Friday came rather slowly and painstakingly and all Miss Klaus' students were rushing to the class to get the front seat some minutes before the actual time for class that morning
Lucinda sat close to Michael in the class and scooted very close to him. The black off shoulder top she was wearing was revealing her cleavage…almost too much cleavage and she scooted close to Michael so she could almost put it in his face. She had bragged to her friends about having Michael Jordan's phone number and different girls had been coming to her for the phone number. She had not given it to anyone not because of the promise she had made but because she wanted to feel supreme. Michael was totally unaware of the extra efforts she had taken in doing her hair, her make up and had just accepted her greeting casually, causing a stab in Lucinda's heart.
When Martha had made the suggestion of him making Samantha jealous, he had dismissed the idea as it came. That was never going to work on Samantha he had thought but now that Lucinda was by his side, he was thinking of giving it a try.
The class started by Samantha calling the names of everyone in the class and she was slightly taken aback when she noticed the most indifferent and indecent girl of the class sitting close to… Michael. As a lady, she could tell of the difference in Lucinda and she could tell that Lucinda had done some touch and brush up on herself to look that way - extra sultry!
"Lucinda Maroon" Samantha called and when Lucinda stood up to answer her name which was totally uncalled for, Samantha was able to see the length of her skirt.
'That can't be all that there is to that skirt. Could it?' Samantha thought.
As Lucinda flirtatiously answered to her name while looking at Michael, Michael who was not originally looking at Lucinda, noticed Samantha's face on Lucinda's and he decided to look at Lucinda. Samantha saw his looking at Lucinda as him being enthralled by what he was seeing and her blood began to boil. She did not show it though and continued calling the names of others.
Lucinda seductively sat down back and crossed her legs.
At the end of the class, everyone had to be randomly paired for the next phase of learning they were to go into and the random pairing system paired Lucinda and Michael…much to Samantha's disapproval but there was nothing she could do about it. The pairing is between a boy and a girl and they are to engage in activities that would tell and explain more on how human communication is and the ways they think their activities can improve human communication. For example, by going on dates or taking extracurricular classes on various areas of life. At the end of the next week, everyone is meant to submit a written assignment on their understanding of their partner and what kind of a person they perceive the person to be.
"Michael!" Samantha called sharply. Lucinda was trying to ask Michael a question and her boobs were almost in his face. He was in one of the leading top ranges of discomfort and was grateful to Miss Samantha for calling him but Samantha read a different meaning into the way he stood up and felt he wanted to continue the side chit chat with Lucinda. He gently excused himself.
As he walked down the aisle to the podium where Samnatha was, she noticed the eyes of every girl turn towards Michael as he graciously walked down. A girl purposely dropped her len to the next step he was to take and he had to help her pick the pen. The ambience on the face of the girl was blinding. She looked like someone who had gotten some kind of enlightenment by receiving something from Michael. Samantha shoook her head and when he got to her, he collected the comment analysis forms from her without casting a glance twice at her. Samantha was confused but she blinked twice and calmed the raging emotions that were brewing in her depths.
As Michael passed the forms, girls were doing extra before they could collect their forms. Some would have to tuck their hair behind their ears and give that smile jittery shy smile before accepting it. Lucinda bit her lip and blew a kiss towards Michael as he gave her hers and contrary to Samantha's expectation…Michael smiled.
'What was that? He smiled? He has never smiled that broadly towards me? Why am I even thinking of that? That should be none of my business, right?'
"You all are meant to answer the questions in the comment analysis form in your hand and by 2 pm, Michael would be communicating to the class where he would be collecting it" Miss Klaus said to the class.
"Let's bring it to your house Michael!" One girl on the front role sang
"Yes, your house" another chorused.
"That's enough! We do not have all day. Let him make the decision" Miss Klaus ordered and focused back on arranging the papers she had used in teaching the class for that day.
"At the front of the basketball court" Michael briefly said to the hearing of all present in the room. Immediately he began to speak, the class became very silent and nobody said a word. It could be seen, the kind of power he had over the class though he is just one of the forced representatives of the class because he had always led the class grade wise and was not actually the main class representative.
"Alright Michael!" The girls chanted.
"Thanks Mr Jordan and that would be all for today!" Miss Klaus said and the class dispatched.
Michael and Tyler decided to grab brunch as they had not had anything in their belly since morning and had woken up early to prepare for the class. They agreed to have their brunch in the school cafeteria. It was within the school premises and their foods could be considered fair in taste.
Michael got a mega sandwich with a bottle of cold apple juice while Tyler got three slices of toasted bread and a glass of orange juice. They found the perfect spot - close to the window and they settled there and dug into their meals
As they ate, the girls that were sitting opposite them began to gossip.
"I heard that Professor Chen and that new lecturer are dating. What is her name again?" The brunette haired girl asked
"Miss Samantha…Miss Samantha Klaus if I am not mistaken!" The blonde haired girl said.
"So she used that innocent face of hers to seduce Professor Chen I gather. She is barely a month old in this institution and Professor Chen that other lady professors and senior lecturers have tried all they could to get to and failed unfortunately to a large extent, she just came and stole him at once"
"Are you sure of what you are saying? Most of these things can be mere baseless rumours* another brunette haired girl spoke up.
"Let's assume that it is just a rumour, how would you explain what I saw this morning?" The first brunette haired girl said and involuntarily Michael's hearing senses were sharpened to pick every little form of thing they were about to say.
"What was that?"
"We all are aware that whenever Professor Chen decides to bring a lunch box to school, he comes with either that grey lunch box or the ash coloured one, right?" The brunette haired girl said in a low tone but Michael could still hear all that she was saying.
'"This morning, I saw him with two lunch boxes. One is his and the other is one which I have never seen before - an emerald and white coloured one. As usual, I had walked behind him just to catch a glimpse of his adorable face but he had not taken the route to his.office but the route to…"
"Miss Klaus' office" the other girls at the table said I'm unison.
Michael could not bear another torture from their words and he jumped to his feet, causing his seat to scrape the tiled floor and the gossipping girls to be a bit startled.
He walked out of the cafeteria having eaten only a quarter of his mega sandwich with Tyler behind him, who still held onto one piece of his toasted bread and his orange juice in another hand.
"What's going on?" Tyler asked or sort of muttered because of the bread he had stuffed his mouth in his mouth.
"Nothing, can we go somewhere else?" Michael asked and began to walk away. Tyler had no choice but to go after his friend who was obviously in a foul mood.
Meanwhile, Samantha was in her office, having a video call with her son.
"My baby, how are you doing?"
"I'm good mum. How are you doing?"
"I'm very good now that I have seen you. What are you doing?"
"I'm playing with the spider man that mystery man gifted me" Joe said.
Samantha remembered who the mystery man was. The mystery man is Michael and he had bought a toy for her son one of those days when she had told him that her son had become so drawn to the movie 'Spiderman' and could not live out a whole week without watching it at least five times. It was like an addiction!