My Tutor=My New Neighbor!

chapter 3

next day

After school

Just as mom wanted, I went back to my house for meeting my new tutor. I could have easily went to Meg's place and stay there for whole day but I thought I should just face the music, rather than wasting my time in irritating my mom. 

My mobile rang as I opened my door, knowing it would be mom, I picked up without seing the caller id,

"Sweety Taylor will be there in few minutes. You might want to get freshen up. He just wants to personally meet you today and explain you few things, then he will leave. But he will be teaching you from tomorrow" Mom stated without asking where I was. The fact that she trusts me enough not run away always encourages me.

"Ok mom" I said and ended the call.

I changed my clothes and got freshened up. I thought to wait up in my room for Taylor, but my stomach had other plans. As I was making my way downwards , I heard our door bell ring.

"wait" I yelled, rushing down to the door. I quickly opened it, to find Taylor standing there with a bag over his shoulder. 

"come in" I said, making some space for him to enter, then locked the door.

"Hello Liz" he said.

  "You hungry? I was just going to grab myself some noodles which mom cooked" I asked him.

"No, I'm good, I'm here to talk. It'll take few minutes then you eat, if you don't mind?" he asked wit an urgency in his voice.

"ok cool then."

"so I'm here to help you with your academics subject. I'll be here to get your grades up and help you in understanding every topic" he started.

"I don't want or need your help," I stated,"And I don't like you intruding on my life either."

"Thats ok Liz, you don't have to like me," he said.

"Good then leave!" I ordered.

"Well Liz I'm afraid I can't do that. You don't have to like me but I am going to be here from tom, to get you in understanding every topic. All you have to do is understand me and if you can't , then I'll try another method to make you understand" he said.

What part of  'I don't want or need your help' and 'I don't like you intruding on my life either' he doesn't understand? It's plain English for God's sake.

" Liz,  I am here to help you out with the trouble with grades that you seem to be getting into lately." he continued.

Whatever you idiot!

"You know you're just wasting your time here, I really don't want your help with anything, and I don't need any one tutoring me, I can do better without any interference" I said ,"Why do you do this anyway?"

"I just do it because I feel like sometimes kids need proper direction and if given, they can do better. There are negative and positive things out there to influence you, and everyone knows it's hard to fight negativity. I want them to go for positivity" he replied. "You know your mom ares for you, and she's worried about your grades and your future"

"I know that" I replied with a little anger behind my voice. "And Won't you tattle everything to my mom like every tutor?" I said with a laugh.

"I won't tattle you, to your mom Liz. Whatever you say, stays between us. You can trust me with it, I promise. But can you think about the troubles you have been, with grades." He asked.

"I don't know." I said, 
"As a 3rd grader you were a straight A student, but now you are failing. You have been put in detention for skipping,(several times) suspended for fighting, and you just got F in all subjects but to me all of that is erased as far as I'm concerned, with me we start with a clean slate, however your mom loves you and she is worried. She wants you to straighten up and that's why I'm here." He replied. "so what changed now?"

"I am officially done with it" I replied. "By the way, How many kids are you tutoring besides me right now."

"Well right now it's just you Liz, rest are doing good and don't need much of my time" He replied." I have some other things that I am responsible to take care of. Here is my phone number and if you ever want to talk about anything at all, just call me, but Liz you didn't answer my question, why the change? do you know?" 

He handed me a little card with his name and phone number on it. This dude wasn't all that bad. not stupid by any means, but he was still about to learn that I do what I want to.

"Please, leave me alone." I replied.

"Well we can talk more about that later, but before I leave I want you to think about something," he said, "And I will want to talk about it tomorrow when I come back."

"You're coming back tomorrow?" I asked.

"Liz we will be seeing each other every day for a while," he replied

"Ok, whats my assignment," I said in a very misery stricken voice.

"It's not the end of your life, so don't say it like it is," He scolded. "Try it again,"

Wow what a change in his tone. It sort of caught me off guard, even scared me a little. His voice was very authoritative when he wanted it to be.

"What do you want me to do Taylor," I asked in a much nicer voice.

"Thats much better, he replied, negative attitude only brings you down Liz" he stated. "I want you to think about how today made you feel. How you felt this morning as opposed to how you feel now . Remember Liz, Truth and trust is the most important thing. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So be honest and respect me, I'll give you same in return" he said.

I wasn't dumb, I knew he was saying all that for my benefit. He patted me on the head and walked to his car. I sat there on the lawn, wondering what I was going to do about him, he was nice but he could definately put a stop into my social life. I had alot of thinking to do, but now I had to make a phone call before Megan died of curiousity. When I got inside, I had to call Megan and tell her all about Taylor.

That night I sat at the table and had dinner with my mom, but when she asked me how things went with Taylor, I acted like I was unhappy about being forced to endure such a terrible invasion of my privacy. That night I went to bed early cause I wanted to think. Not about what I was told to think about, because all I could think about was how weird it was to have such a cute dude interested in me. I fell asleep with a smile on my face.
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