In Love With Mr. Green [student/teacher relationship]

Chapter 17

I pulled my knees up to my chest and rested my forehead against them, feeling my eyes getting heavier and heavier.  The nurses wouldn't let me in to see Jack, so I had been sat outside his room on a chair for god knows how long.

"Grace" I heard from down the corridor, my head shot up and I saw Jason walking towards me,  his walk was calm but his face said worry.  I stood up to greet him, as he got nearer I couldn't help the tears forming and spilling down my face, he stood in front of me and I wrapped my arms around him, I felt him tense up for a moment but relax in to it, "where is he?" he whispered in to my hair,

"in there" my voice croaked, "but I'm not allowed in yet, it's so nice to see a familiar face" I pulled away and slumped back down on my chair, pulling my knees up to my chin again.  Jason sat next to me and sighed.  The police at the elevator caught our eye when Jason quickly turned to me,

"we're dating, I had to take care of Jack and took you with me cause we were going to spend the day together.  You're upset because he's your best teacher.  Anything you and Jack have ever done, replace his name with mine.  I catch up easy and I know most things" Jason draped his arm over my shoulders, a few seconds later, the police officers were right in front of us,

"Hello,  Grace Bailey?"

"y-yes" I whispered and stood up

"I'm officer Davies and this is officer Geraldson,  I understand this is an overwhelming time but would it be alright if we had a word?" I glanced down at Jason and then back at Jack's room,

"um...okay...how long will we be?"

"do you want me to come with you?" Jason asked, standing up behind me and resting his hand on my hip

"that's alright, we'll only be down the hall.  Not long" Officer Davies shot him a brief smile and nodded in the direction we were supposed to head in,

"i'll uh, see you in a bit" I said quietly, Jason pecked the top of my head.

"mind telling me what that was?" I whispered to Jason as I sat back down.  The police had questioned me about everything that had gone on, I obviously had to leave out most parts, for example, why this guy wanted to break in in the first place.

"what? what what was?" Jason frowned and looked down at me

"the kiss? the hand on my waist? very professional" I scoffed

"I was saving your ass, you should be saying thank you"

"thank you? my boyfriend is lying unconscious in a hospital bed and I should say thank you to you, who was taking advantage of me?" Jason laughed and sat back in his chair,

"taking advantage? you're funny Grace"

"well we could have just said we were friends? Now we have to keep up this fake relationship the whole time we're here"  Jason sighed and rolled his head over to look at me,

"so when the police do some snooping round, when they finally grow suspicious of you and your teacher, they'll probably start asking questions, maybe to friends, family if they find them.  Now remember earlier we saw your friend outside the school and you said she probably now thinks we're dating? There's our first witness" Jason went back to looking at the ceiling, he was right, but I was not going to admit that, especially to him.  It was silent for a few minutes when he said quietly, "thank you Jason"

"what do you mean..'family if they find them'?" I frowned

"your family isn't around, so if they find them, they'll probably ask them questions"

"how do you know about my family?"

"There's very much you don't know about me Grace" he smirked.

"you look beautiful" Jack mumbled in his croaky raspy voice.  He'd finally woken up and I'd been sat next to his bed waiting for hours since I was allowed in.

"Jack" I smiled at him and pecked his head gently, "do you need anything?" I whispered,

"only you"

"stop" I smiled and rolled my eyes playfully.

"no I'm serious, I had a really nice dream..." he smiled at me, his eyes only just open and his voice still raspy

"I hope I was in it" Jason said from the other side of the room before walking over to us, "how you feeling?"

"gutted, literally" Jack laughed and we both smiled at him.