Everything But My HEART♥

♥Chapter 18: Steal Your Heart♥

I struggled to pull my legs inside the science classroom. I don't know if I can face the fact that I did 'love' him. I mean like him.

Him.

Ethan...

My annoying childhood acquaintance..

My brother's best friend..

My creepy babysitter..

The guy who knew me ever since I was three..

The guy whom my parents want to be my husband..

The only person whom I cannot stand..

My science teacher...

Crap.

This is going to be fun.

"Thinking of me again?", a voice called from the front.

So what?

"You wish.. Now what?", I demanded, trying all my efforts to conceal the blush, which is hard to resist.

Especially when I finally admitted my feelings for him to myself.

He smirked to me a little but then, it turned out to be a smile.

I tried to supress my own smile too.

How am I going to act with him? Should I stay cold?

Or act just the same after all?

Just the same for God's sake Jess!

"W.. What are we going to do now? Umm.. Here?", I asked awkwardly.

Gosh. I shouldn't make myself look uncomfortable in just saying these.

I immediately cleared my throat to look a bit intimidating and hoped that it would work.

He stood up from his desk and made his way towards me.

Oh oh.

I could feel my heartbeat increasing its beat. Faster than I could ever have.

For a few moments I was lost in my train of thoughts and I am entirely fascinated at the young man walking in front of me.

How come that I didn't appreciate his good looks up to this time?

Ethan took a sharp intake of breath before answering.

"Well.. I'm really sorry for what I said earlier, Jess. I shouldn't have said that.", he murmured.

I was dumbfounded upon hearing this.

You know, it's not everyday that Ethan's saying sorry to me. I still remembered when I was in my eighth grade and he accidentally stomped on my left toe and didn't say sorry to me just because he didn't feel like apologizing. My fracture stopped me from going to our school dance and that situation made me hate him more. I ignored him for about two weeks until he gave me a birthday present which is a heart necklace. Ethan's lucky I'm easy to bribe up during those days.

Getting back to reality. So Ethan is apologizing. Did I hear it right or do I need a specialist to help check my eardrums?

"Hold on. I didn't catch it all. What did you say anyway?", I said, trying to be an innocent as much as possible.

I looked at him determinedly and I'm not sure if he's just messing up or what. But there's a great possibility that he didn't buy my answer. My bad.

"Oh come on don't make me say it again..", he sighed.

"Say what?", I pried on.

Ethan looked at me and shook his head in defeat. He grunted and took a few steps away from me. I heard him murmuring to himself. I think I catched- up things like 'stubborn' and 'naive'.