"Hey Babe," Belinda chirped when I entered school.

"Hey." I said to mask my boredom. Since its some kindof school 'ritual' for a bad boy to date a cheerleader before I got admitted to a basket ball team. I mean what the actual heck?

"Come come see me practice." She said holding my arm before se started to drag me.

"Yeah." I sighed strolling along with her. Then Nolan approached us with Pamela.

"This way." He directed her totally ignoring us and Pamela nodded followinb him.

During Belinda's cheerleading practice, my eyes were fixated on her but my mind was thinking otherwise. I was imaging how it would be if Pamela was in that cheerleader outfit.

I shook my head of those thoughts when Belinda threw me a kiss. Pretending to have caught it (yeah I do that all the time) ,I winked at her and she smiled. When she finished, she then approached me.

"Tired? "I asked when she was panting.

"Yeah." She breathed out

"Even for a kiss?"I asked to stop thinking about Pamela.

"Nope." She replied and I kissed her. During the meaningless kiss, my mind involuntarily pictured Pamela and when I opened my eyes, I met my disappointment.

I gently pulled away from Belinda and she pouted.

"Ugh do you have to go?"she whined.

"Yeah, I've got practice." I explained and she nodded.

Changing into my sports clothes. I walked briskly and I bumped into Pamela who had her P.E kit in her hands.

"Sorry."She mumbled wearing her glasses properly. She then began to walk past me when I grabbed her wrist making her gasp. She wriggled out and shifted to a side then Nolan appeared.

"Pamela, hurry, I've got practice." He said and dragged her away.

Okay so she's ignoring me?

I watched them walk away with Nolan said arm on her shoulder.

Meh, it's not like I care. She ain't worth it

***

During the practice,I've couldn't help but think about Pamela, how I'm gonna make her life miserable.

Lie.

At a point, I stayed rooted to the spot bouncing the ball in my hands wondering a lot about her.

"Nathaniel move!" The coach yelled and snapped me out of my thoughts. I momentarily forgot about her and continued my practice till it was over.

My bones were numb.

"You have to come early on Thursday, you have another practice." He announced and we all groaned. Despite that, we got out of the gym chatting with each other.

"Man, does coach wanna kill us or what?" Angelo groaned flexing his arm.

"I'm so hungry right now." Aldrick announced.

"How about we go out after school? Just us the guys." Angelo suggested.

"Yeah, man don't bring your crazy girlfriend. We don't want any witches among us."

"Guys, I don't have a choice, she will definitely come." I sighed as we walked past some students.

"I guess we'll shoo her." Aldrick suggested and we laughed.

"Dude, that XBOX is legit." Arjun chuckled.

"See. I told you. Despite how complicated it is than PS, it's kinda cooler." I chuckled taking out my water bottle from my kit.

I went ahead of the guys and stood at the tip of the stairs to drink the water and before I could leave, someone fell on me and both of us landed on the floor with the person on top of me.

I opened my eyes to meet the familiar blue colored eyes and the owner's sweet breath fanning my face. Shit.

Pamela had tripped the staircase and she was on top of me with her bare legs in between mine. Then my gaze shifted to her lips.

Why does she like biting them? it doesn't help to reduce temptation.

My vision got slightly blur and so many thoughts went through my head. Especially the urge to ran my fingers through her bun and pull her towards me to claim my lips with hers.

It was really tempting, looking at how our lips were approximately one inch away. Just a little more then put lips would be touching.

I felt like I was in a momental trance when I tucked her hanging reddish orange hair behind her ear with the aim of dragging her head closer to..kiss her?

"Na..Nathaniel?" She called slightly moving her head back.

Shit.

I virtually carried her off me and stood up.

"What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you blind? Aren't those glasses enough?" I growled highly annoyed and irritated.

"Dude chill." Aldrick chuckled. "It's part of life." Arjun teased.

"Fuck off." I growled at them.

"S..sorry." She said trying to stand up but fell and held her ankle.

"What's wrong with you?" I asked frowning.

"My..ankle..g..got s..sprained." She said blinking her long lashes. I sighed in frustration and moved towards her and picked her up in a bridal way as she wrapped her hands around my neck.

"You may now kisss the bride." Angelo announced and Pamela started to blush.

"Shut up." I grumbled walking towards the exit.

"Th..Thank you." She thanked and I walked her towards her car.

"Can you drive?" I asked when we reached the her car. I was fully aware of the fact that my hand was in contact with her smooth skin. It took a lot not to press her.

Nathaniel, stop glorifying her, it's the same girl you hate.

"N..no." She replied.I sighed and placed her in the passengers seat then I jogged towards the driving seat and sat in it.

"Keys?" I asked still frowning. Damn I was still irritated. I looked at her face and she lowered her eyes, buying her lips I wanted to smooch so badly.

"You don't have to-"

"Keys?!" I demanded and she slowly gave them to me. I took it a led out a sigh. Then suddenly I leaned towards her and placed the my hand at the back of her neck. She whimpered at the closeness of my lips and her cheeks burned when I leaned closer. She bit her lips and that enticed me more.

Annoyance dropped into me when she pursed her lips and looked down. With that done, I moved my head back and sighed in frustration.

Due to her small height, I had to adjust the seat and I revved the engine and began to drive. She just lay there wincing silently as she stole glances at me.

