that's a birthday au for my barbara btw
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Focus on me
Luna sighs, sitting on her usual chair in this class, doodling in her notebook and wondering who she's gonna have physics with. She got a mail last night, from her usual physics professor saying that they are starting new semester with ta he picked himself and Luna has been lowkey anxious, because the prof likes her and he is chill, while the new guy can be a psycho, or hate her, or hate everyone.
Brunette bites on her lower lip, tracing today's date in her notebook with pen for third or fourth time when the door opens. She doesn't really look up, focused on finishing the month numbers and when she's done, she writes the date once again under the first one. Valente can see the guy with corner of her eye, but it's not like she cares much so she gives up on listening to him. All she needs is to pass and listening to some weird snobby physics student after graduation isn't required to get her grade.
His voice is somewhere in the background and it's nice voice; Luna likes the sound of it itself, not trying to recognize words. She is by maybe fourteenth date of today when Pedro sitting next to her, pokes her on the ribs and makes her jump.
She immediately looks around, focusing on her friend who just points with his chin towards the desk. Guy leaning back against it watches her with crossed arms and small smirk. His eyebrows are raised slightly and he looks almost amused.
"What's her name?" he asks someone from first row and when he gets an answer he licks his lips. Brunette is speechless, thinking that she's fucked; it hasn't been even ten minutes of the class and the guy remembers her and knows her name, and this isn't any good in her case.
"Luna," her ta says, having probably very much fun, judging by the way her name rolled off his tongue. "Did you hear what I said?"
She bites on her lower lip a little too hard when he is waiting for her to say anything. The only thing Luna can do now is shake her head, making her hair bounce around her face, and shrug. "Not really."
"And why is that?"
"I wasn't listening," brunette admits softly, her eyes going straight to him and he smiles widely looking away, shaking his head and she is completely lost.
"Well-" he checks the watch on his wrist. "We don't have enough time to investigate what was so boring, but for next time I'd recommend listening to me." He winks at her lazily and turns towards the group, putting his hands into the pockets of his black pants. Luna focuses on his person enough, so she can't hear anything he says, but she manages to eye up all of his body and she can swear that she sees herself failing this semester. That's like one hundred percent sure if he will be wearing white shirt like this, and even if he wouldn't he still has this face; she isn't able to focus on watching and listening to him at the same time.
"Anyway, you can just call me Matteo, unless the professor comes over, because he would probably kick me out of here." He chuckles softly, bless the fact Luna catches those words; at least now she knows how to call him in her head.
It would be great actually, but Matteo turns to her with the most smug smirk she has ever seen. "Do you understand, Luna?"
He is hot, yes, yet she hates him already.
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Luna runs towards the class quickly. She is late, and fucked and even more late, cursing on the building and her bus and the fact she overslept. This is completely normal for her, but today is Tuesday and it means eight am physics with Balsano, and he is gonna just look at her amused, telling her to sit down and listen. He always tells her to listen, remembering perfectly how she ignored him first day and Luna is still wondering if it's because he is just mean, or maybe his snobby ego got hurt. Not that she cares, but it's tiring and annoying and honestly the biggest advantage of the fact he is teaching her is the fact that she can stare at him without being judged. It doesn't matter if he is walking around the class, if he's just half sitting on his desk or writing something on the board, there's always something to look at and Luna Valente isn't the one to deny herself the only pleasure of those classes.
