fifty-one

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Recap: The last Chapter was a filler but pretty much Jesse and Karma established that they can't get freaky in her house because her parents don't want her to date :)

"Did you get the answers for math? I don't have the energy to hold a graphing calculator." Paola says to me as she's laid across the foot of her bed on her back looking through her phone, Justine sitting at the desktop computer chair to the right of the bed as I'm laid back against the headboard with my laptop on my lap.

Sighing, I open up the binder that was sitting next to me and pull out the worksheet that Mr.Maddow has given us to complete and return by the next class.

Throwing it at her, the sheet of paper lands directly on her face, blocking her vision from the phone. She says a quick thank you with the sheet still on her face before sitting up abruptly, it falling on her face as she turns her head to look at me.

"Now that we've got that out of the way, I have more time to focus on that fact that you're dating Jesse Duran" she scoffs jokingly and wiggles her eyebrows

I shrug my shoulders trying not to smile or laugh but I immediately fail when I crack a grin, shaking my head looking back at my laptop screen avoiding eye contact from the other two women in the room.

Hearing both of them 'aw!' at my reaction I immediately feel like leaving this room and never coming back, "Have you ever even had a boyfriend?" I hear Justine ask me and before I can answer, I hear Paola laugh loudly in both of our faces at the question and I roll my eyes but I choose to answer anyways

"Yeah...Jesse might be my first." I say quietly

"What's that? I don't think she heard you?" Paola says to me smugly

Picking up the pencil next to me, I chuck it at Paola's face hitting her square in the nose, "Next time I'll aim for the eye."

"You've never had a boyfriend?" Justine says placing her hand on her chest looking at me in shock

"No! Why is that so surprising? You guys have met my parents." I say this and it causes Justine to nod vigorously

"I get it. Nevermind," she says dismissing that part of the conversation

"I'm just disgusted that it's him." Paola says rolling her eyes as she looks back and forth from my paper to her own as she writes down the answers, "Would you ever introduce him to your parents."

"I already have." I shrug

"As your boyfriend?" They ask in unison and I shake my head, "They know he's my friend, and they both really like him."

"So you gonna keep him as a friend for your whole relationship?" Justine raises an eyebrow

Am I? I would love to tell my parents about him but just the idea of having a boyfriend alone has proven to be an issue in my household so I'd rather not. They're gonna be even madder when they find out that he's been my boyfriend and I've been bringing him to the house.

"Yes. He will be." I end up replying and they both start snickering to themselves

Paola sighs loudly and says, "I'm gonna go downstairs and get some drinks to you guys want anything?" Justine tells her that she just wants a water bottle and I say the same. Nodding her head Paola stands up from the bed and walks over to the door

When she twists the knob, we hear a loud thud come from the other side of the door. Justine and I both look up from what we were doing to look back at where Paola's standing at the doorway with her back turned to us as she has her arms crossed in annoyance.

We get up and walk to the door, Justine grabs the door and opens it wider and I cover my mouth as I try to hold in a laugh when I see that Brian is laying down, face-first on the ground as I'm guessing that he was listening on our conversations again.

He gets back up very quickly, as he begins to stand and uses his hand to dust himself off. When he's finished he looks up at the three of us and smiles.

Justine and I burst out in laughter as Paola shouts at him, "Brian! How many times have I told you to stop doing this when I have friends over."

He goes, 'pfft' and says, "I don't do this when all your friends are over." he looks directly at me and continues, "Only the ones that matter."

Justine scoffs and I can't help but snicker a bit before he goes onto say, "Did I hear you guys right when you said you had a boyfriend?" and our jaws drop as Paola uses her hand to smack him at the side of his head and pulls on his ear, we watch as he says 'ow' continuously

She lets go of his ear, grabs his shoulders, and turns him around to walk away but before he leaves he turns around and he says, "I don't know what this Jesse guy has that I don't, but this isn't over!" he points at me before Paola walks out of the door with him and slams it behind her as she's most likely going downstairs.

Justine and I look at each other as we hear the siblings begin to argue as they leave the room together and break out into fits of laughter at how Brian got caught for eavesdropping yet again.

