It's just a crush (student/teacher)

Chapter 3*

You look beautiful tonight.

Did he really just say that? There are no words in my head. It's like suddenly everything disappeared. I look at him with no expression on my face. Before he can say something, Alex arrives with 3 shots. He places them on the table. Christian takes his and says: "Happy Birthday, Alex".  We drink them and then Alex asks Christian:

"And how's Lynn at school?"

„Always so curious." I say smirking to Alex. „Don't you believe what I tell you?"

Christian smiles and answers: "She's a good student but she is laughing a lot at her table."

"I can't help that Brian and Matt are that funny." I say laughing.

"Do you like them?" Alex asks.

"Of course, we're friends."

"Nothing more? "

"No, just friends." I roll my eyes. As I said earlier, I hate questions about boys and my non-existing love life.

Before he can say something, my Mom pulls me away to dance with her and some others. I'm glad she did. I started feeling uncomfortable around Christian. But I still feel his eyes on my back. I dance for at least an hour with them. Sometimes Christian and my eyes meet, he even smiled one time. It makes me smile too. But it's a very strange around my parents and their friends. I don't know how I should describe my feelings. On one hand I really like Christian, he's attractive, but on the other hand he's my teacher and older than me. I feel like I can't control myself when he's around, like I want to be ''close'' to him and get to know him, but I don't want anyone to notice it. It would be better if I stay away from him, so my little crush on him can fade away. That's what I try to stick to, but his eyes on me make that extremely difficult.

We are leaving around 1 am and I'm really tired. I'm glad to finally lay in my bed and sleep to get my mind stop racing with thoughts about him.

That was an awkward day.

*

It's Christmas Eve and my grandparents are around. The previous days of myholidays were spent with Julia or I just stayed at home doing nothing special. Now we're having our Christmas dinner and I'm excited for unpacking my presents. I know that I'm 17 but who cares? It's Christmas! I love being around my family. We have a great evening and I didn't even thought about him. I just enjoyed our family time!

The following days were unspectacular as well, but today Mia, my best friend, is going to visit me and will stay untill New Years Day. Unfortunately we barley see each other, because she's not living in my town, but she's one of those friends you don't need to see everyday, but if you do, you talk like you saw each other just yesterday. I'm really glad to have her as a friend!
We spent some great days, going shopping and to the movies but now we're laying in my bed with some pizza and are talking:

"So are there any news about you and Mr. Hottie? " Mia asks with asmirk on her face.

"Can you stop calling him that. His name is Christian or Mr. Richards. "

"Okay okay. So spill it, are there any news?" She's still smirking.

"Yes, to be honest. He will be there tomorrow." I say.

"What? You're kidding? How did that happen?"

"No, I'm not. Dad invited him."

"I can't believe I'm finally going to meet him!" she says with abig smile. I shake my head at her and say:

"This is just awkward. At Alex birthday he told me that I would look beautiful. That was awkward. I didn't knew what to do or say."

"This is so cute!"

"It made me really uncomfortable."

"I can imagine that." Mia says.

"I wanted to stay away from him but he starts a friendship with my parents. How can I avoid him?"

"You can't. That's a sign!"

"I don't know. We will see what happens."

"We will. I'm so excited for tomorrow."

"Calm down, Mia." I say with a wide smile. We start laughing.

I love having her around me!