Break The Best Friends

Chapter 25

As the day progressed, I couldn't help but think that there was something very big waiting for me out there at the end of the day. It was a gut instinct, one that I couldn't shake off so easily. The only thing that I was not sure about was whether this something was a good one or a bad one. That was the real question.

As my Algebra class started – the last class of the day – I couldn't help but let the anxiety of my instinct grip me harder than I thought was imaginable. Ryder next to me, misunderstanding that my anxiety was because of our previous fight kept on apologizing to me for saying what he had told me yesterday.

Yeah, not helping at all, Ryder!

"For the last time, Ryder! Stop apologizing!" I hissed at him as my Algebra teacher turned towards the board. Using that as a distraction, I turned to the idiot sitting next to me with a frown and clarified, "It is not you. I am just feeling restless."

"About what?" his frown only deepened as he took in my really distraught expression.

"I don't know," I frowned at his frown, "I am not sure. I just have this gut feeling that something big is waiting for me."

Ryder took a few seconds as if to process what I just said, before he shot me a small smile, opening his mouth to say something only for him to be cut off Mrs. Gerlos, "Do you have anything to share with us, Miss Harper? Mr. Daniels, why don't you tell us all here what you were discussing there with Miss Harper just now when I was teaching a very important problem over here?"

Ryder's head snapped to the front as did mine to see that our teacher had turned away from the board and was now looking at the both of us with a stern expression on her face. Uh-Oh! We were so dead! She hates it if her students talk in the middle of her class. It is the greatest distraction to the others inside the class and an utmost insult to a teacher, she says.

"Um," Ryder gulped having hated being put on the spot by Mrs. Gerlos, "We were just discussing about the importance of Algebra," he swallowed hard under her disbelieving look before adding, "Ask Caroline, mam!"

Way to through me to the wolves, Daniels.

My eyes widened as I looked at our teacher who was now looking at me with a stern look on her face. She was questioning me through her eyes about what we were just talking about. I glared at Ryder, I am so going to kill you!

He shrugged at me, looking unapologetic as ever, you have to get out of here alive for that first.

"What is it, Miss Harper?" Mrs. Gerlos's patience was wearing thin as she glared at me, "What were you both talking about? Care to give us some light on the topic."

Nah, I'll pass, thank you.

"Anytime now, Miss Harper?" she hissed at me when I refused to open my mouth and answer her question.

I know that it is her last straw of patience and if I wanted to survive, I know that I should open my mouth now and talk. "Um, we... er..." I looked at Ryder who looked smug and at the last minute decided with a smirk that I wanted to erase off his smug look, "Ryder just wanted me to keep talking as he was feeling sleepy."

Ryder's eyes shot wide open at my accusation and he sat up straight looking at me with a look that could kill. He was asking for it anyway, he shouldn't have pulled my leg and tripped me into the pit with the She-Devil of an Algebra teacher in it.

"Mr. Daniels," Mrs. Gerlos' tone held disappointment, "Must you always sleep in my class?"

"Nah, it is pretty much involuntary," he said and then he realized his slip up as he shook his head at her and said, "I am sorry, Mrs. Gerlos. It won't happen again."