“Ouch!” He hissed out gritting through his teeth loudly while gaining everyone’s attention.
Oops… My bad!
“Fuck! Camilla… that hurts like hell,” He groaned stepping back from me while I stared at his left foot he raised slightly.
“Ms. Liam, is anything wrong?” Mrs. Justin asked as she craned her neck from where she was standing with a white hand glove in her hands already.
“No!” I and Lucas said at the same time as we slowly stared at ourselves making eye contact.
“If that’s the case, I don’t want any disturbances and carry on with your work,” She scolded with a loud scoff while I slowly tore my gaze away from Lucas’s scrutinizing stares.
“Sorry,” I mumbled lowly for him to hear, while I picked the white gloves on the table and started wearing them as I felt the delicate latex wrap around my finger, then my entire hand and I did the same for my left hand too.
“It’s okay,” He said as he tried to bring out his white lab coat from my bag while I suddenly feel guilty for stepping on his toe.
‘I shouldn’t have stepped on him that hard,’ I thought regretting my actions.
“I’m fine, little sparrow but there’s going to be a punishment for this later,” He whispered lowly into my ear as the hair on my skin stood erect while my body got invaded with goosebumps as I cringe at the sound of his voice.
I swallowed the lump in my throat and finally decided to take a better look at the content on the table and I nearly throw up.
“What are we to do with that thing?” Lucas pointed out staring irritated at the dead rat neatly placed in a moderate glass tray.
“Eat it,” I smirked and quickly looked at his face to see his expression which had turned pale white already.
“You got to be kidding me,” He said blankly, blinking his eyelashes before he finally stare down at me as I tried to muffle my laughter.
“We’re dissecting it, dummy,” I said rolling my eyes as I slowly picked the cutter on the table and grabbed the dead rat by its tail, and placed it on the metal tray.
“I’m not touching it,” He deadpanned with a look of astonishment on his face.
“I never knew the bad boy is so terrified of rats,” I chuckled cutting the stomach of the dead rat.
“I’m not terrified, I just don’t like the creature,” He scoffed with a sneer evident on his face as he leaned on the table and watched cutting up the poor little animal.
“You are, silly,” I laughed lightly as I turned to look at him with a frown on his hot handsome face.
“You called me Dummy at first, now it’s silly,” He smirked devilishly standing up erectly as he moved closer to me, I could feel the heat emanating from our bodies as he stood at my back.
I gulped in as I felt his hands rest on my cheek ass…
“Did I?” I asked on purpose avoiding his intense stares as I focused my attention on the dead rat I was dissecting.
“You’re really good in teasing but I can make you scream, cry, and beg by the time I start my real punishments on you,” He whispered in my left ear as I forcefully swallowed the lump in my throat. I tried to focus on the poor animal I was dissecting but he has gotten into my head again.
Memories of what happened between us yesterday freshened in my head as I found myself biting my bottom lips.
The feeling I had yesterday was too intense and exotic.
‘Gosh!’ I thought as my cheeks reddened.
I looked up glancing around to see that no one was paying attention to us but everyone was focused on whatever thing they were doing while they murmured and whispered among themselves.
I looked forward to where Mrs. Justin was standing but she was facing the side of her table as she was also busy with what she was doing.
“Lucas!” I called lowly as he stretched his arms over mine and covered his large hands over mine as I held the knife still, closing my eyes.
“What is i-”
“Gross!!!” A girlish voice squealed as my eyes flung open immediately while I scooted away from Lucas as I stared at the girl who had a riled expression on her face while my eyes drifted to what she was holding, it was a frog with its intestine out.
Everyone’s attention was drifted to her, some mumbled while some chuckled pointing at the poor frog.
Shit! That’s irritating…
Lucas stared annoyingly at the girl holding the split frog in her hands, I gazed at his face which had a killer look, and he looked like someone ready to pounce on the girl.
“Felicia, Stop with the fuss and get back to work,” Mrs. Justin said with a deadpanned look while the dark hair girl groaned and threw the frog on the metal tray annoyingly.
“I wonder why we are having such a disgusting practical in the first place,” Lucas groaned beside me as he leaned on the table a bit farther from where I was dissecting the rat.
“To boost our grades,” I answered nonchalantly as if he doesn’t know why we were doing it in the first place.
He glared at me and attempted to grab my wrist while I flinched away, then suddenly the door opened only to see Ben walking in with his hands dipped in his pocket, sauntering like he owned the class, he didn’t even bother greeting the teacher who was throwing murderous glares at him.
“Ms. Clarke!” Mrs. Justin shouted furiously while Ben stopped in his track without sparing her glance.
“You spoilt little brat! How dare you come to my class this late and yet walk as you own everywhere?” Mrs. Justin shouted with rage while everyone watched the show with keen interest.
“Sorry ma’am, I have a bad day and I’m not that well,” He said nonchalantly facing the raging teacher while he gave her a bored look.
“Very well then that will tell in your grades,” Mrs. Justin scoffed.
“Everyone gets to work! And you Ben find your partner, you won’t leave this class until you’ve done your work,” She said while Ben just shrugged and started walking to the back.
Something seems off about him…
“Hey!” I called out to him when he got closer to our table.
He turned in our direction and a sad smile lit up his face as he came over to us.
“Are you okay?” I asked worriedly him staring into his oceanic eyes.
