Kissing in Cars

Chapter 5

He was staring at me.

Like every period we had together for the past two days. Turns out that on Monday he actually did skip the periods after lunch because the next day I had the unfortunate pleasure of seeing Chris walk into my last period of the day, math. And as soon as he spotted me his eyes never left me. I think he was hoping for me to one day confront him but I wouldn't give him that satisfaction. Instead, I didn't even glance his way.

This was the game we played for the next two days. Now it was Thursday and we were sitting in math and I was struggling with telling him to leave me alone. It was getting nerve racking, having someone watching and analyzing your every move 24/7. After what seemed like forever, the class finally started.

"Alright everyone, settle down." The class immediately quieted. The thing about my math teacher was he didn't screw around. He was a chill guy, so chill that he preferred his students to call him by his first name, Blake. He had this almost stoner look to him, with shoulder length black hair and a really laid back vibe. He didn't give us a lot of work and pretty much let us do whatever so when he actually told us to do something we did it. It was almost like a silent agreement. It was never said but we all never dared get out of line. I guess since we were his advanced class it was expected that we act mature.

"So tomorrow I'm going to give you an assignment, an essay about an assigned mathematician." Everyone quite audibly groaned and Blake just smirked. "Unless," he said getting all of our attention. "you solve this super complex math problem." He then began passing out a piece of paper with a single problem on it. However, the problem looked nearly impossible and I couldn't see myself finishing it within the next week, not to mention the next 40 minutes.

"And," Blake added, "you have to solve it with the partner I assign you." Another groan from the entire class as he began reading off names.

"Emily and Hunter. Eve and Britney. Will and Jeremy. Kavya and Celestine. Matt and Chris." My hand clenched around my pen. Somehow I was not even the slightest bit surprised. For some odd reason it was clear that the universe was not on my side lately. Now, though, it would be difficult to continue ignoring him.

Soon Blake finished with the names and the class erupted into noise as people began moving next to their partners. I stayed put. If this was gonna happen then he's gonna come to me. Perhaps this was stubborn of me but in reality I just really didn't want to speak to him sooner than I had to. A couple seconds later, though, he plopped into a seat on my right and slid his desk next to mine.

"Hey, partner!" he said cheerily and I just rolled my eyes.

"Let's just get this over with," I muttered and began copying the problem into my notebook. Sighing, Chris followed suit and so we began deciphering the problem in silence. I could see him occasionally glance my way but every time I'd ignore him. Eventually he spoke up.

"Hey, wait-"

"I'd rather words not come out of your mouth right now," I snapped not even looking up.

"Someone's sassy," he chuckled.

"I'm not sassy," I muttered.

"Ya, you are," he declared and I sighed.

"Fine, whatever. I don't wanna talk to you."

"But-"

"No! I don't wanna hear whatever stupid apology you have or whatever. It's done, I'm done. I said I don't want to talk to you and that means I want you to shut up, okay?" I looked him straight into his eye just to make sure I got the message across. He looked back at me with just as much intensity.

"All I wanted to say," he said slowly, "was that you made a mistake on the problem." I glanced down to where he was pointing and saw that he was right. I added when I was suppose to multiply. My cheeks grew hot as I quickly directed my attention to the stupid mistake.