The Way You Love Me

5. Busted Surprises

~ Chapter Five - Busted Surprises! ~

“This is how you do it.” Blade proudly smiled after successfully balancing a chemical equation I was having a hard time dealing with.

We were both sitting in the school library. I was trying to understand the concept of balancing chemical equations and one particular equation refused to be balanced by me.

“Thank you,” I grumbled. The gratitude came out with reluctance. He might be really stupid sometimes but he was good with solving certain things I found really hard.

“What? That’s all I get?”

I gave him a flat look. “What do you want?”

“A kiss,” he answered wiggling his eyebrows and I scoffed looking away from him.

“Go away. I have to study for test.” I dismissed him.

“But the test is three weeks later.” He protested.

“And I’m not good with Chemistry so leave me alone to study.”

“I can tutor you if you want me to.”

“I don’t want you to. Now leave me alone.”

“Okay, I won’t tutor you. I’ll study on my own and leave you to study on your own.” He didn’t budge from his place and started studying.

After several minutes of silence and pages flipping, we were interrupted by Blade's friend. He was the same boy who had shoved me in class a few days ago.

Conner Johnson

“Hey Blade, wanna join us for Boys night out?” He casually sat on the chair beside Blade. He didn’t notice me sitting across from Blade.

“I’m not in mood tonight.” He muttered not really liking the idea.

“Come on dude. I swear we’ll not leave you with any wanton girl tonight like we did the previous time.”

“I’m still not going.”

“We will go bowling. And then we will do graffiti painting. Doesn’t that sound amazing?”

“Not to me.”

“We will go to play arcade. What do you think about it?”

“Still not going.”

Connor groaned in frustration. “Listen, if you don’t come tonight then I will kiss Ashley.” He challenged. That surely got my attention and I raised my eyebrows in question. The blonde still hadn’t seen me as he kept on talking.

Blade narrowed his eyes at Connor and flicked them to me before turning his gaze back to his friend. He wanted to tell the oblivious boy I was sitting there but Conner wasn't shutting his mouth.

“I’ll take her on a date and then kiss her senseless that she’ll never forget my name. Then I’ll make her my girlfriend and you’ll spend your life as a heartbroken playboy.” Connor stated. He then stroked his chin with index finger. “Actually, considering you, it’d be celibate since you refuse to even look at any other girl except for Ashley Donalds.”

I looked at Blade who had surprisingly pink hue on his pale skin. He was… blushing?

I knew Blade was cute. He looked cute. But that cute?

“Shut up Connor.”

“Why would I shut up? You’ll realize the importance of your friend when I’ll steal her from you.”

“Oh really?” I spoke with amusement clear in my voice.

“Yeah, I will-“ Connor stopped suddenly and his eyes widened when he noticed that it was not Blade who spoke. He gulped and slowly turned to look at me. When his eyes met mine, he laughed nervously.