Different

Chapter 44

I'm lowkey sad cause ever since I had to take a break for a month, I lost so many readers and I don't really know what to do.

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Just as I was about to object his statement, the teacher walks in, cutting me off. I take a second look at the teacher. This isn't Mrs. Harris. It's a guy. A quite young one too. He looks nervous, biting his lip. He runs his hand through his brown curly hair and starts talking.

"I'm Mr. Brown and I'll be your teacher for the rest of semester, since Mrs. Harris got into a car accident," he smiles nervously, as all the girls in class look at him in awe.

I'm not gonna lie. He is good looking, but I have Luke, so I don't really pay his looks much attention. I must admit that his green eyes really stand out.

In the middle of our lesson, Luke kisses my cheek. Confused, I look at him and he grins. I draw my eyebrows together, shaking my head and look back into my notebook. With the corner of my eye I can see Luke smirking at the teacher.

He's not doing what I think he is.

Right?

He's a teacher for God's sake.

When the class ends I get a text. It's from Angie. Luke looks into my phone, reading it.

Hey! Angie here. I was wondering if you might wanna catch up and drink some coffee sometime? I think we can be great friends x

"I have to talk about something with you, when we get home," Luke whispers into my ear and walks in his class, while I walk into mine, thinking what he meant by that.

"What did I do now" is the first thing that pops up in my head. Usually, I'm always the one messing everything up. At least that's what he tells me. All the time.

When I walk into my class, all the thoughts disappear as I see Jack, sitting there. I stumble towards my chair, trying to not look at him. Why is he here exactly? A lot of people from his class are here. What's happening?

The teacher walks in, explaining that we'll have more classes with the "older" students, so we can learn from eachother.

So that's fucking great.

He arranges us into pairs and Jack volunteers to be with me.

That's even more fucking great.

We have an assignment to do, which is due next week. Which means I'll have to be spending time with him. Which kind of makes me really freaking happy. I'm happy that Luke can't hold that against me.

"Why would you do this to me, Emmy?" He asks me with a shaky voice, looking down.

I instantly feel really bad for him. I know the decision I made wasn't right, but I don't want to lose Luke. It does make me a bit angry cause he doesn't want to stop hanging out with Nicki. But when Luke decides that something will be a certain way, there's no changing it.

"I had to," I sigh, still not looking at him. I just can't.

On a second thought, I don't think it's a good idea for us to be doing the assignment together. Not after everything we did. I can already see Luke flipping out. No matter how hard it is, I should stay away from Jack.

"Why?" His voice breaks. All I wanna do right now is hug him. Tell him we'll be besties forever. Tell him nothing will ever change that. But I can't. And it pains me.

"I don't wanna lose Luke. He said I don't love him if I don't stop hanging out with you."

Jack finally looks up at me, resting his hand on mine. "That's straight up bullshit Emma and you know it. That's toxic. It's fucked up! No one should ever tell you with who you can and can't hang out!" He grabs my hand and I grab his, letting out a sigh. Quickly, I realise what I'm doing and let go of his hand.