“You’re late.” Mr. Simon says in a blunt scowl. I  halt in the doorway, bracing my palm on the  wooden door frame. Heat started in my neck and  radiated upward into my cheeks. 

I shifted on my feet in discomfort. My green eyes  dart to the circular clock on the far wall. He was  right, I was exactly five minutes late. 

I move my eyes away from the clock to scan  around the cla*s. Everyone’s eyes were on me,  studying me, waiting for whatever excuse I would  give. 

But I didn’t have any, somehow my brain seemed  to not function properly this early. Or it was  probably the alcohol that still lingered in my body. 

“Sorry, it won’t happen again sir.” I said softly,  closing the wooden door behind me. 

“Just get to your partner and start working.” He  huffs, leaning back on the leather seat. 

I gulped and with a quick nod strutted to the back.  My head was lowered as I move around desks. I  could hear their whispering, their giggles of humor. 

It made me feel like a tiny ant under a microscope.  I hated it. 

“Since when do you come late to cla*s Ley?”  Blake’s voice has a teasing tone to it. A delicious  fluttering started in my abdomen at his voice. I  hated that he affected me this much and I hated  that I couldn’t help it. 

beside him. I place my bag  on the table before us. “Well there’s

Kissing him last night shouldn’t have  happened. I should’ve never gone to the party in  the first place. Everything now just felt awkward  with him.

stare as I look at the contents on the  table, well more specifically the two animals layed  on the table. A dead frog was neatly placed inside  a decent size gla*s tray before me.

 animal. “What exactly are we supposed to be

throat as his piercing  blue eyes lock into my own. I’m left panting for air  at

good on mine, lips I can’t

snap my eyes to Mr Simon. He looked  half asleep with his feet kicked up on the

could stop it. It comes out loud and  accusing. Mr. Simon dark brows furrowed in  confusion before his lips thinned into an unpleasant  frown.The heads of the students turn to face me

hisses and crosses his  ankles. “Now get to work all of you!” He shouts  angrily. Everyone turns

him Ley, he  probably didn’t get laid last night.” Blake jokes in a  hushed tone then pokes my sides. Squirming at

it didn’t affect him the way that it had done  to me. Maybe

on slower than necessary. I  felt the delicate

 conversation. This wasn’t exactly the question I  wanted to ask. I wanted to ask him if he had heard  the rumors

 far from the truth. But I refrain, it will only make  things more awkward than it already was. He tried  to hide it but I could sense the tension between

early for  school?” He chuckles. He had a point.

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