Teacher | j.m z.h d.s

Chapter 4: "Studying"

"Mr. Marais?" I say as I stare at him, wondering why he stopped at MY house.
"Riliee I wanted to just show you a few things in the subject we were talking about in your private lesson. I also wanted to ask you parents if you could take private lessons every Wednesday," He while fidgeting with is brief case. I open the door a little wider. I always thought that Mr. Marais was a hot teacher, but most kids do.

Mr. Marais walks in the door and and puts his brief case on the kitchen table. He opens it and pulls out some papers. "Ok so you still aren't understanding how to pronounce bigger words. Or spell them." "Well sir I mean it is bigger words than what I'm used too," I say trying to clean the kitchen table as fast as I can without making it obvious. " Well I don't think your studying..." " Well I'm super busy with family and stuff. I- I just don't have the time..," I say while cleaning some dishes left from last night dinner. "Ok well I want to study with you right now. You seem busy..," He looks up and sees me holding a dirty plate with gloves on. " I'm very busy."

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"YEAH! You did it! High-Five!" Me and Mr. Marais high five. " You know the words so well I beat you could spell them in your sleep!" He smiles. It's been about and hour and my mom and Dad didn't get home yet. "Thank you so much Mr. Marais!" "No... Call me Jonah," He says as he puts his hand on my upper thigh.

I stand up real fast. "Uhhhhh I'm sorry you need to leave," I say walking to the door. "Oh umm ok," he says gathering his papers and putting them in his brief case. Put closes it and starts walking to the door. I close the door before he could say anything.

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My mom gets home about an hour later. I hear the garage door open and I walk to the garage door. I unlock it and walk outside to help her grab the groceries. "Hey hunny!" "Hey Mom! How was your day," I say grabbing a few bags. "Good! So Mr. Marais texted me! He asked me for you to do free private lessons on Wednesday," once she says Mr. Marais I froze. "Hunny you ok?" "No yeah I'm fine," I say while knocking out of the froze stage.

We put away the groceries in the pantry. We start to make dinner. "Riliee, please chop up the onions and then the tomatoes." "Sure mom! Ima go upstairs and grab my phone real fast," I say while walking past the knifes and grabbing one out. I walk up the stairs and see a text message from an unknown number. It said "Hey...." I replied "Who are you?...." "Jonah... or Mr. Marais...."