[Recap: The last Chapter was a filler but Paola, Justine, and Karma were passing out posters for an event that Mr.Maddow is in charge of. They were met with Mr.Rossi walking into the school building]

"I'm regretting not doing my homework because I don't think this extra credit is worth it," Paola says with a loud sigh as we stand at the back of the cafeteria, watching as Mr. Maddow is walking around the room talking to students and their parents.

Today was the day of the tutoring fair that Paola and I have signed up to participate in.  I missed your matter brought up this activity to our class nobody was looking forward to doing it. I already have extra credit, so I didn't need to participate in this either, but I felt bad when nobody was raising their hand.

Paola decided at the last minute to join because she's still not fully comfortable around Ryan yet and she's using the tutoring opportunity as a way to give herself something to do after school to distance herself from him.

Paola has always been the type to run away from her problems. But in this instance, I guess I can't fault her for wanting to put a little space between the two of them even though that's the last thing that Ryan wants.

He even started giving me money to pay for Paola whenever she drives off campus to eat lunch because she never eats school food. She thought I was paying for all of it and I let her think that because she really wouldn't take it if she knew it was his money.

I used to eat with Jesse and now that Paola had taken his place since Cyrus and Ryan confessed he had started complaining that everyone around him including myself had been trying to 'cockblock' him ever since the night that we found out about Justine's injury and things had gotten a bit...Rated R? I guess.

Was I ready to go that far with Jesse?

Only God knows because I am sure as I hell don't.

I'm not sure if our relationship is as practical as I want it to be. Do I really want to give Jesse something so special just for us to possibly not work out in the end?

I always thought that when I got my first boyfriend he would be best friends with my parents and I would be able to actually claim him like that. So far only the people in the school know that we're more than just friends. At the same time though, they don't exactly know the rumors about him are anything more than just that.

After seeing how quickly Pao and Ryan kind of fell apart, I had been wondering If I should be as scared as Paola is.

After all, Jesse is the head of it all.

I should be afraid but I don't know if I am. At least not for the reason I should be.

I'm not going to think about this again right now, standing in the back of my school's cafeteria at night getting ready to be hired as someone's tutor.

And it appears that Mr.Maddow thought the same way because his eyes found mine and Paola's from where he stood on the far right side of the room talking to a few parents of underclassmen students. He waves over to us.

We were about to head towards him when we saw Justine rolling towards the snack table with Cyrus behind her to help as he wheels her along.

"Is she not tired of lying?" I say to Paola as she tries to cover her mouth in an attempt to not laugh.

"It takes skill to lie for this long." she chuckles as we both cross our arms and a small smirk rests on her lips, "The poor boy is whipped."

Justine was still pretending to be disabled and at this point, Paola and I are waiting for shit to hit the fan because there's no way she's not going to mess this up and get caught it's only a matter of time.

We walked over to Mr.Maddow and decided to talk to Justine later. The little "speed dating" portion of this whole thing hasn't started but Mr.Maddow had been hinting at a surprise that all week that he couldn't wait to reveal at tonight's event.

When Paola and I get over to him, He smiles widely and introduces us to a few parents as he has us explain our qualifications for being tutors. Such things as our grade point average, the extracurriculars we participate in school, and other things to prove that we are well-rounded students.

As the other tutors who later decided to volunteer with trickling in, we were getting ready for the event to start.

I was scrolling through Instagram on my phone when two arms wrap around my waist causing me to jump in shock momentarily before I smell the familiar scent of his cologne as he lowers his head to rest it on my shoulder.

"You spend more time at school than anyone I've ever met," he says to me in a teasing tone causing me to roll my eyes but I didn't say anything in response knowing that it's true.

"I need something to put on my resume for college, Jesse," I say quietly watching as Mr.Maddow talks loudly where he stands at the front of the cafeteria as he explains how everything will go on tonight.

Jesse snickers lowly into my ear as he says, "College. A place that does nothing but scam people into spending money they don't have, to spend years working for money to pay back the money they borrowed." he says, "In other words, a legal scam."

I smile widely as I rub his arm absentmindedly at the way he explained all that, "I take it you're not a fan?"

