The Teachers Assistant

chapter 9 part 1

Do you ever just get the feeling like someone's staring at you? Well, I'm getting that feeling right about now. In fact, I woke up to that feeling. I stretch a little and I turn over and see Drake just staring me down.

"What, no good morning?" I tease.

He had this serious look on his face, he’s staring at my arm and I just look at him confused. I then decide to look down at my arm and notice I have a bruised hand print on my arm. I look at my other arm and notice I have one there too.   Drake puts his hands on the imprint but they aren't the same size. I know whose hand prints they are too; they are Mark's from when we were in the shower yesterday. I always knew he was rough with me but I guess yesterday he just was a little too rough.

"So are you going to tell me who gave you the bruises on your arms and the one on your thigh too?" he asks, a little ticked.

"Drake..." I begin to say.

"Eve, are you cheating on me?" he says, I can tell he's hurting.

"Drake I... I wasn't cheating on you.  Sofia and I got into a fight yesterday. She pinned me down and had her arms on mine. She was trying to punch me but I was strong enough to not let her. The bruise on my thigh is from when she kneeled down on it when she had me pinned down." I say, that was the best lie I could come up with. It scared me at how much I had been lying to him lately.

"Eve, the bruise on your leg is a bite mark. Now I know that you cheated on me and have been lying to me. I've been a little suspicious ever since you got those random flowers in your classroom yesterday.  I'm sorry but I can't be in a relationship with a cheater and a liar.” He gets out of bed and starts grabbing all the clothes from his drawers and puts some of them on. He grabs the rest of the clothes and starts walking out. “I’m sorry Everett but this relationship is over. I can't believe this." he says then walks out.

Surprisingly though I'm not as hurt as I should have been about this situation. Was it because I knew I had a guy to fall back on or was it truly because I wasn't in love with Drake like I had thought?  I mean now we are probably never going to talk again but at least I’m not going to have to keep lying to him anymore. I feel bad but then I don't. What was wrong with me? I mean if you end up cheating on someone and end up loving both you should always pick the second one because if you truly loved the first guy you wouldn’t have ended up cheating on him with the second.

I get out of bed and decide to go and take a shower before I would have to get to work. I hear the bathroom door creek open and assume its Drake coming back. I honestly didn’t even know what I could say to him at this point if he did come back for me.

"Hey, so I heard what happened?  If it makes you feel any better I walked in on him making out with Miss. Martin about four days ago. I just didn't tell you because I figured he should tell you himself. So I mean he's a cheater too." Mark says.

He walks over and puts the toilet seat down and sits on it. He clasps his hands together and looks up staring at the blank bathroom wall. I giggle a little.

"What you’re not going to come in and join me? Aren’t you glad about your victory? You just won me all to yourself." I remind him. I’m about to grab the shampoo bottle but remember who badly that went last time so I just decide on washing my self first.

"I am happy but I just thought that you would be a little more heart broken about this situation." he tells me.

"Ahh, I mean I guess I never really loved him like I thought I did." I say truthfully.

"So then can I come in?” Mark asks. I look at him and he’s eyeing me up and down smiling like a fat kid in a candy store or even me in that candy store.