good work Shay. I didn't answer him and he started working the last 3 questions.

"3 questions more. You're fast, I think you're good at this lesson huh?" He said to me. I just nodded, again.

5 minutes later, he elbowed me. "You, how to do this one?" Haha 'You' he doesn't even bothered to ask for my name.

I just took the paper for him, and started to write the answer but he pulled the paper back.

"No. I didn't asked you to do it. I asked you to explain how to do this. I wanted to work it by myself." He said to me. I then explained it to him, lowering my voice so that he wouldn't recognize me. He then nodded, "Oh so this is how it works, thanks."

After a few minutes, he talked again. "You really didn't talk much aren't you?"

He's so annoying really. I just nodded in response.

"What's your name?" He asked me. Gosh what should I do. I stayed silent. My heart getting faster. I feel like I wanted to puke.

"You're such a weirdo." He said to me. Well, isn't that your nickname for me? "Look at me." He told me, I shake my head.

"Come on" he begged but raising his voice a little. I couldn't help but look at him, slowly. Finally I could see his face, he looks bigger. I think he has been built up his body for the past 6 months. He looks better, much better, I mean, he looks hot. He wears a black plain sweatshirt. As soon as he saw its me, his eyes widened. He looks so surprised. He looked like he's seen a ghost.

We do nothing for awhile, just stared at each other. He blinked, like thinking that it was only his illusion that I'm here.

"S-sh.." He managed to say my name. "S-Shay?" He finally said but more sounds like a question. I quickly looked down to my hands not daring to look at him again. I mentally slapped my head for looking at him.

"Y-you, y-you're back." He's stuttering. What the hell is happening with him?

I can't breathe. My whole body is shaking. I'm trying my bests to keep calm. He keeps quite for like a few seconds.

And then the bell went off, signaling that its time to go home. He quickly gathered his stuff to his backpack and walked outside. I was surprised that he didn't do anything, and just leaving me there. I sighed in relief. I nearly facing my death. Then I following his steps. Walking quickly to my locker, I pray that I didn't bumped into Brody or his friends. As I reached my locker, I quickly pulling my books out and then closing my locker. As I put my books inside my bag, my books were pushed to the floor. When I looked up, I saw Jake smirking down at me.

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This one is suck I know :/ but the next chapter will be better I promise! Update soon!

Xx Mel.