You Shouldn't Love Me

Chapter 4: Jealousy

“I shouldn’t have done that…” he told me leaning into the sofa.

“Then why did you?” I asked confused by the whole situation whilst resisting kissing him.

“I don’t know I just couldn’t resist and then here you are all vulnerable and most importantly my student, this cannot happen ever again.” He informed grabbing my hand and looking deep into my eyes.

“Fine.” I told him and I got up and starting packing all of Dylan’s stuff up so we could go.

“What are you doing? You’re leaving just because of this, Ava you’ve got to understand I wish it was different. If I wasn’t your teacher…" he started.

“Yes whatever if you weren’t my teacher… but the difference is if I wasn’t your student you would run a mile because of Dylan.” I told him matter-of-factly and he just looked at me sorrowfully and I just ignored the look and placed Dylan’s bag on the pushchair and went into the bedroom and quietly and slowly picked me up from where he was sleeping and I walked back into the other room without making eye contact with Adam. I then placed Dylan into his pushchair and strapped him in before grabbing my phone from the table we had eaten at and then started walking out.

“Bye Mr Stone.” I told him spitefully and left the house and made the hour journey back home. When I got home I went straight upstairs whilst mum put Dylan into his cot thankfully as I just wanted to curl up into a ball and cry. How could I have been so stupid, there was no way he’d ever have feelings for me, I mean come on I’m a single mother for crying out loud. I went straight to sleep once I was happy that my mum and sister were in bed too.

The next morning I felt better having spent the whole night thinking about what Adam had said and had decided the only way was to play dirty, I was going to make him jealous with my ex-boyfriend. Jamie and I had gone out last year before the incident and had only broken up because I couldn’t hope with it all, I’m sure he’d leap at the chance to try it all again.

Once it was a reasonable time to get up I ran into Emma’s room and jumped on her bed waking her up in the process.

“MORNINGGGG.” I announced cheerfully.

“Someone’s too happy for this time of the morning.” She informed me grumpily. “Why are you so happy? Please tell me you haven’t had coffee already this morning?” she asked hopeful that she would gather some gossip. No such luck ma sistaaaa.

“I guess it’s just the thought of a new day and for your information I have had zero cups of coffee. “ I informed her wagging my finger at her before skipping out of her room and into the bathroom. Once I had finished my shower I went into my room to pick out the cutest outfit I could which I’ll admit took quite a while. Eventually I picked out a cute white crochet three quarter sleeve dress and brown belt which I paired with some brown cut out brogue shoes, I had to admit I looked the nicest I had since Dylan had been born. Once I was dressed I quickly applied some simple makeup before drying my hair so that it was naturally curly, I then walked downstairs where mum was sat with Dylan watching In the Night Garden a he giggled away at the screen. I headed into the kitchen and grabbed myself a piece of toast with a small amount of butter spread on it and ate it as quickly as possible. Just as I was finishing up Emma walked in glaring at me and I just flashed her a million watt smile just to annoy her even more. She then stuffed some toast in her own mouth and we headed into the living room where I grabbed Dylan and gave him a massive kiss goodbye and then placed him back into my mum’s arms.

“Bye mum, Dylan behave.” I told mum before blowing Dylan a kiss and he giggled which sent a smile to spread across my face.  We then headed outside where April was waiting by our car and I looked back at our door. “I wish I didn’t miss him so much.” I informed the others as I was dragged into the car by Emma who was extremely grumpy thanks to her early awakening this morning.