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Me: Are you free after school today? or do you have football practice?

Dante the dickhead: Today after school is okay with me, at your place?

Me: Sure.

I sigh and tuck my phone back into my pocket, taking a bite of my cold school sandwich.

I should probably change Dante's name on my phone to something less...rude.

Actually... Never mind, I like to the way it is.

"I literally can't wait for midterms to finish, Revising seriously makes me want to vomit" Evelyn groans and lays down on the grass, Kiera nodding her head in agreement.

"It's honestly not even that bad, and I'm a senior. Shouldn't it be harder?" Lucas states looking up at the sky.

"Do you take chemistry?" I ask him. Maybe if he took Chemistry, Dante wouldn't have to help me.

"Haha, you're funny. You really think I would take that subject? it's the worst. A pain in the ass" Lucas laughs.

"Ugh, I honestly don't know why I didn't drop that subject."I shake my head and place it in the palms of my hand.

"I would have helped you if I took that subject, but I don't. Sorry" Lucas turns to look at me.

"Dante's tutoring me" I groan and lay down on the grass, school just sometimes makes me want to...scream. Scream till I physically can't anymore.

"Oh" Kiera raises her eyebrows and looks at me, a small smirk on her face.

I ended up telling Kiera and Lucas about the whole Dante and I sleeping together fiasco, a few weeks after I had told Evelyn. 

"Shut up Kiera" I grumble and flip her off, she just rolls her eyes and sticks her tongue out at me.

All of them just laughing.

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School was over and I walked out of the building seeing Cohen about to enter his car.

"Cohen!" I call out and walk up to his car.

"What's wrong?" He asks.

"Nothing, I just wanted to let you know in advance that Dante's coming over to help me with Chemistry" I say.

"Oh okay, you still don't understand?" He laughs.

"It's not funny, He's basically explaining the whole unit to me from the beginning cause I literally understand nothing" I sigh.

"It's alright, you've got the spirit. You'll grasp onto it" Cohen encourages, a laugh bubbling from his throat. I send his a sarcastic smile before waving and walking to my own car.

I reached home and decided to take a quick shower since I still had some time before Dante came.

After a quick shower, I changed into some comfy shorts and a white top, walking down the stairs and I saw Judy in the kitchen.

"Heya!" I greet and sat on the counter.

"Off the counter" Judy glares at me playfully.

I roll my eyes and slide off the counter before sitting on the high stool and resting my head in my arms.

"I'm hungry" I mumble.

"I made brownies, If you want some" Judy smiles and places a piece on a plate for me.

"Ouu, thank you!" I smile and basically shove the whole piece in my mouth. While I was still struggling to chew on the full brownie that was in my mouth, the bell rung. I walk to the door and open it while still chewing on my brownie.

"mm! hm mh" I try speaking but the brownie was still in my mouth so it just sounded like mumbling, so I just gestured at Dante to come in.

Once I was able to speak, I told Dante to sit in the living room so I could get my books.

There's no way I'm taking him up to my bedroom.

"Alright, where did I stop last?" He asks, letting out a sigh before running hands through his hair that fell in front of his eyes.

"Reagent reactions" I simply say.

"Right. Do you know how to calculate its masses?" He asks looking at me.

"Nope" I shake my head and sent him a sheepish smile.

This is definitely going to take more than just one day to learn all the stuff in the unit.

Fuck me.

"Alright then...this is going to take longer than I expected" Dante mumbles.

I'm honestly shocked with how patient he is.

Around half an hour into Dante explaining things to me, my mom walks into the house and smiles when she sees Dante.

"Oh hi Dante, I haven't seen you since last month" She says walking into the living room and squeezes my shoulder in a way of acknowledging me.

"He was literally here yesterday" I mumble.

"Oh right," My mom says, in realisation.

"Well, you guys carry on. I'll be up in my room" She simply smiles before walking upstairs.

Dante helped me understand some concepts but around 2 hours in, I was slowly starting to get more annoyed at Chemistry in general. Why does it have to be so complicated?

"How about I explain the rest to you later? you're clearly not going to understand anything I say if you're not in the mood to listen" Dante says looking at me.

"I'm so so sorry, I get distracted easily, and the concept on Chemistry is getting on my nerves. When would you be free next?" I ask turning my attention to him.

"It's okay, you're lucky I'm very patient," He jokes.

"How about Friday?" He adds on.

"That's okay with me" I nod my head and turn back to the books laying in front of me on the living room table, before subtly flipping off the books with a glare. I saw Dante crack a smile from the corner of my eyes.

"When's your Chemistry exam?" Dante asks standing up from the sofa and stretching, causing his shirt to ride up, exposing a bit of the band to his underwear and his lower abdomen.

I avert my eyes and decided to focus on the book, fiddling with the corner of the pages.

"It's my first exam of the midterm and it's next week Thursday" I reply standing up as well.

"I'm sure you'll be able to grasp onto the concept before then" Dante says.

I nod my head and walk him to the door, He bids me goodbye before I close the door behind him.

I left out the fattest sigh before collecting the books from the living room table and dragging myself up the stairs.

Tutoring with Dante isn't even that bad, I have no idea why I was worrying about it so much.

It was currently almost 6:30pm, Dad had left at around 6 for the airport. Since I had already taken a shower before, I just decided to lay in bed on my phone, When I see a text from Evelyn.

Evelyn: idk if you're done with the study session with Dante, but if you are, how did it go? ;)

Me: It's actually wasn't that bad, he's really patient with making sure I understand what i'm doing. He's also surprisingly really good at Chemistry.

Evelyn: is Anaïs developing a crush??

Me: Oh shut up, talking about how someone is good at something doesn't mean that i'm developing a crush on them -_-

Evelyn: sounds like denial to meee.

Me: Are you serious Evelyn? stop it. I do NOT have a crush on that guy. I never would, he's a douchebag lmaoo.

Which is some what a lie, he's been acting pretty normal with me.

Evelyn: Is it just me or have you been noticing how he hasn't been kissing some random chicks face in the middle of the hallway for almost a month now, or how he hasn't slept with any girl in school for almost a whole month now?

Evelyn: Tell me if i'm wrong but Dante not sleeping with a girl for over a month is definitely something he doesn't do. And be honest, has he really been a douche bag to you for the past month?

Evelyn has got a point, Dante's acting different, He hasn't told my brother to excuse him from football practice lately. Which may not seem weird, but for someone like Dante, it definitely is.

Me: He hasn't been acting like a douche but that doesn't mean that he's not hooking up with girls. And who am i to care about what he does with his life.

Evelyn: I can't wait for the day you tell me you're crushing on him :)

Me: fuck off.

I don't like that dude in that way, I never would. Yes, I might have slept with him but it was just in the spur of the moment. It meant nothing to both of us. Right? Yeah.

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