14okay dudes this is chapter four hope you like it, cause theres plenty more where that came from!
Chapter Four
It was the end of the day and an audible groan of freedom was heard throughout the whole school all except from Kate, who was currently indulging in frenzied nail biting and excessive pacing; I guess you could say she was nervous…
She was standing in Mr Benetton's classroom awaiting the arrival of her new tutee, she was so on edge that whenever she saw a student pass by the door she would swiftly stand up ramrod straight, as if she was standing to attention.
Realising that she had not even combed her hair that morning she ran her shaky hands though her mane, only succeeding to make it greasy. So she stopped altogether what she was doing and sat on her hands in frustration.
Mr Benetton noticing the students' strange behaviour looked mildly concerned when she started to mutter barely comprehensible words, "Are you all right Miss Johansson? Forgotten to take your medication?" He chuckled softly at his own joke, Kate realising that he had spoken to her laughed uncertainly.
"Erm… I'm all right sir, its just that we've been waiting here for over a quarter of an hour and this guy hasn't even shown his face yet, and to top it all off I have a detention that I should be attending but I have missed so i'm probably gonna have to make up for it tomorrow!" She took in a huge gulp of air, realizing that she had forgotten to breathe.
Mr Benetton quirked an eyebrow and said breezily, "Well I have the knowledge that Mr McIntosh is a member of our school football team and possess certain privileges that some of us do not" he looked bitter at the thought of some dim witted jock who was treated better than the teachers who educated him.
"Oh… I didn't know that we even had a football team, are they good?" Kate asked the man at the desk, hoping to start up a decent conversation even though she knew absolutely nothing of the sport.
"'are they any good?!'" Came a deep husky voice from somewhere in the region of the doorway. There, leaning slightly on the framework of the door was Sawyer McIntosh. He had one brow cocked, with an expression of disbelief, "We have the best team in the entire state man!"
Kate blinked in surprised at being called a man; she had been called plenty of other things but never a man.
Putting her thoughts safely back into their box she proceeded to make a fool of her self by falling off the table she was precariously perched on. She landed with a loud thud on the dirty linoleum floor.
"Ooof!" she landed on her back, spread eagled on the floor with two men peering at her closely.
"Are you ok? Need help?" sawyer asked her, oh how kind, she thought and extended her hand towards him and nearly got her arms pulled out of their sockets when he hauled her up in one swift tug. "Wooaaaaah!" she went from horizontal on the floor to vertical in 2 seconds flat.
The pull was so forceful the she crashed headlong into his collar bone, snubbing her nose as well as nearly wiping him out too. "Whoa, steady now." He held her by her elbows into his chest.
Kate's POV
What the hell just happened there? I had no time to think when I felt myself being yanked off the floor by a pair of extremely large hands; I heard a whoosh of air by my ear as I sailed towards him, not having enough time to stop I promptly crashed headlong into him, and nearly breaking my nose.
Son-of-a-bitch that hurt!
I was nursing my nose when I realised that I was tucked firmly into his chest, this invasion of my personal space wasn't doing me any favors in the 'keep it cool stakes' I started to squirm in his hold on my elbows.
He loosened his grip and I sprang free, gasping slightly, the look on his face clearly said that he was getting pissed, "So you must be the chick who's gonna make me smart?!" he didn't seem embarrassed to admit that he was stupid, which I found slightly unnerving.
Weren't guys supposed to be really defensive about those things? I thought to my self.
But as usual the voice in my head piped up its opinion; how would you know? You have never been near a guy before in your life, ha!
I have too! I'm near Drew nearly every day, he counts as a guy!
I brushed away the mental taunting and answered the question, "Uh, yeah, that's me!" I said lamely. But to my surprise he smiled at me, exposing a row of pearly whites, my heart fluttered in my chest.
I had forgotten that Mr Benetton was in the room as well, but just then he cleared his throat and said, "now that we have the small talk over with, we shall proceed. And Mr McIntosh please put those away or else you might blind us all" the sarcasm was dripping so heavily from those words that it wiped the grin off Sawyer's face.
I couldn't help but giggle a little at the jibe. I tried to stifle them honest I did but once I get going I can't stop, I earned a look of utter hostility from Sawyer; which shut me up fast.
Mr Benetton looked smug as he continued, "As you know, Mr McIntosh, you need to improve greatly in the selected areas" he handed him a sheet of paper containing the areas that he was to revise, "I expect you to get at least 75 in your next examination or else I might have to fail you, and you'll have to sit this grade again; is that what you want?" he looked questioningly at him, I could see sawyer squirming uneasily under his gaze and said, "No sir, I don't! I will try hard. I. will. Not. Fail" he had a menacing quality in his eyes that were a bit sinister.
"Good! Now if you don't have any questions then I'll be on my way" he packed
A few things into his briefcase and put on his tweed jacket and whistled his way out of the classroom, leaving us to bask in an awkward silence that was big enough to moor a ship in.
Thank god that he decided to break the silence, "So whose house are we going to?"
"I thought that we could meet at the library?" I said cautiously hoping he would agree, I saw the thought flickering in his mind, he was obviously mulling over the possible repercussions that it might have on his reputation if he was to be sighted at the library.
I hoped that he might swallow his damned pride and agree.
"Ok." That's all he said, those two beautiful syllables. There was no way I was going to have Sawyer McIntosh come over to my house, especially not now when the place looked like a hurricane had taken a detour and decided to trash my house.
"Okay! Sure I'll meet you tomorrow at the library, be there 6:00 O'clock sharp" this was so weird, me telling Sawyer to meet me at the library, wild!
"Yeah, ok. I might be a bit late with all the football practice and all. So shall we say, oh…umm…. 6:30?" he must have seen my face fall because the next thing I know he said, "But I'll try to be there as early as I can, yeah?" I cheered up instantly and replied, "Alright tomorrow."
He gave me a small smile and turned to leave.
Oh wow he actually smiled at me. Me!
Wait till Drew hears about this!
A/N: okay sorry for the delay, but i finally updated, woohoo, bring out the party hats!
thanks for all the reviews guys, but if i dont get aleast 50 more reviews for this chapter then it'll have to go on hiatus...- muahahahahahahh!
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