“You want to start caring for him too?” Lucas asked jealousy evident in his voice as I turned my face to glare at him but he stared at me with a hardened look making me let out an exasperated sigh.
“I’m fine just thought I would skip this morning class, I didn’t want to get involved in this,” He said staring disgustingly at the dead rat I was dissecting.
“Oh! I see,” I chuckled taking notes of his face but noticed he just came up with that as an excuse, something was definitely wrong with him but I decided not to push further.
“Scumbag!” Lucas scoffed and checked his golden wristwatch which had light touches of diamond on it as he tapped his finger on the table.
Ben looked up to give Lucas a death glare while Lucas smirked cockily at him….
We stayed in the biology lab for 30 more minutes before the life-saving bell rang.
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I pushed the girls’ restroom door slightly as it made a creaking sound, I walked over to the sink removing the stained gloves from my hands as I threw them into the nearby dustbin.
I opened the tap letting the cool water wet my hands as I grab an antiseptic liquid soap on the sink and applied a little amount of the bluish liquid on my hands.
I rubbed my hands together creating a lather while I heard footsteps approaching me.
“Well! Well!! Who do we have here?” I heard a voice say behind while another voice chuckled behind me, I know those voices too well as I looked up to stare at the mirror in front of me and saw the images of Susan and Bella crossing their arms over their chest with a sly smile on their crazy faces.
‘These two, it’s been a while I’ve made an encounter with them’ I thought momentarily in my mind as I switched on the tap and started rinsing off the lather from my hands.
Why didn’t they just leave along with Jenny or did they both want to pick up from where she stopped?
If that’s the case, I’m not giving room for any of that again.
“What do you two want?” I asked nonchalantly taking the napkin on the iron rack to dry up my hands.
“Just to say sorry for what we’ve done to you,” Susan spoke up making me look at her through the mirror surprisingly.
“Yeah! And we’re happy that you and Lucas look so cute together… and so happy,” Bella said dreamily before I heard the ‘Ouch’ word escape Bella’s lips with a grimaced look on her face.
“Why did you kick me? That hurts,” Bella yelled glaring at Susan.
“That’s not what we came here for, we came here to make an apology,” Susan taunts rolling her eyes at Bella while I was watching them intimately through the mirror.
Surprised was an understatement for me, I can’t believe these two proud heads finally came low to make an apology to me, this is just so intriguing.
“Yeah! Camilla are you just going to stare at us through the mirror and not sa-”
“I’ve heard you guys,” I said cutting Bella off while I turned to face them with a thin smile on my face after I had kept the napkin back to its place.
Without waiting for them to say anything with an amused look on their face, I started walking away.
“Really? That’s so nice of you, thank you so much,” I heard Susan say behind me.
I got closer to the door and opened it with Bella shouting, “Hope we’ll be friends soon!”
A light chuckle escaped my lips as I closed the door behind me.
I can’t believe they apologized for their wrongdoings…
A little smile crept on my lips as I walked through the hallway before I saw Beatrice making a turn towards her locker.
“Beatrice!” I called out amidst the students walking to and fro along the hallway, she stopped in her tracks and craned her neck to see who was calling her.
I fastened my pace so she could see me.
“Beatrice! It’s me,” I coughed lightly when I got closer to her before she settled her eyes on me.
“Hey,” She greeted pressing the books in her arms closer to her breast.
“Are you okay?” I asked noticing the uneasiness settled on her beautiful face. She packed her hair into a high ponytail.
“No!” She sighed and gripped my wrist suddenly as she pulled me to the corner of her locker.
“Wha-”
“It’s Ben,” She breathed deeply as she closed her eyes.
“We had a discussion yesterday night, so we talked about the university we will be attending, his choice was different from mine and I won’t say because he’s my boyfriend would make leave my dreams to satisfy him, and ever since he had been off,” She said annoyingly.
“Yeah! I took notice of that in class,” I responded staring at my best friend’s face, I wonder why I haven’t thought about university or college lately.
“I’ll talk-”
“Don’t Camilla, if he can’t wait for me or let me achieve my dreams, then he should fuck off,” Beatrice spat furiously while I gulped at her, there she goes again getting all angry and I know the kind of friend I have, nothing can change her mind if she has determined to do it.
“What university are you going to?” I asked looking sheepishly at her, something was telling me I might not be seeing my one and only best friend after high school.
“I’m leaving the states, Camilla,” She sighed placing her palms on her forehead.
“Okay,” I nodded feeling sad and heartbroken that my best friend would be leaving too.
“Camilla, I should have told you since but-”
“I understand,” I said cutting her off trying to sound firm even though my voice was shaky at the moment.
“You do?” She asked moving closer to me as she grabbed my arm.
“Yeah!” I smiled thinly at her, gazing into her grey eyes which were clouded with doubts.
“We will always be together before I go to university, we still have time left for ourselves and immediately I’m done studying I’ll be back,” She said and I nodded smiling at her genuinely, I couldn’t blame her because everyone has a dream to achieve.
“Come here,” I said wrapping my hands around her as I hugged her.
The bell rang and we drew away from each other.
“Sort things out with Ben,” I pouted poking her shoulder while she sighed.
“I’ll try,” She breathed out.
“Okay, See you by break!” I waved at her.
“Sure!” She smiled and waved back too, I nodded in confirmation and made my way to the next class.