Can you Love me?

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Now that I think about it, besides fighting, doodling is the next thing I do most. Because that what I do to pass time in other classes. I hated history, battle history, evil creature history. I mean what's done is done why waste so much time reading about it.

But this was not what teachers thought. They thought that it was best for us to learn from mistakes and accomplishments of the past. Whatever the deal was, I hated History. So naturally in history class, I was busy doodling on my notebook. I was kind of good at sketching and ended up drawing supernatural creatures that I liked most.

Like a dragon, it was lethal but it was so royal looking and damn hard to kill. Then there are Kelpie, hard to detect as they can even take human form but usual we find it in a water horse form.

"Annalise, can you please answer the question?" Voice of our history teacher pulled me out of my zone.

"What question , Sir?" I asked as curtly as possible.

The class snickered and I realised I might have missed him when he first asked the question.

"The lineage of Gargoyles and first human war with them." He said through gritted teeth.

"I don't really know."

"This is not the attitude you should use in the class Annalise."

"Sir, why me, why not ask some other student something. You know I am not a history fan and often sleep through the lesson." I added dryly but instead of looking angry my teacher looked kind of pained and hopeless.

"Sir may I?" The new guy, Jayden Wallace was also in the class and because of doodling, I didn't notice.

"Sure Jayden."

And then the boy went all encyclopaedia on us while I tuned out the shit yet again.

"Annalise I want you to pay more attention." And I nodded just for his sake.

But something weird started happening and my attention shifted from my beloved doodles to Jayden. I have never been stealing glances kind of person but I was doing that now. Much to my annoyance, I had no control over it because automatically my eyes lifted to see his face.

The guy was beyond good looking if that was possible. But how was he as a person?

I shouldn't care, it was bad for me and him but tell that to curiosity.

Class ended and I sat there waiting for rest of the students to walk out lest I touch one of them by mistake and they died right on the spot. I put my head on the desk waiting for the commotion and cheery laughter to get over.

"Annalise Curtin?" A male voice made me snap my head in his direction.

"Yes?" Jayden was standing next to me and instinctively my fingers formed a tight fist.

"Can we talk ?" He asked with a smile. Not a sweet gentle smile, a flirty kind of smirk.

"About?" I was being blunt even though I found him really attractive.

"About you being an awesome warrior. I have heard a lot about you." And then suddenly he sat down next to me.

I cringed and moved to the furthest corner of the seat giving him my icy glare.

"I don't really want to talk Wallace."

"But I do. Tell me , are you really unbeatable since the age of twelve?" Did this guy do a background check on me?