He's My Nerd (Harry Styles as Marcel fanfic)

Chapter 4

Rosalind's POV

It was Monday; three days after the incident with Marcel. I knew I was a bitch, but I wasn't going to tell anyone about it, and I was going to pretend nothing was going on as usual. I didn't know if he'd told anyone, but I doubted it. He was too shy.

I felt really guilty though, because I went to the shop for my mum after he had left and used my own money, but I bumped into him and he smiled at me. I couldn't smile back. I didn't want to hurt him, but I knew that I had as I watched the smile drop off his face and turn into a look of sadness.

Anyway, I was walking to my science class with Ally as Maya was off sick. It was the only class where we were allowed to sit where we wanted. I didn't mind science. I wasn't great at it, but I wasn't awful either.

Ally and I sat down at one of the middle desks and set out our things. I usually worked with Maya in science, and Ally often worked with a boy called Josh who she had a crush on. I was pretty sure he liked her too but both of them were too shy to say anything.

We gathered together our books and casually prepared for the lesson.

The teacher, Ms Lovett, strolled in and called the class to order. She set her things on the table and began writing on the board.

"Copy this into your jotters everyone, we're starting the new biology unit today."

Half the class groaned and the other half stayed quiet. I was with the quiet lot, I liked biology. I knew most of the populars hated it, but they were like that with any kind of work. They preferred to ditch or skive off. I would never do that.

I began writing 'Biology' in my work jotter and waited for Ms Lovett to go into more depth about the subject.

"Alright class, I want no giggling or sniggers from you immature bunch, but we're going to be studying the reproductive system over the next few weeks."

A tidal wave of awkward washed over the class as the boys at the back tried not to laugh and made typical immature womb jokes.

One of them yelled out "Hey miss, what's a baby's house like?" When she didn't respond he finished "Well, it's small, it only has one womb!" All his mates started chuckling and everyone else groaned at his awful joke.

Ms Lovett sent him out for his behaviour and began explaining the system to the class.

After a half hour or so, she decided we would research the system in groups of two or three and asked us to organise ourselves. I was about to place dibs on Ally, but she had already decided to work with Josh and one of his friends. She shot me an apologetic look before sliding into the seat beside them.

I didn't know who to work with now. Maya would be absent today, wouldn't she? typical.

"Rosalind? Ros?" I looked up blankly at Ms Lovett who was staring down at me. "Who's your partner?"

"Oh, er, I don't have one." I mumbled.

"Okay, let's see, ah! You can go work with Marcel."

Marcel? That hit me like a ton of bricks right in the face. As if I wasn't upset enough about ignoring him, now I had to research the most awkward and embarrasing subject in the whole of science with him! I felt so bad.

I got up out of my seat and went to the back of the class where marcel was sitting alone in the corner.

"Um, hey," I smiled weakly.

"I'm sorry you have to work with me." he sighed, not looking at me.

My heart twanged with sadness for him and guilt at my rude actions.

"Don't be, I don't mind." I tried to make up for my bad attitude.

"L-let's get this over with." He said quietly.

"Alright," I agreed.

We got down to work and began writing all the information we could find. It wasn't too bad. Marcel seemed quite nice. That still didn't mean I liked him though. I couldn't. No way.

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Sooo, I guess that was kind of short, but I was up at 6 this morning and its nearly 11 at night here in the UK, so I'm tired. I thought I really should update after all this time. I'm sooooo sorry for the long wait. I'm so busy though at the moment, I'm in the middle of gradually moving house. I'll update ASAP,

Love,

Katie xx