Chapter 45: The Distraction
Parking my car in the driveway I grab my lavender back pack and head inside the school. Looking around I see a bunch of kids from my economics class carrying poster boards and such. Oh, crap I forgot we were presenting our projects to Germani Industries today. That means Alexander is going to be here today.
After the kiss last night, I rushed Alexander out the door and ran up to my room.
I was so flushed with emotions I didn’t know how to handle the situation so pushing him out the door made a lot of sense at the time. The kiss just turned me upside down, changed everything inside of me. The power and gumption behind the kiss was just... extraordinary.
I have no Idea how he felt about it, he was already out the door. Walking through the sea of projects I find my eyes landing on mine and Lyra's posterboard. She stands by the poster board texting on her phone. Slamming down my backpack she jumps up in fright.
“Damn Quinn you scared me. And where have you been school started 20 minutes ago and I had to set up everything on my own. Usually I'm the one that's late not you." She says huffing.
“Sorry. I went to sleep late last night. Also, it’s one poster board not a lot of work to be done.” I tell her while checking out the poster board. We really did well on the project.
“Late night with Alexander huh?” She asked lifting up her eyebrow at me.
“You could say that.” I say looking down at my hands.
“You want to talk about it?” She asked trying to get eye to eye with me.
“Not really. I just want t-.” Before I could finish my sentence Alexander, his father and cousin walk in. His father is wearing a slick black suit with his hair slicked back. Greta, the cousin, is wearing a purple pencil skirt, flower blouse, hair pinned up in the back with white heels. Lastly, Alexander, the person I’ve been trying to avoid, is wearing a blue shirt with a jean jacket, some black jeans and white tennis shoes. His curly hair hangs freely as one curl hangs over his eye.
How I would love to reach out and tuck the curl behind his ear. To caress his soft cheek and kiss his soft lips.
I shake my head trying to focus on why I’m here, the school project. Ever since last night I haven’t been able to get him out of my head. His imagine is embroidered in my mind.
I watch him walk around looking at everyone’s project. He looks up and spots me across the room. Our eyes connect once again, he stares at me with such passion. It feels like we are the only people in the room right now. He brings his finger up to his lips and drags it across them as he looks deep in my eyes. My breath hitches I know what he’s trying to do, remind me of last night.
I hesitantly tear my eyes away from him focusing on the table next to me. Looks like we don’t have enough cards.
“Lyra looks like we don’t have enough cards for our project I should go get some.” I tell her pointing down at the limited number of cards we have.
She looks at me with confusion. “Harlequinn nobody cares about that we’ll be fine.” She tells me.
“No no we should have more. You stay here and I’ll go get some.” I leave her with the poster board and start to walk down the hall back to the classroom. Looking over to Alexander I see him looking at me with curiousness, wondering where I’m going. I tear my gaze from him and head down the hall. I walk into the classroom and over to Mr. Banhammer’s desk. Grabbing the cards from his desk I hear the door shut behind me.
Lifting my head up a strong smell of cologne shoots through my nose. I don’t even have to turn around to know who’s behind me.
“Hey. You haven’t returned my text or call.” He speaks. I turn around to see Alexander leaned up against the door with hands in his pockets. I look to see his muscles flex out of his jean jacket.
“I woke up late today, so you know.” I tell him looking everywhere but him. He walks over to me; his chest comes face to face with me.
“Look I know the kiss was... unexpected. We don’t have to kiss anymore.” He says reassuring me.
“It’s not that, I liked the kiss it’s just I don’t think I’m ready for more.” I said looking up at him. A disappointing look forms on his face.
“Look, it’s alright. We can just be friends... Right?” He asked looking for some hope in my face.
“Yeah, we can be friends.” I respond back.
“So, you liked the kiss?” He asked a smile forming on his lips. I roll my eyes at him and cross my arms.
“Don’t get cocky now. Maybe we could... You know be more just not now.” I say giving him the hope of maybe there could be a me and him.
Outside the room in the hallway, I hear Lyra calling out my name. In haste, I run to the door quickly shielding her form seeing Alexander in the room. She doesn’t know what went down last night and I wasn’t trying to talk about it when I was still wrapping my head around it.
She looks at me weirdly. “Hey... Uh we are about to present our project in a few minutes you ready?” She asked.
“Yeah, got the cards right here.” I look down in my hands to see the cards not in them. Damn it Quinn you got distracted, again.
“You mean these cards?” Alexander pushes the door open slightly pushing me forward. He comes from around me with the cards in hand.
I snatch the cards from his hand and give him a dirty look. “Yeah, those cards.” I say mumbling to him through my teeth. “Well, we should be going thank you.” I grab Lyra by her arm as I walk us both down the hall back to the cafeteria.
“Why were you alone in the classroom with him? Were you guys making out?” She asked squealing loudly.
“What! No, we weren’t making out. We were... conversating.” We reach the cafeteria and I start to sort out the cards.
“About what?” She leans up against the table waiting for me to answer.
“You know, about stuff.” I tell her.
“What kinds of stuff Quinn?” I look up and see Alexander and his father and Greta walking over to us. Saved by the bell.
“Oh, look can’t answer that question right now, we got to show our project.” She rolled her eyes at me and tells me that this conversation isn’t over. I know it isn’t over trust me. Lyra never lets anything go.
“This is the last project that needs to be presented. This is Quinneth Worthingshire and Lyraina Berkely.” Mr. Banhammer says presenting us. We say Hi to everyone and start presenting our project.
After presenting the project...
“Well girls you did well.” Mr. Germani says as he eyes our project. “Best one I’ve seen today.” He gives Lyra a smile while he looks me with a weird look. Does he not like me or something?
“Really wonderful girls.” Greta says smiling at both of us.
“Yes... quite captivating.” Alexander chimes in staring straight at me. I clear my throat and look towards Lyra.
“Thank you.” Me and Lyra say in unison. They all walk over to some other kids and conversate with him.
Lyra runs right over to me and starts to shake me.
“What the hell was that. He basically was eye raping you the whole time. The way he said ‘captivating’ and stared straight at you.” She said with excitement in her voice.
“It was just him being a flirt that’s all.” I tell her while pulling her hands off of me.
“No that was the look of something happened. What happened Quinn and don’t leave anything out.” She tells me crossing her arms.
God this is going to be a long day, and a long conversation.
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