"What gave it away?" he sighs

I laugh, "Well, it's not like I have a choice or anything. Taking loans and all. I need to start researching careers so that I know what to major in. I don't want to go into college undecided."

"I would tell you not to go but I've met your parents and I'd rather you not be disowned but, you ever thought about a gap year or something? One year to decide what you really want to do."

"I've thought about it but that's not really an option for me either. If I have to go undecided then I will, I just don't want to spend the rest of my life regretting my career choices."

"Well if you end up hating your career choice." he starts off, tightening his arms around me, "You could always work for me." He says pulling me close to the front of his body as my back is pressed up against his chest

"Um." I turn my head to the side to get a clearer look at him, "And do what? Are you gonna teach me to do half the stuff you and the guys do?"

"No." he says firmly pursing his lips and shaking his head, "You could do the minor stuff. All I would really need you to do is what you're doing now."

I tilt my head to the side in confusion looking up at him, "What am I doing right now?"

"Standing here and looking as gorgeous as you do," he says and I snicker to myself quietly, to cover up the way I'm swooning on the inside, feeling butterflies begin to swarm my stomach when he follows up by kissing me quickly on the cheek.

"You keep giving me compliments like that, you might actually get past first base soon," I say and he pinches my hip with a slight roll of his eyes

He scoffs lowly, "Is that all it takes? Well, in that case, Your skin has been glowing beautifully recently. You must've changed your skincare routine. And you smell great today, that body oil you wear is my favorite scent and I love wh--" I take my hand to cover his mouth quickly before he continues his almost endless stream of compliments.

He licks my hand and I remove it quickly from his mouth rubbing my hand over my joins to wipe it off quickly, "I think I get it now."

He chuckles and moves closer and pushes back one of my locs to lean into my ear to whisper, "Tell me I've hit second base."

I look away from him to face Mr.Maddow on the stage as he's still talking about the math department and all of the other activities that students can get involved in, trying to hide the smile that rests upon my lips but I'm sure I've failed when Jesse squeezes me tighter as we both tuned into what Mr.M is saying.

Or at least I tuned in.

"I don't understand why you waste your time helping this guy. Why can't you just go to class and go home like every other student." he almost whines and I slap the hand that was resting on the front of my stomach

"We could be doing literally anything else and you choose to spend your Friday night here helping him like you always do."

"Are you going to tell me why you can't stand him? Or are you going to leave me in the dark like Justine and Paola were?" I say turning to face him in genuine confusion because he always says things like this about Mr.Maddow and I can't understand why. I don't want to think he's jealous of him or something because he's literally just my teacher. I only hang around him for extracurricular purposes.

He looks at me silently for a few seconds and he licks his lips and rolls them into his mouth shaking his head, "I'd never leave you in the dark."

I nod at him and turn back to look at Mr.Maddow as we stand there in silence, the air becoming a bit tenser.

"So again, thank you all for coming out to Rochester's very first-speed tutoring event. Thank you to all the parents who have generously offered money to our math department but and behalf of the entire math department we would like to offer a special thanks to a rather generous donor. He graciously donated enough money to provide every child in the school with their very own TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculators." Applause fills the entire room as people begin to clap loudly at this new revelation and I let go of Jesse's hand that was playing with my fingers and join in.

"All of this over a cheap, plastic number box thing." Jesse says in the midst of all the noise and I take my right arm to use my elbow and jab him in the chest softly

"These calculators will make classroom instruction a lot easier now that we have enough for every student. Thanks again to Mr.Joseph Rossi." I raise an eyebrow at this and turn my head to the left side of the room where Mr.Maddow was pointing to and lo and behold, Mr.Rossi was right there.

I look back at Jesse and I'm met with a look of irritation plastered across his face clear as day as his jaw clenches. His eyes directly locked on Mr.Rossi.

Mr.Rossi's upper lip curls into a smirk as he raises a hand graciously. He licks his lips before he turns his head in our direction giving me a small smile as his eyes avert behind me, most likely looking at Jesse and sending a wave in our direction.

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[A/N] Hiiiiiiiii Thanks for Reading :)

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