When we reached her house, I managed and pressed the doorbell and her mom came later with her hand on her protruding belly.

"Nathaniel?"she asked. "Why are you back from school early Pamela?"

"She sprained her ankle." I explained.

"Oh so you're taking her to her room?" She asked looking at Pamela.

"N..no mum..where is Eugene?" Pamela asked.

Great, she wants her brother, I'm even sure they're not siblings. Or maybe she thought I was gonna do something to her? Yeah right.

"Eugene is not at home." She said. "Nathaniel can you please take her there for me?" He mom pleaded sweetly. "You remember her room right?" She asked.

"Yes Mrs Demen." I cleared my throat turning towards the stairs to climb. We got to her room and I opened the door and took us inside.

I gently placed her on her bed and a thought rushed into my head when I glimpsed at he lips. Ah, shit.

I was about to lean in when her mother spontaneously arrived.

"Here you go Nathaniel, massage her ankle with this, I'll get you some water to drink..Anyway thank you." Her mom said

I nodded and took the ointment and sat beside her ankle as her mother left.

"You don't have to trouble-"

"Would you shut the fuck up for once?" I requested.

Ugh! she's annoyingly hot.

So I applied the ointment on her ankle and I gently massaged it making her wince softly. Once done, I was yet to leave.

"Um..Nathaniel?" She called softly making my heart race. Like what the hell?

"What?!"I asked coldly and she flinched.

"T..T..tha..thank y..you " She stammered shaking. No way am I falling for those eyes.

"You're not welcome." I said and her face overflowed with embarrassment. "You should have even broken your legs." I seethed and she winced.

I left the room and headed downstairs and just then her brother entered. Her mom didn't approach us so it was just the two of us.

"Yo, Nathaniel..what are you doing here?" He asked looking at where I came from.

"Oh, Pamela sprained her ankle and so I brought her home." I explained quirking my brows.

"How did it happen?" He asked.

"She fell of the staircase..and I rushed towards her." I half-lied.

"Oh ok, thanks for helping her." He said and I nodded and left the house.

***

I tried hard to concentrate but it was difficult. I wouldn't stop staring at her. Maybe it was because she wasn't sitting next to me.

Or maybe it was because of how nicely she had twin braided her hair.

Or maybe how her eyes sparkled under her classes. Or how pinkish her lips were.

She took a glance at me and looked away with a cute frown. As though that made me stop starinng.

"So, the sum of the squares of any two sides of any triangle equals twice the square on half the third side, together with twice the square on the median bisecting the third side...do you understand class?" The teacher asked.

Everyone said yes, and he put some workings on the board and later gave us some questions to try out.

In about a second, both Nino and Pamela's hand were up.

"You first, then Nino continues," the teacher said.

She stood up and my eyes skimmed over her outfit in admiration.

Not that it looked good on her.

"AB²+Ac²=2(AD²+BD²)" She stated.

"Very good, Nino, continue from there." The teacher said and he did but. Afer the class was dismissed, everyone got up and started leaving but I spotted Ferb approaching her table.

I groaned, grabbed my bag and left the class.

***

"I still don't get why you gave her a ride." Belinda scoffed.

"I didn't do anything to you when you slapped her." I stated.

"What would you have done? Slapped me too?" She asked and I remined silent chewing the burger..

"Damn." Arjun muffled.

"Mind your own business." Belinda hissed at him.

"But I am. This burger is legit." He groaned and Belinda rolled her eyes.

"So you were gonna slap me because of some new dork that came into our school, Nathaniel how could you!" She gasped and we all rolled our eyes at her dramatic attitude.

"Relationships." Angelo chuckled.

"Fuck off." Belinda barked.

"Be like a lady, we're in public. Jeez." Aldrick sighed laying the napkin on his lap.

"Fuck you." She retorted.

"Hell no." He rose a brow.

"Nathaniel." She looked at me. "I'm breaking up with you." She ann oumced.

"We thank you Lord! We thank you Lord! We tha-"

"SHUT UP." We yelled at Arjun and he guffawed.

"Okay then." I said emotionlessly. I was even glad.

"You're a fucking heartless jerk." She growled.

"Mhm." I sighed. She grabbed her hand bag and phone and turned towards the exit.

"This isn't over." She said.

"This isn't over." Aldrick mimicked her voice and we laughed.

"Guys, like I really need you to help me talk to that red head, she's too shy." He groaned and I glared at him

"Dude what?" He muffled and I scoffed. "You don't even seem serious about her. Leave her alone." He said and the thought of leaving her alone made me feel weird.

"What shows you're gonna get her?" I rose a brow.

"Well-" He paused and start at the entrance. "My crush is here." He announced and I whipped my head to see her and Nolan.

They were prolly on a date. Not that I cared...

My knuckles were whitened as I glared at that table.

"Dude stop or else they'll suspect us." Arjun said.

"How long have they been dating?" I seethed.

"I dunno but it hurts here. Ow..my heart." Aldrick groaned and I felt the actual pain in my chest.

Angelo and Arjun laughed at us and we rolled our eyes.

"On day you gonna fall in love see how it feels like." Aldrick huffed.

"Yeah as if some hot girl is gonna appear in our school and get me moved." Angel chuckled.

Fuck this feeling ugh!

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