Algebra and irish;) (student/teacher)

Chapter 14 (cursing the teacher)

Chapter 14---------

(I hate math) Alex thought as the calculator told her once again she had got a question wrong. Jordan was chatting up mr O'Grady telling him she was doing a paper on college professors.

"little liar" Alex muttered

"what was that ms Rogers?" said mr O'Grady looking up from the facts Jordan had gotten him to jot down.

"Oh nothing! Just thinking out loud" Alex said sarcastically.

"well try writing on your paper, this is a class we must keep it down"

Alex moved her mouth making a mocking motion as she punched in numbers in the calculator checking one of her answers again.

"fuck you!" she whisper yelled at the calculator when her answer came up wrong again.

"MS. ROGERS! You will not speak to a teacher like that."

"wait what?! I wasn't talking to-"

"I'll speak with you after class" he said cutting her off.

"whatever" Alex said beyond irritated. She folded her arms on top of her desk and laid her head down ignoring everyone until she heard the shuffle of students gathering their things and leaving for the day

*tap tap tap*

Alex raised her head to meet mr O'Grady's angry gaze.

" I wasn't talking to you ok?! I was talking to the damn calculator"

He watched her for what seemed like an eternity till he finally spoke.

"so not only did you just curse at a teacher... You also want me to believe that you were cursing at an inanimate object" he said raising an eyebrow At the end.

Alex crossed her arms and huffed

"yes"

She jumped when mr O'Grady let out a loud laugh.

"stop laughing! It isn't funny!"

"I- I'm sorry. Wh- why were you cursing at the calculator?"he managed to choke out in between laughs.

Alex narrowed her eyes at him.

"I'm bad at math ok. I'm surprised I made it this far" she said looking down at her shuffling feet.

That stopped his laughing and he put a finger under her chin to lift her gaze to his.

"you're not dumb lass"

Against her will Alex felt her cheeks heating and her gaze involuntary drop to his full lips.

"I - I know I'm not dumb. It's just Math in bad at" she said biting her lip nervously.

He looked into her eyes for probably another second before dropping his gaze and hand turning and walking a good ten paces away from her. He scrubbed a hand down his face and visibly shook his head.

"if you need help all you have to do is ask, I am a wee bit good at math" he said with a smile even though he looked visibly shaken.

" you'd really help me?"

" you're one of my students.. It's my job to make sure you understand this class to the best of your ability. That's my duty as your teacher." Alex should have noticed the way he stressed the words STUDENT and TEACHER. But she was to happy about getting the chance to actually do well in this class and not have to go through another excruciating semester of math since it and English lit were the only thing holding her back.

"yes! Thank you so much! The sooner we start the better"

"this is my last class of the day. What is yours?"

"English lit."

"alright after that just come back here and we'll begin the tutoring tomorrow"

Alex let out a very out of character squeal and threw her arms around him. The moment their bodies made contact she regretted it. His arms came around her mostly in effort to keep her from knocking him over. His hands rested on her hips as she pulled away with her arms still around his neck.

"oh um I'm sorry mr. O'Grady. Got a little over excited" she laughed nervously.

"Luke" he managed out past his constricting throat.

She pulled completely away and raised a questioning eyebrow.

"when we're not in class-" he cleared his throat.

"You can call me luke outside of class"

"oh ok, um bye mr O- er Luke see you tomorrow"

With that Alex hurried out the door.