I was trying my best to listen to what the teacher was teaching which was a Shakespeare work but failed in doing so a number of times.

Calm down! He is just scaring you. I was repeating this over and over inside my head. I tried to calm myself down by inhaling deeply and balled my hands in a fist on the table.

Isaac, one of my annoying classmates, nudged me on my side. I glared at him turning my head towards him. He handed me a crumpled paper and held a finger towards someone. I looked where he was pointing only to be met by the pair of brown eyes.

Noel.

He waved at me smirking. 'Open' he mouthed.

I opened the ball of paper in my hands. I frowned at what was written. 'Make a room for me tonight on your bed. I will come for you baby ;) we are gonna have so much fun" I looked at him. It wasn't the first time he passed me chits. Usually, it contained an insult or so.

He smirked when he caught me looking at him. He brought his middle finger and index finger near his mouth and flicked his tongue out. In and out. In and out.

Eww gross. I looked away and cringed. I heard him chuckle and Damon snort. The teacher seemed to ignore that. Obviously, nobody would dare to question Damon and Noel. They were the kings of the school.

"Why are you cringing?" I heard the smoker say. I looked at him and narrowed my eyes.

"Why are you looking at me?" He rolled his eyes and looked away.

Better.

We both were listening to the instructions which our teacher was giving regarding our first project which is supposed to be done individually and should be submitted next week. when out of nowhere the smoker said "You are rude"

"I know" I instantly replied. I felt his eyes on me so I looked at him he was staring at me "what?!" I whispered yelled in annoyance.

He shook his head "nothing" I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Come on. Say it." I knew probing over such a small matter was not the best option. but curiosity killed a cat and satisfaction brought him back. "oh obviously you must be thinking about hurting me in a number of ways.. haha but guess what I don't care. I don't really care anymore" I cringed at the amount of saltiness I had in my reply. I was worried about what Damon will do and the annoying guy sitting beside me was not helping me. I was contemplating the choices I made. I should have never sat here. I felt pain forming in my head.

He made a weird face "first of all I would never hurt you" he said in a duh tone "I was just... wondering why you are pretty harsh on this hot new boy makes me curious.." he did a fake frown "I mean everyone likes me here..you know" he smirked.

I snorted "isn't it obvious."

"Is it because of blowing smoke on the face. Huh?"

"Yes," I mean whatever makes him stop talking to me.

"So you didn't forgive me yet"

"Yes"

He sighed "what will it take for you to forgive me" oh forgot sake!

"Just don't show your face to me"

"you really like to push away people right?"

"And you really like to annoy people right?" I said in anger.

"You don't even know me yet.." he trailed off I looked at him "I can be worse" his voice dropped a few notes. He said with no humour. No shit.

"And you don't know me yet. I will never be your friend..if that's what you want. I am very stubborn" his lips formed a wide smile.

"Well then we both are on the same ground," he said staring at my eyes. It felt like he was staring into my soul.

We both stopped talking then and focused on the video which was played on the projector.

The smoker was in deep shit now. He didn't know what he signed up for. I would never even look at a person like him to be more than a stranger. If he wanted to play games to chase me around then he could do it. But to what extent he would go? Someday or the other he would get tired and even start hating me since 'they' were his friends. Somehow that thought was depressing.

I looked at my watch only ten minutes left yes!

I felt a tap on my shoulder. I lazily looked at him"now what?"

"Enlighten me. Why did you choose to sit beside me if you 'dislike me' so much? Why not sit beside that guy...Damien?" I looked at Damon's side face. Damon must have felt my eyes on him and he turned his face towards me. He glowered and scowled at me. The two particular things which clung to his face always whenever I looked at him.

Little did he know.

I stared at the screen "he is my ex. We ended up in bad terms" I said exasperatedly and brushed off the topic. I would have not bothered to answer him but I didn't want him to keep bugging me so I said whatever came up into my mind first and the lie rolled out of my mouth easily. I was so used to lying. I do it every time whenever I am around my parents.

Why do ten minutes feel like ten fucking hours? I thought when smoker tapped on my shoulder again.

"Can you stop" I whispered yelled.

"I just wanted to ask time"

"Don't you have a phone? Or don't you know how to use one" I said, not making eye contact with him.

"Battery dead."

"Only five minutes left for this period to end and if you don't shut your ugly mouth. you are dead man smoker" I said sternly looking at him.

"My mouth can do wonders baby girl. It is nowhere near the word ugly" he said smugly and I chose to ignore him. "If you let me I could show you with absolutely no cost involved"I felt his body close to me. His body heat blanketed around me and my cheeks turned I was forced to look at him to give the piece of my mind but nothing came out of my mouth because of the closeness of his face from me. He smirked and the bell rang. He got up from his seat and went away.

I sighed and took a deep breath. English period has never been so long before. I collected my things from the desk and frowned at myself. I should start practising ignorance. It would be the best thing to do for a handsome guy like a smoker to not have an effect on me.

All my classmate were all scurrying towards the door and I followed their suit.

Worming through the heap of a crowd I went towards my locker but and rough hand around my arm stopped me. I whirled around my body only to have collided with someone.

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