Bestfriends Shouldn’t Know How You Taste

Chapter 16

“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. 

my bag  on the table before us. “Well there’s a first for  everything.”

 happened. I should’ve never gone to the party in  the first place. Everything now just felt

animals layed  on

at the poor  animal. “What exactly are we supposed to be  doing?” I asked

own. I’m left panting for air  at the intensity it held. He looked different,  something about him was different, but I couldn’t

my eyes trailing down to his lips. Lips that  felt so good on mine, lips I can’t ever forget. I  draw in a

He  cringes and slips on white gloves. My eyes widen in  horror as I snap my

furrowed in  confusion before his lips thinned into an unpleasant  frown.The heads of the students turn to face me as

dissecting.” He hisses and crosses his

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

awkward after all.  Maybe it didn’t affect him the way that it had done  to me. Maybe Blake had forgotten all about it. And  why does

reach over for the gloves that Blake kindly placed  before me. I slip them on slower than necessary. I  felt the delicate latex wrap around my finger then  my entire hand, cocooning

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

refrain, it will only make  things more awkward than it already was. He tried  to hide it

early for  school?” He

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