A Tale of Love (EXCHANGE LOVE #1)

Dreamy shitting jerk

Sophie

  This past weeks have been really weird, don't get me wrong, every single person in this school has been nothing but nice to me, but I haven't made that many friends, all the guys and girls just talk to me for a minute and then they just go. Well with one exception, Ivan Pratt the only guy that has been nice to me without treating me like a piece of meat, he is my one friend in this place, we have gotten close in the two weeks, he was kind enough to show me around. I really hope to find some more friends here, but hopefully no more guys cause I can't fall in love again, not after last time. I mustn't like anyone in this school, that way it will be easy and no more bad things will happen.

Today's classes ended and I was walking to my car when I heard someone call my name, I turned around and said "Oui Did you call me?" looking straight into the guys eyes that just called me, and he just stood there staring at me, I think I might know him.

"Hello? are you ok?, do you need help?"I said getting worried, maybe he is sick or something, but then he answered me getting tongue tied on his own words. "Yeah, me good, I AM good , ah..my na-name Alexander, and I wanted to ask you something, I- shit am sorry I didn't mean to curse" he kept rambling getting all red "I mean.. sorry I got distracted. My name is Alexander Andretti, and I have been meaning to talk to you for a few days now, we have Literature history together" just as I thought I thought I do know him, he is the guy that kept staring at me on my first day, I haven't seen him much since then.

"Yes of course, Alexander I remember you,  what did you need?" I asked him taking a good look up close of him, I though he was just a handsome pig ogling me the first time I saw him, but now that he talked to me all nervous, I think I might just have misjudged him then, he is kinda cute.

"Yes well I wanted to see if you could help me with our assignment for miss Baxton class, cause I heard that it's in pairs and I don't have a partner " well that's surprising, I actually had forgotten all about that, and I don't actually have a partner either, this seems perfect so I said "Sure Alexander I'd love to, I haven't got  a partner yet either, you know since I don't know that many people"

Suddenly it remembered that it must be late and I haven't gotten dinner ready for dad and Gabe, fudge I have to go!

"Oh god  but I have to go home now to make dinner, would you like to come over so that we can start the assignment together today?, or we could meet at the school library tomorrow, since its due on Friday and today is Tuesday I guess we don't have that much time" I said checking the calendar in my phone.

"Of course let's go, I'll follow you in my car" he said not missing a beat.

It was almost 6 when we arrived at the house, i grabbed my keys to get the door with Alexander on my tail. I invited him in and we placed all of our stuff by the entry.

We took our notebooks and headed inside the kitchen.

"You have a beautiful home Sophie" he said taking a seat in the kitchen counter seats.

"Thank you Alex, can I call you Alex? or do you have any other nickname you like?" I asked getting curios about him.

"Of course, you can call me anything you like" he said little too happy.

"Well then Alex it is, how about you start getting some information about troy from the material we have while I start the meal, I think I have some useful notes in my notebook too. And then after dinner we could try and start writing this thing. Does that sound good? " I asked him taking the fresh pasta from the fridge I made yesterday.

"Yes, it sound perfect'" he said nodding. "awesome. I have to ask though are you allergic to something Alex? and do you like pasta?" I asked just in case, cause as my mother always says better be safe than sorry.

"Well am Italian so pasta is one of my favorites, and don't worry I don't have any allergies" he said happily, I don't think he could have smiled bigger if he tried.

He really is a sweet guy, I smiled at him and got to work making the mushroom creamy sauce and boiling the spaghetti.

We made some small talk while he looked trough the books and he kept on asking me little questions like my favorite color which is white, and I asked him his and he said blue and red, then he asked about my family and I told him all about how I left my home, to live here with dad and my brother so that my mom could continue her clothing business. and he told me about his father and how much he loved driving his cars, turns out his dad is a famous race car driver that I actually knew about, but I didn't mentioned that.

For the next few minutes we kept talking about little stuff about school and the project when the kitchen door flew open and in came my dad and brother. "SoSo AM HUNGRY! feed me please sister dearest"

"Gabriel stop making your sister work i'll make you som-..'" my dad stopped talking and stared at Alexander sitting in the counter, Gabe seemed to notice him then too and before they could say anything else I said "Hey guys! have seat I got some pasta ready, Dad, Gabe this is Alexander Andretti, he is my partner in one of my classes and we have a paper to write together so I invited him over for dinner" both of them nodded and greeted him.

"Hello there son, nice to meet you" my dad said shaking his hand. "Hi sir, thank you for having me"

"Sup Alexander, am Gabriel her brother" he gave him a really awkward side hug.

"Hey man, nice to meet you"

"Stop making him uncomfortable and sit everything is ready and served in the dining room, I'll take the dishes in a moment" dad and Gabe went to the table but Alex came to my side and said "let me help you carry the dishes Sophie"

"it's ok I got this, just go sit down and ill take everything out in a minute"

"No here let me" he said grabbing the tray of food from me "My mother would kill me if she knew I was a guest in a house and didn't help the host with something at least" he winked and left to the table with me trailing after him.

"This is DELICIOUS, how did you make this?" Alex said stuffing his mouth with the food.

"Dude, welcome to heaven, my sister is the best cook there is, why do you think we came practically running with my dad, she could make us dog crap with spices and stuff and I think that I would devour that too and ask for more after " I just laughed at that,  snort and all.

"Bam Bam you would eat anything hungry even if I didn't cook it first" I challenged.

"well maybe, but if you make it it would be ten times better"

"its true sweetie you are a great cook, I have never eaten better pasta than yours, not even at a restaurant" dad stated sounding proud.

"Well thank you guys, it means a lot" now they are just making me blush.

The rest of the dinner went well I think they all got a long great, they even started talking about cars which got Alexander practically beaming talking proudly about his father, you could tell he admire him a lot.

After we were all finished, Gabriel cleared the table and did the dishes while Alex and me got to our paper. we actually managed to get almost half of it done, and I got to say he is super smart and funny.

I accompanied him out to his car when it was almost 10. "Thank you for asking me to be your partner" I said just when he was opening the car for and throwing his bag pack in.

He gave a sweet smile, walked really near me and lowered his face to my level."it was my pleasure Sophie" and with that he gave me a kiss on the cheek and left.

"Oh, my" I whispered in complete awe, my stomach got butterflies, that  dreamy shitting jerk, I can't believe I got moved by that.