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"I forgot to ask you how your birthday went. You had fun?" Mr.Maddow asks me as he takes the cap off of a red pen and begins to correct the papers in front of him 

"Yeah, my friends actually threw me a party. A surprise party. I wasn't really expecting it until my best friend kind of slipped up and told me." I say with a bit of a laugh And he looks at me in amusement

"She told you that you were having a surprise party. Doesn't that kind of ruin the surprise?" He begins to laugh as he continues thinking about it."What did you have to act surprised?" he asked me and I nodded beginning the giggle at the situation myself

He takes his hand and runs it through the front of his hair pushing it back a little bit, "Well I'm glad that you didn't stay home like you were talking about doing."

"So is there anything going on in your life so far? You know, besides the fact that you just turned 18," he says

Besides the fact that Jesse and I made things official..." No nothing really." I decide to say

He nods his head and says, "Really? Do you do any extracurricular activities at all?"

"I mean I don't know. I don't really have that much time to do anything like that now. But I work at this daycare after school whenever I'm not here." He nods his head with an almost impressed look on his face as he lays back in his chair crossing his arms looking at me in interest

"Do you know if that's a career you'd like to go into? You know, working with kids?"  he asked me thoughtfully

I take my pen in my hand and lean back into my own chair as well.  I don't know. I mean, I guess I never really thought of it but I have always liked working with kids, the daycare kind of showed me that. But would I go into it full time?  Would that be something that I could do for the rest of my life?

I shake my head a little bit and say, " I wouldn't mind. I don't know if I would work at a daycare for the rest of my life but maybe teaching. Maybe something like preschool, kindergarten first, or second grade. Something around there." I say gesturing with my hands

The left side of his lip begins to turn upwards with a bit of a smirk, "I can definitely see that for you."  he says,"So is there nothing else? Like maybe you made some new friends, got a new hobby, seeing anyone lately?"

I raised an eyebrow at how extensive and almost personal his questions are kind of getting.  I don't typically see teachers asking if their students are dating anyone nor how many friends they have, inquiring about birthday celebrations.

However, Mr. Maddow isn't like any other teacher. He's extremely young for that matter so I guess it kind of makes sense that he feels like he can relate to us because it wasn't long ago that he was our age.

I smile small and shrug my shoulders a bit, "No not really." I sigh, " Just school, the daycare,  staying with you here and going home."

a bigger smile begins to form on his face at my mention of staying with him in his room, "You know you can stop coming here if you wanted to right? You know, if you need more time to yourself. But I must say I do enjoy having your company."

I returned the smile and take the pain in my hand again looking down at the stack of papers that I have no front of me beginning to mark them, "Well I really like being here thank you for the opportunity,"

"Yeah not that you need the extra credit or anything. You're one of my best students."  he nods his head to licks his lips quickly, "One of my favorite students."

Not knowing what to say to that,  I just look at him with a small smile on my face averting my eyes back to my paper and tucking a braid behind my ear that had fallen in front of my face, the room going silent for a few seconds before I hear a door open quickly catching both of our attention and I watch as  Jesse stands at the door with an eyebrow raised looking at me before he turns his head and looks at Mr.Maddow but with a look of suspicion.

As I haven't seen him all day today,  I'm surprised that he's not wearing his usual black hoodie and he's opted for a short sleeve white T-shirt instead and black jeans to match.

After looking at Mr. Maddow for a few seconds I watch as he turns back to me and says, "You ready to go?" he says with a sigh, but the look in his eyes tells me he's anything but calm. I didn't even know he'd be picking me up today so something is telling me that he's not entirely in the mood for me to ask him any questions so I nod my head quickly and look over at Mr.Maddow as he watches me pack my things with a look on his face that I can't decipher but I continue to pack my things under the watchful eye of the two men as I suddenly feel a sense of deja-vu wash over me.

When my stuff is packed up in my bag, I take the sheets of paper that I didn't even finish grading and hand them to Mr.Maddow along with the pen of his that I borrowed. I said 'bye' to him quietly and I don't fail to notice the minimal unusual response I get from him as he gives me a quick, 'mhm' sound and I walk towards Jesse.

When I get to him he grabs my hand pulls me into his chest, to lay a swift kiss to the top of my head, looking straight ahead at Mr.Maddow as my face is buried in his chest, engulfed in his cologne before pulling away from me and escorting me out, allowing me to leave before him.

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[A/N] Talk about marking your territory oof

BTW I know I lied about it being Mr.Maddow's pov in one of my other announcements lmaoaooa it just didn't feel right yet

This isn't edited btw so there might be errors

Thanks for reading :)

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