Beautiful Secret

The Divine Touch

It had been a few weeks since the accident.

Ella was sitting in her first art class of the year. She had managed to find a seat in the middle of the class next to a blonde girl with blue highlights. Watching the increasing amount of people walking into class, she noticed that most of the students were delinquents, outcasts and rebels. Those that were popular or 'normal' only attended because they were too stupid to take subjects like core math or science. Ella was not in this situation at all, in fact she was one of the top achievers in her old school. She just had a burning passion for art.

Most of the class had entered the room and were sitting on their desks chatting loudly to one another. They all probably know each other from previous years, Ella thought to herself as she sat quietly alone at her desk. Lost in her hopeless thoughts, she almost didn't notice the dark-haired boy at the back of the class. Could it be?

As if he could sense her gaze like it was ice being poured down his back, he turned his head toward her.

It was Ander.

Ella involuntarily gasped out loud. He was in her art class! This year was going to be so awkward for her. She didn't notice that they were still gazing into each other's eyes until the blonde girl sitting at the desk to her right leaned over and nudged her.

"I couldn't help but notice the obvious eye sex going on between you and Mr Mystery" the blonde whispered to her.

Ella, trying very hard to control the wave of embarrassed giggles surfacing to her throat, ripped her eyes off of Ander and turned to her side to inspect the intruder of her privacy.

"You must be Ella" the girl said enthusiastically, "I'm Euri, total metal head".

"How did you know my name?" Ella asked.

"You're the new girl plus you were in that car accident weren't you?" Her tone grew serious.

Ella looked away, remembering all the mysteries of that horrid day. "Yeah" she muttered under her breath.

Euri was about to start apologizing when the loud bang of a door being shut interrupted her.

It must have interrupted the whole classes' conversations because everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at the doorway.

A tall young man with long dark curly hair walked in.

He was so handsome that every female student, even some of the boys, were gawking at the beauty standing before them.

"Good morning class, I am Mr Séduire (pronounced: seh-duah) and I will be your art teacher for the year." Every girl in the classroom was now hooked on his satin-like husky voice that was lightly laced with a noble French accent.

"I'd like all of you to start with your first assignment this semester. I want everyone to get an A3 sheet of paper at the back of the class and begin drawing the outline of whatever object or person you'd like to create. Once you've completed the basic foundation of the drawing, you are to cross-hatch the object until it looks 3D."

His voice beamed gracefully across the room, leaving everyone silent and doing as they were told.

A boy with bright orange hair angrily shouted out, "This is bullshit, where did Miss Delaney go!"

Everyone looked at him for a few seconds before resuming with what they were doing.

Mr Séduire walked over to the boy's desk, leaned towards him and whispered something in his ear. The boy's eyes grew wide with horror and he silently sunk deep into his seat, not saying a single word more for the entire lesson.

Ella decided to draw 'The Divine Touch' by Michael Angelo. Knowing that she had nothing better to do, she began sketching the shape of the masterpiece, her brain blocking out everything around her.

Her concentration was soon interrupted by a presence that loomed over her paper. She looked up and saw the handsome French teacher looking at her work, analyzing it carefully. Saying absolutely nothing, he moved his gaze to her eyes, staring softly. She could almost see the gears moving in his brain and his beautifully bright blue eyes moving back and forth between her right and left eyes.

"Well done" he said softly before walking away to look at other artworks.

Ella looked to Ander's direction and saw that he was glaring at Mr Séduire with a hatred that only manifests within the most hateful of spirits. She looked away.

Euri stared at Ella with wide eyes and her mouth gaping open.

"Omg he totally wants you" she said with a little bit of jealousy in her voice. A jolt of adrenaline rushed through Ella's body all the way to her finger tips.

"I'm pretty sure that's not the case, he's a teacher!" Ella replied.

The bell rang soon afterwards.

Everyone packed away their things and stood up waiting to be dismissed.

"Class dismissed" Mr Séduire said before everyone loudly left the class.

Euri pulled Ella outside the classroom. "Meet me at table 21 in the cafeteria tomorrow at break" she said with a grin on her face before walking off with a brunette boy who wore far too much eyeliner.

Had Ella possibly made her first friend?

*hi everyone, thank you all for being so patient. When I wrote chapter 8, my tablet's battery died before I could finish it so I lost all of the info and that's why I've taken so long to update. My deepest condolences for any spelling or grammatical errors. The book is making good progress and I suggest you stay because the good stuff is coming :) lots of love and thanks to the readers*