Heart Strings <3 ~Complete

Heart Strings Chapter Seven

‘Do you use botox?’ I blurted.

He looked at me for a moment, our eyes interlocked. It was strange. He had such deep, blue, ocean eyes... I couldn’t help thinking that it felt like one of those awkward romantic movie moments. That is, of course, before he had to go ruin it and laugh. Which was good. That he ruined it. Or it could have been embarrassing.

‘Of all the things to say,’ he choked out between convulsions.

‘Nathan King! Out!!’ Mrs. McLeod squawked.

With an arrogant smirk (told you,) he rose and left the room gracefully, controlling his laughter, followed by Mrs. McLeod. As Aimee had said earlier, it was almost unreal that I had barely noticed him before.

I looked around the classroom which had increased by about a thousand decibels. Tabby, Mel, Adam, Aimee and Sammie were all looking at me with a mixture of confusion and...smugness? If that was a word. I even mouthed “what” to each of them but they just grinned at me and Tabby even winked. They must have obviously thought I was saying something else! Why else would they look smug when I simply said “what”?

Nathan walked back in looking as laid back as ever with poor Mrs. MacLeod trotting along behind him, looking the exact opposite.

With Nathan back in his seat, Mrs. MacLeod began filling everyone in on some pointless notices. Of course, at that point, everyone switched off.

‘What did she say then?’ I wanted to know.

‘We-ll,’ he sighed, resting his chin on his palm, ‘only that her and her husband are having problems. She wants to know if I would be able to help them out. The stresses of being me...’ I raised an eyebrow. ‘What? Don’t worry. I told her I am busy for a while. You know, I think we should go out after school today.’

‘What?!’ I coughed. Nathan put a slim finger to his lips. We both glanced at Mrs. MacLeod. Phew. Still going on about something GCSE-wise.

‘To discuss the thing... You know,’ he winked. ‘Unless you wouldn’t mind-’

‘No, no that’s fine... But I don’t really think it’s a good idea any more...’

‘Aww! How come? I’ve already told the guys. They’ll be real upset if you Red girls quit. They thought your song was pretty good. Plus,’ he leaned in slightly closer to me. I froze, barely breathing.

Oop.

‘Ian especially. Don’t say anything, but I think he has a thing for Sammie.’ Ugh. Breathe out again. ‘Seriously!’ he insisted. I smiled slightly. He looked like an over-excited puppy with his eyes shining and his black boy-ish hair falling into them. ‘And I really can’t wait. This is going to be absolutely awesome.’

‘Yeah, yeah,’ I huffed playfully. My eyes drifted over to Ian, then to Sammie, and back again. They were both staring out into space, their faces vacant.

G’aww. They would actually look pretty cute together. And Sammie was saying what a nice ‘tush’ he had-

‘What a nice what?!’

‘Stop listening to my head!’

The bell rang. Finally the end of registration. The sound of chairs scraping back could be heard in Tokyo.

‘So, maths next?’ Nathan yawned.

‘Yup.’

‘Set two?’ I eyed him, alarmed.

‘Jeez Nathan, seriously now... stalker alert?’ He grinned down at me. Thump-thump.

‘Nah. Ian saw you yesterday. Ian and David are in set two too.’

‘Ah so you’re getting your henchmen to do the dirty work are you?’ I joked. He only smiled, I noticed the corner of his eyes crinkle too. Dammit.

‘Hey! Sephy,’ I heard from behind me, and sure enough, before you could say “hello there,” Adam was at my side.

‘Hey, um, Nathan, Adam, Adam, Nathan.’ I introduced humbly. They nodded at each other, as is the masculine way.

‘Nice to meet you.’ Adam sang (as is the Adam way.)

‘And you.’ Nathan replied. ‘I’ll see you later then.’ And he was off like the wind, once again, bag swinging against his waist, looking incredibly mysterious and whatnot.

‘Hey, Nathan!’ I called after him.

He turned around, ‘yeah?’

I sighed inwardly and forced myself to open my mouth and speak, ‘...why? Why are you great?’ He laughed and winked at me before turning away and carrying on through the corridor. Adam looked at me, his eyebrows raised. I shook my head, just as confused as he was.

Well.

It seemed El Diablo had struck again.