Mr. Mendes

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We made it to the restaurant fairly quick considering it was only a few miles away from the school. We were sat in a booth close to the center of the restaurant where all of the tables were located. "Hey isn't it weird how that when Mendes saw us he only looked at Jess?" Nate says with his eyebrows furrowing, " Welcome to my world, he always stares at her in class and she never notices, and on top of that he always calls on her even when she isn't raising her hand." She says smirking and wiggling her eyebrows. I groan "Oh my god he is just being friendly!" I say trying to reason with my lunatics that I call friends. "Speak of the devil." Chase mutters with a scowl on his face, I turn my head to see what he's talking about and there he was standing there in all of his glory, and next to him stood a woman that looked like she was ready to walk a Victoria Secret runway instead of standing in Applebee's. Just as I am about to look away he turns his head and his eyes lock onto mine, Nate playfully nudges my side joking about something that happened a few years ago.
Nate's actions seem to make Mendes angry for some reason as his jaw clenches and his eyes narrow and his gaze is so intense the phrase "if looks could kill" has never felt more true. I brush it off and join back into the conversation at the table, the rest of our group beginning to join us and now all of our friends are here. To my left is Nate and to his left is jack, On the other side of the booth Sav, Cam, Hope, and Kaitlyn are kind of bunched together. I had to squeeze out of the booth in order to go to the bathroom, as I walk down the little hallway leading to the restrooms I bump into a muscular chest and feel familiar large hands go to my waist to stop me from falling. "Ms. Lynn, you need to start looking where your going, we don't want you getting hurt now do we?" He says his hands still on my waist, "That is definitely something that we do not want Mr. Mendes." the moment I called him Mr. Mendes a smirk began to overtake his face, growing bigger by the second. He looks behind me to see Nate's eyes watching our conversation, Mr. Mendes begins to scowl before saying a quick sarcastic "Have a nice night" before swiftly walking away.
I walk back to my table thinking as to why Mr. Mendes got so snippy with me before going into the bathroom, I hadn't done anything wrong it was almost as if something about Nate had pissed him off but I can't for the life of me figure out why. When I slide back into the booth Nate looks at me with a questioning look on his face "What was that about." He says nodding with his head towards the restrooms, "Oh that, I ran into him on my way out of the restroom. Why?", "he seemed ticked off after he saw me lookin' over there.", "Maybe he's just having a bad day." , "yeah maybe" Nate mutters.
At some point during the dinner Nate put his arm around me saying something to tease me causing all of us to throw our heads back in laughter, I look to my left to see the back of Mr. Mendes' dates head and then look over to Mr. Mendes to see him looking at me, well not at me more like Nate. The phrase if looks could kill comes to mind again as I look at Mr. Mendes, his jaw clenched, eyes narrowed onto Nate's arm, he looks extremely pissed. I flinch away from his harsh gaze and tune back into the conversation, still feeling Mr. Mendes' eyes on me.
The rest of the dinner went by fine, if you don't include all of the stares I got from Mendes the entire night. I had already dropped everyone off, and was ready to get home and go to sleep. When I walked in the door I saw my mom on the phone, she held up her hand as if to say "wait a minute", I figured that she had something to tell me so I kind of just stood there awkwardly until she was finished "Yes, thank you it means a lot, bye!", she hangs up the phone and then smiles apologetically. "I'm sorry but I just got called into an emergency business trip and I'll be gone for two weeks, now I have called Shawn and he has agreed to come stay with you and make sure you are ok, and you are going to behave for him I leave tomorrow and he will be here tomorrow night.", she says walking up the stairs to go pack. I sit there kind of in shock, my teacher is going to be staying with me for two weeks, my very ATTRACTIVE teacher was coming to stay with me for two weeks.
  I wake up the next morning to find my mom already gone with the keys on the table along with four hundred dollars for the two weeks that I will be home alone, well not alone, but you know alone. I sighed heavily and then quickly got dressed for school, I was feeling good today so I got dressed in a really cute outfit including ripped high wasted jeans and a cute crop top.
  I pulled into the school and had to go to Mr. Mendes' classroom or Shawn as my mom calls him to give him the keys to the house for the next two weeks, this was going to be awkward. I walked into the classroom lightly knocking on the door to let him no I was entering, he looked up from the papers he was grading and smiled when he saw me " May I help you Jessica?" he said kindly. "Oh my god you didn't call me Ms. Lynn!" I said playfully and he chuckled "oh yes, my mom asked me to give you these since you are staying for the next two weeks." I say as I hand over the keys to him "Thank you Jessica I'll see you in class." He says smiling leading me out of the classroom. "Your welcome, and goodbye I'll see you in class." I begin my way to my first class not wanting to be late. The first few periods were ok, I mean they weren't great, kind of exhausting, but ok. Sav, Nate, and I were on our  way to Mendes' class, Nate tagged along to talk to us for the walk there, we stopped outside the door to bid farewell to Nate before he went to his class, but before we could say goodbye we were interrupted by a voice "Nate I don't have you until next period so you might want to get to class and stop distracting my students." He says sounding angry me and Sav exchange looks of both confusion and shock at his new tone, "Yes sir" Nate says mock saluting making Mendes even more pissed off "Nate if you don't get to class right now I will give you detention for a week." I gasp at his remark, him practically seething in anger. "Mr. Mendes Nate  was just walking up to class, he didn't do anything wrong." I say back defending Nate, Mr. Mendes seems to grow even more pissed off before he seethes "That's it detention, Nate one hour, Jessica for that response you've got two!". Okay seriously what the hell is his problem, all he did was walk us to class, I take a deep breathe controlling my anger and walk to my seat and sit down.
  This is going to be a long detention, and an even longer two weeks. I groan in annoyance before pulling out the books I needed for class.