Editing The Sky

Chapter 4

"Today is going to be simple your all going to write a plan for a timeline on Civil War then team up with a partner to make a large colorful one, next class." Everyone groan or at least most. The nerds grinned and River just hid, staying quiet.

She hated group work, she didn't have any friends at all and she liked it that way. So when partner work came she usually worked by herself.

River pulled out a piece of scratch paper and drew out a simple time line and was done in minutes as the rest of the class was. They still had half an hour of class left which left River to doing nothing.

River put her elbow on her desk and her chin on her elbow and started out the window getting lost in thought.

It wasn't long before someone was pocking her arm. She glanced at short nerdy boy. He was adorable in a way with his baby blues and his bright flame orange hair.

"Will you be my partner for next class?" he asked timidly and River sighed. She didn't want to be mean to the poor kid.

"Sure--" she was cut off by a deep rusty voice.

"No she can't." River looked up and up and up. And when she finally met melted chocolate brown eyes she squeaked and ducked her head again.

"W-why?" asked the ginger next to her.

"Because she is my partner," He granted and Ricer gasped in surprise but didn't look up. "Now buzz of Ginger." he snapped and the kid took off.

A lead weight settled in River's stomach when she realized she was left alone with Darius. River kept silent as he sat next to her.

She heard the squeak of the chair as it accepted his muscular body. It wasn't a surprise he weighed so much. With all those muscles and the fact the muscles weighed more than fat.

Heat flooded River's body with the thought of all Darius' muscles. She's had a sudden thought of his dark skin rubbing her pale skin, their bodies rubbing together perfectly. His dark muscular body holding her down as he settled his heavy weight on her and it wasn't unpleasant, it was good.

River jerked when her hood was pulled off roughly. She gasped and yanked it on as her cheeks flooded with color.

"What are you doing?" she snapped. River looked him dead in the eye to pissed off to remember she didn't want him knowing who she was.

"You’re the girl I saved last night aren't you?" he said. His words were clipped but not in an angry way but in an I-want-my-answer-now way. River thought about lying and she knew she could get away with it if she really wanted to but decided against it. She really needed to thank him.

"Yeah." She said softly. She looked into his gentle eyes. "I'm Jane." River smiled a little as the sarcasm slipped out.

"So I was right on your name." River let out a little laugh but cut it off fast. She didn't want him thinking she was flirting with him.

"Not even close." she said and he smiled, his plush lips pulling away from his extremely white teeth showing them off. Maybe it was his dark skin that made then so white but River ducked her head and didn't smile back.

Her teeth weren't bad but not good either. They were straight enough and whitish... in other words not as white as his.

"Then what is your name?" he asked pulling at her hood again. River smacked his hand away and he chuckled a deep throaty sound.

River shivered, blushing. She had looked up at his chocolate eyes again before she realized she was looking. She ducked her head.

"Well it defiantly not Jane." she said.

"Jane's not a bad name." he said and she smiled under her hood.

"True but it's not mine." she said trying not to laugh.

"Which is?" he asked again.

"Oh you want to know my name?" she asked. River was flirting even if she didn't mean to or really want to.

"It would be nice." he said laughing. I looked up at him. "I'm Darius Zane." he said with a smile and River's smile died.

"I know."

"You do?" he said

"You're not exactly unknown." She said and the bell rang. River put her stuff away. "And we've been in the same classes for the past 10 years." she said calmly.

"Oh I didn't know." she shrugged as if it meant nothing but it did sting... a little. She got up and left. She didn't realize for some time that he was following her. She jerked away when she felt his hand on her shoulder. She knew it was Darius from the heat and massive size of his hand. She whipped around her hood falling.

"What the hell are you doing?" She snapped at him.