Opposites Attract

10. skipped classes & long lasting smiles

"Why would she want that?"

"Because..." Hayden softly touched my hair. "She likes him."

"I thought I heard my name!"

I instantly jumped back from Hayden and looked up with wide eyes to see Noah standing in front of Hayden and I with a wide grin on his lips.

But that grin didn't last long when Noah frowned. "Damn Khloe, you look like you've seen a ghost."

The sound of Hayden's laughter filled my ears. "Hey man."

Noah patted Hayden's shoulder quite roughly. "Hey, how are my favorite people?"

"Hey, Noah." I smiled. "I'm good, how are you feeling?"

Noah rubbed his forehead. "My head still kinda hurts, but it's all good!"

Within the next few minutes the bell rang and Noah waved goodbye as he walked away to go to his first period class.

Because of the mentoring program, Hayden and I still did have two classes together. First period was Chemistry, but we also had last period photography together.

Hayden and I walked to class in silence, and it wasn't necessary comfortable. Before Noah had interrupted, Hayden had been standing unexpectedly close to me. I could feel his warm breath against my skin.

I walked into the class first and sat near the back of the room. Of course, as soon as I sat down Hayden threw his bag down on the floor near my feet and took a seat right beside me. I glanced over at him slowly, and much to my surprise he was already looking at me.

"Didn't your mother tell you that staring is rude?" I huffed turning my head towards the front of the class in attempt to focus on whatever the teacher was teaching. Something about ions and protons. I honestly didn't know. Chemistry has always been confusing to me.

Hayden let out a low chuckle. "I could say the same thing about you."

I turned my head back around to look at Hayden. "What?"

Hayden shook his head, casting his hazel green eyes to the ground. "I mean, it's just every time I turn around I can feel your eyes burning holes into my back."

A slightly loud gasp left my mouth. "That's not true!" I tried to whisper because there was still a lesson going on. "You're talking about yourself."

Hayden laughed and when he smiled the sides of his lips curled upward. "You're funny, Khloe."

I shook my head, my curls bouncing up and down. "Yeah, I've been told that before." A wide smile broke onto my lips as well, so I quickly placed a hand over my mouth in attempt to cover my smile from Hayden. "That's why—"

"That's quite enough, Khloe King!" The teacher yelled loudly and all eyes in the classroom immediately turned to look at me. "Why are you distracting our new student?" Mr. Brooke snapped with a stern look on his face. That poor man. He looked like he was in his late fifties, wore clothing that was a little too large for his small fragile frame, and always had a red face. "You are supposed to be mentoring and guiding him."

Without even looking over at Hayden I already knew he was trying a little too hard to contain his laughter. "I'm really sorry, Sir." I glanced down. "Hayden was just asking me a question about the homework."

Mr. Brooke tilted his head. "What homework?" He snapped and the class broke out into laughter.

My eyes widened. "Didn't we have homework?"

"That's it," Mr. Brooke sighed loudly. "Both of you get out of my class immediately!"

Without any hesitation Hayden picked up his bag and got out of his chair with a wide smile playing on his full lips. "Come on mentor girl." He whispered glancing my way.