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Chapter Nineteen (contd.)

MICHAEL

"Yeah, I should have."

I notice her smile vanishes after my words and she looks a bit guilty, "Have I said something wrong?" She asks.

"No, you haven't." I reply with a forced smile and turn my attention to the notes. I know she is watching me and she probably knows I'm lying but she says nothing.

And I appreciate it.

We continue with the test and soon, the students begin to finish with it and to submit their practical notes for marking. Everything was going fine until John goes to the teacher's table to submit his notebook.

As soon as he passes by our table, it's like he put Cynthia on hold as she completely forgets what she is doing and follows his movement until he submits his book and passes by our table to go out of the classroom. She even tries to talk to him but he just walks past her and goes out of the laboratory.

What the hell is he trying to prove?

She turns to me all of a sudden and I raise an eyebrow in question, "I'm sure you now understand what precipitate is and you can finish the rest by yourself if you follow the instructions. Just do that and write down your observations, I will come back to tell you what ions are present and what the name of the compound is."

Without waiting for a response from me, she hands me the test tube in her hand and runs out of the laboratory.

I stare at her receding back as she exits the laboratory, wondering why she left like that and that's when I realize that she... ran after him?!

And she wants me to finish the experiment?

Oh, hell no. I'm going after her right now to stop her from doing something foolish. I glance down at the test tube in my hand and the responsibility she had given me.

Ugh! I guess I will just do that after I have completed the exercise.

I read the last question on the board and try to interpret what it might mean but I only come up blank. She had made it seem so easy when we were doing it together but now that she's not here, it's difficult.

I'm sorry, Cynthia but I'll have to complete it some other way.

I notice that the pair of students next to me are done with their practical and are just clearing up their equipment. We are already on the last questions anyway, I just need the observations and inference.

I head towards them and try to smile as genuinely as possible, "Hi."

It's a pair of a guy and girl and the guy is the first to look up, I legit thought he is about to have a heart attack.

"Are you okay?" I sound impatient when I should be worried but I don't have time to waste like this.

"Oh My God! It's Michael!" The girl squeals, gaining the attention of those working nearby.

I give her a quick smile, "Yeah. Actually-

"My name is Mayorkun, you can call me Mayor." The guy says, sticking his hand out for a shake.

"Yeah, nice to meet you, Mayorkun." I return his handshake and try to get to the real reason I'm talking to them but as soon as his grip on my hand tightens, I know I made a mistake. He stares down at our hands then at me as if he can't quite believe what's happening.

I try to remove my hand from his grip, "I actually need to-

"Your watch, how much is it?" The guy asks like I wasn't just trying to speak.

"I don't know. It was a gift from my dad. Look, I really need your-

"The senator? Wow! It must truly cost a lot." He comments with fascination and that seems to remind me of why I'm actually standing in front of him.

I snatch my hand from him and he looks a bit surprised by my aggression but I ignore it. "Guys, I need you to help me." I start but they both look confused. "You know I just joined the science class so I don't really understand what I'm to do with the last question."

They seem to understand my predicament after my explanation and the girl looks eager to help.

"Do you want me to explain it to you?" She asks and I'm quick to shake my head.

"No, just the answer will do."

She smiles and hands me her notebook, "Sure."

"Thanks a lot." I reply with a smile but I don't think she heard me because of the dazed expression on her face.

I copy the answers in both mine and Cynthia's note as fast as I can and return the notebook back to the girl whose name I don't even know.

I say my thanks to them again and I had to give Mayorkun another handshake before I finally get to leave their table and to submit the book.

I rush outside after that but the sight before me makes me stop in my track.

Cynthia and John are both so close to each other and the idiot is grabbing her by the shoulder and is telling her something. I have to move a bit closer to hear what he is saying, "...told you that he isn't what you think he is. You should stay away from him or you are going to regret it."

By him, does he mean me?

I smile when Cynthia removes his hands from her shoulder. Yeah, she shouldn't let that asshole touch any part of her body.

"You know it's not possible for me to just stay away from him especially when he is my seat partner for crying out loud." She says and he sighs, looking frustrated. "Fine, give me a reason to get rid of him, something I can use against him so he can't sit with me any longer."

Why would she even ask that question? Why would she want to get rid of me? I thought we were making progress!

I can't see her expression as her back is to me but I could see John's face and he looks perplexed.

"Then, what do you want me to do?! How are you even so sure that he is going to harm me? How do you know him? What do you know about him that you aren't telling me?" She questions.

Wait... did that idiot say I'm going to harm her?!

I scoff.

He is the dangerous one and he is telling her I'm going to harm her. She should steer clear of him instead!

And what's even their relationship for crying out loud?! Are they dating already?

I'm filled with dread at that thought.

"Trust me, if there is something that I think you should know, I won't hesitate to tell you but what I do know is that he is bad news and you shouldn't be feeling responsible for him. I can't let you continue this way because I won't be able to bear it. I won't be able to watch you choose him over me again." He utters quietly and starts to walk away again.

Why is he taking that tone with her? Is he trying to make her feel guilty?

Yeah, she chose me over you. So what?!

"It really isn't what you think and I was really hoping you understand that. I was just trying to help him and I know I did it the wrong way by hurting you." She explains but he doesn't even stop.

And why is she even explaining to him?!

"I'm really sorry, John."

I hear her voice break and my eyes widen in shock.

She is... crying?!

I start to head towards her to tell her to stop and to comfort her but John also turns at that moment and starts to walk towards her. He gets to her first and I just had to stop when he pulls her into a hug.

