My New Neighbour

Chapter forty-six

I squealed and thrashed to turn around when the two arms quickly wrapped themselves around my waist to stop me from behind and pulled me up.

"Babe!", Max groaned annoyingly by my reaction and turned me around to look at me with his eyebrows knitted together.

"Max!", I relaxed and smiled up at him.

"I thought it was the monster coming to get me for stealing one of his cats!", I rambled on about the story I read the other night before going to bed.

"What?", Max frowned down at me as if I grew two heads in two seconds.

"Uh - I - nothing!", I face palmed myself for acting like an idiot.

Yeah! An idiot!

Shut up, conscience! You've got the worst timing ever.

"Anyway, what are you doing here?", he asked after shaking his head negatively at my idiocy and looked around.

"Well I -

"You dance?", he suddenly asked after finally realizing that he was indeed standing in the dancing classroom.

"No, I sing!", I muttered cheekily and slapped the back of his head.

"Not again", he whined and pouted at me. I kissed his pout away before even realizing what I was doing. Everyone gasped at my actions. I felt the need of fanning my heated cheeks but under their scrutinizing stares, I simply pinched Max's T-shirt up his upper body and hid my face against his chest.

Max chuckled and I pressed my lips in a thin line to stop the smile threatening to show up on my face.

"Well, isn't it obvious that I dance if I'm currently in the dancing classroom?", I couldn't help but question his stupidity after a while.

"I guess", he shrugged while grabbing my right hand, interlacing our fingers together and then pulled me toward the door.

"Where are we going?", I asked him and he stopped to look at me.

"Did you forget? We have detention.", he pointed out and my eyes widened in shock. 

Shit! He's right, I forgot.

Everyone gasped again and I turned back to look at all my dancing mates, looking at us like we traveled through another planet. 

"What's wrong with you guys?", I inquired and they snapped back from their spacing out trance to really look at me.

Some of them shook their heads at me while some went back to their own personal talks and by talks, I mean gossiping about us like gossip girls. Well, not the guys, though. The guys looked really bored with the girls firing gossips around them. I'm sure this is how news spread around like wildfire but Chloe suddenly squealed like a fan girl and ran towards us.

"Why didn't you tell me that you're dating Max? That's like the most epic thing that could have ever happened in this school. The player finally mends his ways for a girl. This is like a book story where both the boy and the girl finally fall deeply in love and then gets married and have lots and lots of kids and they live happily ever after. But how the hell did you get a detention? You - ah-", she screamed when Greg lifted her up and carried her away on his shoulder but he turned back to wink at me.

"Let me just take care of that for you, bebé!", Greg yelled with Chloe shouting and pounding her clenched fingers into a fist over his back to leave her alone. I chuckled at them.

"Thank god!", I sighed and turned around to walk out with Max.

"Oh! Could you just tell Mrs Kim that I have detention and won't be there today?", I quickly asked Jane by the door and she nodded and smiled back at me.

"Thanks", I smiled back in gratitude and walked out.

We kept walking down the hallway and then stopped in front of a red door. The door is red. Red! Danger zone. Warning. Proceed at your own risk.

Something seems off about Max though. Why wasn't Max saying anything? Is something wrong? He seems okay back there in the dancing classroom but then what's wrong now? I couldn't help but think that he's really bipolar at this point. I shrugged and stepped forward to open the red door.

Before I could open the door, Max pulled me back and held me by my waist. He looked awfully mad with a grim expression taking over his face. My heart raced in anticipation as he narrowed his eyes at me. What did I do now? I frowned at his sudden change of attitude.

"Why did that boy call you.... baby?", he seethed through clenched teeth.

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