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Arabella Rivera

A surprising heat slid up my neck. “Okay Mr. certified genius who wants to stay mysterious, enough of the wooing.” I cleared my throat while fixing a book in m y locker.

Christian’s bushy brow quirk up. “You call that wooing? Darling, you’ve heard nothing yet.” He joked.

I laughed. Christian was very different from Haiden. Whilst he was light and flirty, Haiden was dark and gloomy. They weren’t counterparts of each other, so different, yet somehow the universe jammed them together for the sake of its amusement.

“So what class do we have first? You’ve been hogging my schedule, so I didn’t get to have a peek.” Christian chuckle with amusement drowning in the depths of his eyes.

I scowled playfully. “I’m your tour guides o I have to have your schedule.” I drop m y eyes to the said paper and grin. “Oh you

ves to the said paper and grin. “Oh you are going to love this class. We have Literature.”

He narrows his eyes. “Why do I have a feeling that those words are colored?”

I crinkled my brows. “Colored?” I asked. Was this a slang word from whatever part of the world he came from? From what he has told me, he had been to many, so he must’ve picked up a few slangs here and there.

He grins. “Yeah, like you’ve colored them to sound truthful but you’re lying.”

Christian then snorts. “And here Mr. Gibbern’s been boasting you.”

“Hey that’s unfair! We don’t say that around here.” I protested and slammed m y locker shut.

Christian does too but chooses to close his softer than I did.

“Don’t get mad Ella, it’s just a joke.” He winked and turned to me.

of first period. “Shall

onio mis race.

Literature class. We were supposedly early, being welcomed by only a few students. Mr. Boyd’s face was tight as usual, lines angry even though today was Friday. But upon seeing the sight of a new student, his

over the room. “Not sure if we have space for an

seat……..?” He gestures to the class and looks at Christian with a questioning

strap of the bag on his shoulder. Mr. Boyd

t o have you, Classes are tough but

scrutimize Christian intently

beaming grin stretching on

Mr. Boyd leans back on the desk and crosses his arms across his chest as he waited for the rest of

around the desks and chairs. Finally plopping down on a vacant chair, Christian

snorted lowly.

good days but that was rare as rain in a drought. On his bad days, which was mostly every day,

other had me confused. I took my phone out of my bag and typed a quick

Where are you?

delivered but

was no reply

class I would like to introduce our new student who has joined us today. Stand up Christian.” Mr. Boyd spoke loudly. I swiftly push my phone in my bag, not

thim. “Tell us some few things about

he had gained the attention of many girls. The way their eyes

because I needed to settle down. But don’t let my good looks fool you, I surprisingly have some brain cells up in that big

seems to fit in so well and he hadn’t even

down, sighing out

down, sighing out a breath of relief when Mr. Boyd starts the class.” That was weird and terrifying.” He admits, leaning towards

comedian?” I turn to him and narrowed my eyes playfully.”Because if I had some rotten tomatoes, I’d feed you them on that big head of

strange how comfortable I had been with Christian when he hadn’t been here for hours. It was

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