Different

Chapter 25

Mrs Roberts told us both to sit round her desk. I flopped down onto the chair. I didn’t even care about chemistry, I’d rather fail than be tutored. ‘Is being tutored optional?’ I asked.

‘Not when you’re failing, no.’ Mrs Roberts frowned at me. I sighed and rolled my eyes. She frowned at me again. Did she expect me to be happy about this or something? Teachers are so stupid sometimes.

‘Now Jenna, since you’ve been failing this class for a while now I’ve decided that you need to be tutored. As you’ve probably already guessed’ she said slightly nodding her head towards Luke ‘he will be your tutor.’ What? Are you serious? Honestly she couldn’t have picked a worse person to tutor me. I’d never be able to focus properly with Luke, i’d be too busy staring at him. I was so stupid to even think that Luke needed tutoring too, of course he was crazily smart. Ugh.

‘Your tutoring sessions will start tonight and every Tuesday and Thursday for an hour until your grades get back up.’

‘But..’

‘No buts, Jenna.’ she said walking out of the room. ‘Go to the library with Luke so he can go over today’s lesson with you.’ Ugh. I hate my life.

We walked to the library in silence. I texted Tamzin on the way since she was the most likely to check her phone.

to Tamzin

can’t come to coffee, have to get tutored -_-

from Tamzin

what? :( which subject?

to Tamzin

chemistry

from Tamzin

who even cares about chemistry anyway?

to Tamzin

i know its so unfair!

When we reached the library we sat down on an empty table. There were other people in the library too. Nearly all geeks and weirdos. I really did not belong here. I pulled my chemistry book out of my bag and violently dropped it on the table. The noise made Luke jump slightly. ‘Sorry.’ I said.

‘It’s fine.’

We started to go over the lesson. Blah. When I was writing my arm kept brushing against Luke’s since he was left handed. Every time it sent small shivers down my spine. It was making me lose concentration on my work.

After about 40 minutes of work two of Luke’s friends came over and started talking to him. I waited for 5 minutes and then decided to leave. There was only 15 minutes left anyway. I silently put my stuff in my bag and left as quietly as I could since Luke was facing away from me and hopefully wouldn’t notice.

I’d just turned out of the school gates and started walking home when my phone vibrated against my leg. I pulled it out of my pocket and opened a new text message.

from Luke

sorry my friends showed up, do you still want to be tutored on thursday?

To Luke

sure

I know I was being tutored to pass chemistry, but any excuse to hang out with Luke was better than not seeing him. Courtney would kill me, but who cares?