And he didn't just hug her, he smirks and raises his head to look at me. Like he knows I'm watching and he is trying to put on a show.

That was definitely what he did in the class yesterday too when he pecked her on the cheek.

What the hell is he trying to prove?!

"I don't ever want to be the cause of your tears." He says into her hair while looking at me and hugs her even tighter.

He is enjoying this. That asshole!

"Does that mean you aren't annoyed with me anymore?"

He releases her from his embrace and the smug look he had in his eyes when he was looking at me is gone.

"There is no way I can stay annoyed with you in the first place." He declares with a sweet look in his eyes, so sweet it is actually sickening. "You do realize I like you a lot, right? I'm trying my very best to make you mine and I won't stop until that's what happens." He asks and she nods.

"Good." He grins. "Go back to finish your practical with your 'partner'." He adds with a roll of his eyes and I hear her chuckle. "We will talk over lunch."

"We still have two more periods after Chemistry." She reminds him and he shrugs.

"I will wait. It's what I do." He replies with a wink and turns to go.

He will wait.

Those words sound like they hold more meaning than in just the present situation.

She stays there and watches him until he is no longer in sight and when she turns with a smile on her face, it is all the confirmation I need that she really likes him.

Why? Why does she have to like him of all people?

She looks around, only now noticing that her drama with John had attracted some spectators but she only rolls her eyes and starts to work towards the laboratory. It takes a while for her to notice that I'm standing in front of her as she still seems to be smiling about her conversation with John but when she finally notices me, she stops walking and looks at me with uncertainty.

I say nothing as she stares at me and then continues to walk towards me until we are standing right in front of each other.

"Why do you look like that?" She asks with an amused smile but I say nothing, just watching her. Wondering how she can smile at me like that after she has just practically told everyone who was willing to listen that she likes John and hates the fact that I'm her seat partner.

And yet I wonder why I'm so affected by this whole situation. Why I'm bothered by that?

She then glances down at my hand and then grabs one of them.

I flinch at her touch, not because I'm irritated but because of the jolt I felt from the feel of her hands on mine, the sensation that courses through me. I didn't even know that my hands were clenched by my sides until she starts to unclench it.

Why is she doing this?

"Why are you acting nice all of a sudden?"

She looks up at me unsurely and makes to grab my other hand but I don't let her.

She lets out a frustrated sigh, a sigh that one will give to a child that has been causing trouble and you are fed up with. And it only infuriates me more especially when I think about how she had reacted to John.

So now I'm a child to her?

"Why? Are you disappointed that he couldn't give you a reason to get rid of me?" I ask again.

Maybe I'm acting like one.

She raises her eyebrow in question, watching me with confusion and as if she already knows the answer to her question, she gives me a stoic expression, "You heard us."

"I did." I confirm then pretend to be remorseful, "Oh, my bad. I wasn't supposed to hear that, was I?"

She gives me a funny look and shrugs, "You are free to hear anything. It's not like you don't know that I don't like you as my seat partner."

Wow! Just wow!

What was I even expecting? That she would say she didn't mean for me to hear that? Or that she is sorry that she hurt my feelings?

"But you like him, don't you? You wouldn't mind him as your seat partner."

"I don't know why you're suddenly acting like this."

She looks so clueless that it is starting to piss me off. I want her to be hur like she has hurt me.

"You're such a fool."

She looks pretty offended by my words but I'm not done, "If you can like someone as disgusting and dangerous as him, then I was wrong to think you're smart."

I must have hit a nerve with my words because now she looks straight up annoyed but when she bursts into laughter, I figured she might have also gone insane.

"Disgusting?" She asks with incredulity and takes a step towards me, "Dangerous?" She takes another step towards me causing me to take a step back until I'm leaning on the wall. "What is this? A clown show? Or a 'call-others-what-I-am' type of show if that's even a thing?"

What's she on about?

"You and I both know who those words are perfectly suited for. Calling someone disgusting and dangerous when you're the one who beat an innocent guy to a pulp and isn't even human enough to check up on him in the hospital that he is."

The amount of repulsion in her eyes as she speaks makes me want to hide in shame. But more than that, it makes me want to change that look towards me, makes me want to make her look at me with the same look she had in her eyes when she was talking to John.

And she needs to know that John is more dangerous than that. I bet she doesn't know half of what he has done.

I look her straight in the eyes, "Whatever you're thinking of me right now, John is probably ten times worse than that. You shouldn't like somebody like him."

She scoffs with distaste, "Then who should I like? You? I would rather stay single for the rest of my life."

I feel like I have been punched in the guts. The whole of my plan has been flung to my face.

She had claimed I was not her type in front of many students in the cafeteria and I had been convinced she was lying and putting on a show so I had set out to make her eat her words.

I don't know why but I grab her by the arms and just begin to shake her, maybe shaking her will let her feelings for John fall off and she will see reason.

When I stop shaking her, she looks like she would have slapped me if I wasn't holding her arms, "What do you think you are doing?!"

"Letting you see reason."

"Look here, Michael. You might have been mistaken that we are now friends or something because I decided to help you in the laboratory but make no mistake about it, I can never be friends with someone like you not to talk of liking you."

Her words were dripping of venom and it only made me want to prove her wrong.

"You can never like me?" I ask but she doesn't reply, still giving me that absolutely repulsed look.

In a swift movement, I flip our position so she is pressed against the wall instead and I'm hovering above her.

She looks momentarily confused and a bit panicked at our new position, "What do you think you are doing?"

"We'll see if you can still say that after I do this." I reply like she didn't just talk then bring my head down to kiss her.

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