Groups of two. That's all I needed to hear. Why did he go beyond that? Why didn't I have my freeze ray with me right now so that I could shut up his stupid mouth forever?
I was doomed. I was going to be placed with someone I barely even made eye contact with.
Surprisingly, I was not the only person who hated this ridiculous idea of pairing two people who barely even knew each other. It was like pairing Atom to Zeus or Percy to Luke or Ashley to Camilla.
Everyone in the classroom boo-ed and made some extremely weird whining noises. God, is this class grumpy or what?
"Silence class." said Mr.Thompson as he began shuffling some papers and finally pulled out a deep cream colored sheet from his file. "You have to co-operate with the people you are paired up with."
The complaining still continued, although it was fainter now. Mr.Thompson waited calmly until all the students had glued their mouths.
He then cleared his throat and then continued in that same grumpy voice. "All the groups have to prepare a presentation.." He trailed off and the colorful words were very, well, colorful.
"It's always a presentation.", I muttered angrily under my breath. From the corner of my eye, I could see Camilla shooting death glares towards Mr.Thompson as if she wanted to burn him in a sewer. But Mr.Thompson decided to ignore that and continued AGAIN.
"Please allow me to speak, students. This will definitely be a fun filled activity for all of you so turn those frowns upside down please. This partner work will help us understand your social skills." As if Instagram and Snapchat were never invented "As well as how you work as a team."
"So without any further delay, let me call out the pairs. But before that let me tell you, no exchanging of pairs will be allowed."
The class was now listening intently to what Mr.Thompson was saying.
I-WANT-KEVIN.
"Jose with Sandra. Emily with Priyanka. Camilla with Kevin-"
"Noooo!", someone wailed. I was indeed very heartbroken by the fact that Kevin wasn't paired up with me, but apparently it was Camilla who had wailed loudly. "I can't be with him! I have a reputation in this school, okay? You can't pair me up with", she looked at Kevin with a true expression of disgust, "him."
"Camilla, like I mentioned before, no exchange of partners will be allowed. And from the previous scoresheets and my opinion too, Kevin is pretty smart. So he will surely help you to not fail."
I was so in love with Mr.Thompson. And the look of utter horror on Camilla's face for the whooping second time. Like, Kevin was infinite times smarter than her. But she had a reputation to keep. Reputation my foot. I felt this dire need to stab her with a knife sometimes, or to thrash her against a concrete wall and break her nose, or pull out a hockey stick and break her teeth, or selotape her mouth. Yes, that way she wouldn't die as well-
"With Riley. Gia with-" Wait I didn't hear him. I didn't hear who was I paired up with!
"Nooo!"' again that wasn't me that was Queen Bee.(That rhymed too.) "Andrew with Riley? This can't be happening. Andrew has to be with me, do you understand?"
Okay. Alright. What in the freaking hell is going on out here?!
I tried to calm myself down, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Mr.Thompson was looking up at Camilla with a bored expression. God, did he know that her parents were multi-billionaires who could chop of his head with a vegetable knife? Apparently, he was bonkers.
"I have to be with him. You can't pair him upwith that piece of crap.", She looked at me seethingly and turned towards the bonker sir again.
"She is right, sir.", I spoke up suddenly, although I didn't know why. People stared at me in surprise.
"oh-um-not that I am a piece of crap.", I could feel my cheeks heat up in embaressment and from the corner of my eye, I could see the slight smirk forming on Camilla'a lips. "Is it possible if-"
A boy, no scratch that, a man who entered the classroom at that exact moment made me freeze in horror. Hercules, please save me!
"You finally planned to make an emtrance in this class, Mr.Andrews.", said Mr.Thompson.
He didn't even bother replying to Mr.Thompson, as he entered the room and settled himself on the last bench.
Should I still ask him to change groups?
Most girls would kill like a werewolf to be partnered with Andrew Bowers, the son of Aphrodite. He was like the dreamboy of all girls in the school. But, I didn't know what they saw in him. His face wasn't messed up, but his brain definitely was. He treated girls like how Eugene treated Stepanida. Like a one night stand and just for fun. He wasn't the true- love or the together-forever kind of guy. He was more like tenporary-fix or the wild-wolf kind of guy. My references are weird, so don't die.
"with Riley.", Now what did I miss?!
I could see Camilla's outstretched hand, and her eyes wandering towards Andrew and eyeing him like a piece of meat. She kept whispering to him, believe me you don't want to know what she kept saying to him.
But Andrew seemed to be ignoring her, instead he slung his bag over his shoulder, walked forward to the first bench, where I was sitting, eager for somebody to kill me, and plopped down next to me.
I gulped in fear, and I could feel a knot build up in my chest. A feeling of nervousness enveloped me, as Andrew glanced at me. I quickly looked at my very interesting nails, trying to remember it's functions. I could sense his eyes burning holes, literally holes, into me.
I looked up at him, and immediately regretted it. I was mesmerized.
He had jet black that cascaded artfully along his forehead and were slightly dishevelled and messy. His bluish green seemed to transfix me as I looked deep into them.
His eyes never left mine as well and it felt like he was trying to take in each and every detail of me. Each single flaw. My eyes flickered to his lips, and damn, I knew why all the girls drooled over him. All but me. His pink lips were slightly parted and his eyes danced with amusement as I looked back up at him.
But suddenly he withdrew his head back and sneezed.
"You were dead for one second."
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Anyone here watched Fantastic Four? Where the Elastic guy runs away, but in the end comes back for his friends? I feel the same.
With love,
Riii
