Geeky Gary

1

"Ms. Taron, may I see you at my desk please?" Mr. Powers says

I sigh, whenever he calls you by your last name, it can't be good.

"Yes?" I say reaching his desk.

"I have some of your papers that I graded.." Mr. Powers says laying papers on his desk, "These grades aren't as good as they need to be." he says.

"Mr. Powers, I really don't like science and I don't get any of it. I'm not going to become a scientist so why do I need to know about this stuff?" I complain.

He takes off his glasses, "Look Eva, I know you don't care but I have to teach it, and you have to learn it.. And to help you get better I'm thinking you need a tutor."

"What?? I don't want a tutor.. I don't need a tutor!" I say.

"Oh you'll want it when you find out you barely have a C in this class. Nearly a D." Mr. Way says.

I sigh before rolling my eyes, "Fine.. who's my tutor."

"Gary, will you come here please?" Mr. Way says.

I turn around and see Gary Adams walking up to us, almost tripping over his own feet before reaching the teacher's desk.

"I'm pretty sure Gary will be happy to tutor you, right?" Mr. Way asks.

"Um yes, sure, it's fine." He stammers.

'Ha, with the biggest nerd in school tutoring me I should get my grade up in no time.' I think to myself.

"Good, you two have fun and figure this out." Mr. Way says waving us away.

"Okay, so when do you want to start?" I ask Gary.

"Whenever you want. We could start today," he starts. "if you're not busy.." he adds, looking at the ground.

"Yeah today is fine, meet me outside after school." I say before texting my best friend Ethan to tell him I won't be riding home with him.

As 2:30 rolls around the last bell rings and I head to my locker.
From the corner of my eye I see Eric coming down the hallway.

'I hope he's not coming over here..' I think to myself. Just the thought of my ex boyfriend makes my blood boil, and seeing him now may push me over the edge.

"Hey what's up?" Eric says putting his arm around my shoulder.

"Get off me." I spit, shrugging his arm off.

"Eva, babe, I said I was sorry.." he casually says, almost mockingly, not a hint of remorse behind his words.
"So I was thinking you could come over today and we could.." I leave him mid-sentence and walk down the hall towards the band exit.

He grabs my arm and pulls me aside, "Hey! Will you listen to me please?"

I close my eyes and take a deep breath before telling him, "I have nothing to say to you. What makes you think I even want to be around you now that I know you were hooking up with Chloe, one of my best friends!"

Or at least she was supposed to be my friend..

I yank my arm from his grip and bust open the double doors.
I rush down the steps once I see Gary leaning against a nice grey mustang.

"Fine.. I see.. Whatever man, go have fun with your little nerd boyfriend!" Eric yells as I cross the street to meet Gary.

"Fucking Eric." I mumble as I step into Gary's car.
I don't have time for his foolishness.

"You okay?" Gary asks.

"Yeah I'm fine, I just can't stand him." I say buckling my seatbelt.

The drive to Gary's house is short but awkward.

"Nice car." I say running my hand against the leather seat.

"Thanks, my dad gave it to me."

"Oh wow, that's pretty cool."

"Yeah.." Gary says. He looks a little stiff in his seat. I decide not to say anything for the rest of the ride.

"Well we're here." Gary says as we pull into the driveway of a cute two story blue house, with a nice big tree planted in the yard.

"Cool, let's get this thing started." I tell him.

We go inside and he introduces me to his parents. They look shocked to see me, until Gary mentions he's my new tutor.

"Nice to meet you Eva. Here, you two have an apple." His mother says handing us each a Granny Smith, "You two have fun." She says as we head upstairs.

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"Thanks for helping me out Gary." I say once we reach his room.

"Its no problem." he says placing a ton of science books on his desk, and we begin our lesson. But about 45 minutes into it I get bored.

"So here the deeper structures in the brain include the Hypothalamus, located in the floor of the third ventricle. It's the master control of the autonomic system. It plays a role in.."

"Gary?" I say looking at him, "Sorry for interrupting but you have nice eyes.."

"Um thanks, but they're brown.." he says with a half smile.

"Yeah but they're a nice light brown, like caramel. I can't help but stare.. Its like they're sucking me in." I tell him and he laughs.

"Can I take your glasses off?" I say but take them off before he can answer.

I never noticed before but Gary is actually kinda cute.

"Wow, Gary you're hot!" I say and he laughs again, "No I'm serious.. I don't know why everyone picks on you."

He looks down at his lap "I don't know why either.."

"Gary?"

"Yeah?"

"Have you ever been kissed?" I ask him while biting my lip.

"Umm.. well.. no.." he stammers while lifting his head to look at me.

"Do you want to be kissed?" I ask him.

"Well duh.. But there's no one out there for me." He says looking at his lap again.

I lift up his chin, "There's someone out there for everyone."
He looks at me and I see his lips quiver like he's about to say something, but he doesn't.

I move my hand from his chin and tuck my curly hair behind my ears. "Well, I think that's enough studying for today." I say winking at him.

"Sure." He says closing his books. "What do you want to do now then?"

"Talk." I say moving from his desk chair to his bed. "So Gary, what do you do in your free time?" I ask.
He raises an eyebrow and smiles.
"Besides homework." I laugh.

He gets up from his chair and goes to his closet, he opens up the closet door and pulls out an acoustic guitar. It looks a bit aged.

"Oh, you play? Interesting." I say crossing my legs.

"I try to play." He says before sitting back in his chair.
Gary positions his fingers and begins strumming and fingering the strings, I immediately recognize the song. It's Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

"Wow, I've never heard an acoustic version of this song." I say. It's odd but it sounds great.

Gary plays a couple more songs for me and I applaud him. Afterwards we head downstairs and snack on some cookies baked by Gary's mother.

I look at the clock hanging on his wall, it's nearly 6:30. It's not late but I tell Gary I should be heading home anyways.

Gary drives me home, not much is said on the way to my house.
Awkward car rides, I hope this isn't a thing with him.

We arrive at my house and Gary gets out of his car and walks me to my door.

"I had a nice time Gary, after all the studying. I'll see you tomorrow." I smile once more before I walk inside and close the door behind me.

**So... First chapter :)
Comment what you think, I'm really trying to make this story work and I'd really appreciate some feedback on this chapter and also the next.
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