Chapter 16

"Ugh! I hate maths," I groan, grabbing my hair in frustration. Aiden looks at me with a blank face, no surprise there, but I could tell he was amused by all this. I glare at him, "it's not funny."

"I never said it was," he states, writing down another question related to integration, "Now hurry up and solve this."

I glare at him as I grab my pencil, looking down at the equation, "What the fuck is this shit? Why can't X go find its own Y?"

Aiden sighs as I glare holes into the paper, "Here," he sighs snatching the pencil from my hand, "Let me explain this one more time."

I try to focus on the working but my eyes betray me by glancing at his perfect face. He's explaining something but no words are heard as I stare at his lips. Suddenly his lips stop moving, and he looks up and glares at me, "You know if you stop staring at me you might actually get it."

I quickly look away, my cheeks burning bright red in embarrassment, "There was something on your face, I'm not interested in looking at some ugly ass face anyway," I retort lamely.

Seriously? That's the best you've got E? Gosh that was lame as heck.

Aiden snaps his fingers in front me, "if you're done talking to yourself then can we get back to studying? I have somewhere to be."

I roll my eyes, "It's not like I'm dying to spend time with you, hurry up so I can go, I'd rather be anywhere but here."

Aiden sighs again deeply and looks at me. "Look I know it can be hard at first but once you understand the working, it'll get very easy."

I groan and tell him to explain the steps again.

This time around, he explained the question in a different way and I won't ever admit it in front of him but it actually made the question look much simpler.

"So the answer is 2." he says dropping the pencil and I give him a nod trying to grasp all the explanation.

"Alright Aiden, give me the best you've got." I say with a confident smile.

He grabs the paper and writes down a complex equation, "Quickly do this so I can go."

Maybe I should do this wrong on purpose so he'd have to stay extra longer

What if he actually is a busy person?

Ehh, so what?

Shhh not another word-

"Evelyn?" I look up to see him staring down at me, I raise an eyebrow, "Are you done daydreaming?"

I feel my ears burn, because I was indeed daydreaming, "Pffft, I wasn't?" I say playing it cool and grab my calculator doing the equation.

Five minutes later, I hand him the paper with a confident grin. His eyes skim through it, he looks up and gives me a nod of approval.

"Finally," he says handing me back the paper, "I can go now." He grabs his phone, gets up and leaves.

I sigh, "Well that's that." I get up from the chair and pack up my belongings. Quickly grabbing my phone and my bag I run out of the library to my car. Looking at the time I groan, grabbing my uniform from the boot.

You're about to be late!

shhh

I turn on the ignition and drive to Target, hopefully, Aiden won't be working today, I wonder why he works at two different places anyway.

Thankfully Aiden wasn't at work today so it was peaceful.

You know you missed him being an ass.

You're funny

Why would I possibly care? He's so obnoxious and stone faced and I don't know how but calm. Like no matter how much I try annoying him, he won't budge. He's good at keeping his composure I'd give him that, but it's so annoying because I want to get on his nerves just as he gets on mine.

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I finally fall on my bed after 4 long hours of work and not too long after that I realise I'm starving. I pick up my phone and text Luke;

ME: Lukey please get me something to eat :))

He immediately replies with a 'sure thing' and 10 minutes later I hear a knock on my door and Luke walks in with a tray of delicious food prepared by Georgie.

He sets the tray down on my bed, takes his plate and starts scarfing it down.

"Oh right, we have to call them," Luke says putting his plate down and grabs my laptop from the sidetable turning it on videocalling everyone.

The call connects and all we hear is three different screeches making both of us wince.

Once the screeching softens down, I put my spoon down and look at them,"Sally, Matt, Ricky was that an audition for? A bat talent show?"

Luke snickers and I get three eye rolls as a response.

"Oh please, we just missed you" Ricky says matter-of-factly.

"How are you doing E?" Matt asks.

"Im ver-"

"Hey what about me?" Luke interrupts.

Ricky, Sally and I chuckle.

"Who's the toad Eve?" Matt says with a blank face.

I burst out laughing with the rest of them and Luke starts whining muttering something about Matt being a cockroach.

We talk for the next 3 hours before we realise all of us have to wake up early. Everyone says their goodbyes and Luke takes the tray and walks out of the room not before throwing a goodnight.

I lay on my back and stare at the ceiling.

I missed my friends.

I missed the park we hung out at.

I missed Sally. A lot. She was always the mature one, calm, comforting and I told her everything I couldn't tell anyone. I miss her hugs.

My eyes start to feel heavy as I stare at the ceiling thinking about everyone back in L.A.

The last thought I have before I give in and sleep is,

God just no nightmares today, please.

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