Chapter 47: Chapter 47

I quickly broke the eye contact and looked away proceeding to take out my pencils.

" So you are using water colour ?", he asked.

" No..I don't think water colour would w..work well with eyes. I'm using C..colour pencils.", I replied taking out four skin tone pencils, a black and brown pencil from my pouch.

" oh..I tried using colour pencils last year. But it didn't work well with me. I couldn't do the shading and mixing properly. Also the pencil quality was low. At last I gave up.", he sighed looking at the pencils in my hand. " Hmm..maybe I'll use oil paint. But will I be able to wonderfully copy down your Gorgeous blue eyes with oil paint ? I'm not sure."

My heart skipped a beat at that. He had told me last day that my eyes are Gorgeous. He's again saying. Is he flirting with me ?

" What's wrong ?", he asked as I fiddled with the pencils in my hand.

" Ahmm..mine is Faber Castel Poly..c..chromos pencils. It's q..quality is good. Maybe you buy it and try.", I said.

He smiled. " No matter whichever paint I use and how hard I try, I won't be able to draw your beautiful baby blue eyes as beautifully as they are.", he said.

" E..Ethan, stop s..saying such things.", I chided.

He grinned looking at my probably flustered face. "I just said some fact. Okay, let's just start."

I quickly clipped a drawing paper horizontally on my easel and picked the light shade graphite pencil to draw the outline of his eyes and eyebrows. I started with the curve of the eyes without actually looking at him. But I could feel his eyes literally boring a hole into my face. He was staring intently at me but I didn't look up from the canvas. I was feeling kinda nervous.

Even after a minute as I didn't look up at him, he opened his mouth. " Why are you drawing without looking at me ? You can't just draw any eyes. The eyes should look like me."

" It will l..look like you.", I replied without looking up. He didn't reply anything but crossed his hands. After I finished the outline of the eyes, I had to look up to have a look at his eyebrows. His eyebrows are thick compared to that of Alex's.

And when I looked up, Ethan was smiling like an idiot looking at me. My heart instantly started pounding hard. He suddenly pressed his lips back together, a bit shocked. I raised my gaze higher and took a quick look at his thick eyebrows which are arched upward towards the end, giving him a slight intimidating look. Then I hastily looked back at my canvas, still my heart thudding like crazy.

I had to look up a few more times to finish with the outline of the eyebrows and the whole time, he was staring intently at me making me really nervous to the point where my hands were shivering.

" Ahmm..I- I finished outline. Now I'm gonna colour. You can l..look away.", I said.

" Colour looking at me. It must really look like my eyes and eyebrows.", he said.

" I can d..do it without looking at you.", I said and tilted my easel and chair towards the left so that I don't need to look at him.

" Why ? Am I making you nervous ?", he asked in a whisper.

" N..no ! I j..just don't want you to s..stare at me like that ! ", I muttered back.

He chuckled. " So what will you do when I have to draw your eyes and nose and lips and all ? I will have to stare at you a lot."

" You aren't s..staring at me ! " I tilted my face to him feeling angry but also nervous. " You said you decided to move on. Th..then why are you behaving like this ?"

" What did I do ?", he asked, his mouth dropped open.

" Stop s..staring at me ! ", I scoffed.

" Okay..Cool ! ", he said and averted his gaze.

" And you aren't drawing my f..facial features, looking at me. I'll g..give you a photo of mine. You look at it and draw.", I said.

" That's not clearly what Miss Anderson said. So Nate, I'm coming to your dorm to draw your picture."

I looked at him furiously for a moment. He stared back into my eyes. Now I don't believe he meant it when he said he decided to move on. What shall I do now ? How will I escape out of this situation ? I can't even ask for a partner change as everyone has started drawing.

" I regret l..letting you be my partner.", I sneered at him. He chuckled at me.

" Why are you acting like this ? I already told you I'm not g..gay and I'm not interested in you. And Y...you said you understood the things. "

" Hey..hey..Nate, why are you simply getting angry ? What actually happened now ? I just want to do my project normally like everyone else and get a good grade. I won't be able to draw your features properly looking at a photo."

" But you.."

" Hey ! At the back..! Why are you guys talking instead of drawing ?", Miss Anderson shouted, cutting me off.

" Nothing Ma'am. I was saying he got Gorgeous blue eyes. Then he was saying my brown eyes are more beautiful and manly.."

" Shut up ! ", I sneered at Ethan in anger. How dare he say that loudly in front of the whole class ?

I heard murmurs around us and then as I looked in front, Miss Anderson was smiling at us. "Enough complimenting each other. Do the work."

I nodded in embarrassment and quickly took my black colouring pencils, starting to draw Ethan's eyebrows. Heck ! What to do with this Ethan !

I kept colouring without looking up. I was too slow today. My hands were literally shaking knowing he was still staring at me.

I had to look up a few times again to colour his pupils. And then he would stare deep into my soul and make my heart knock hard against my ribs. I don't even know why I can't stay calm and confident. Why am I getting nervous ? Ethan isn't going to kill me with his eyes or anything. Then why this stupid heart beating so fast ?

Anyway I finished the drawing just before the bell rang. " Finished ?", Ethan asked as I placed my pencil down and unclipped the paper from the easel. I nodded and opened my binder, proceeding to place the drawing inside. " Show me ! ", he squealed excitedly.

" There's no need for you to s..see it.", I said.

" C'mon..it's my eyes. Show me.", he almost whined. I sighed and stretched the paper to him, not wanting more attention from Miss Anderson and others.

" Woah ! My eyes and eyebrows are this beautiful ! ", his mouth formed an ' O' while his eyes were literally the size of a soccer.

" Enough self praising. G..Give it back ! ", I said.

" No..I was praising you. You are a great artist Michael ! ", he said.

He called me Michael !

My heart skipped a beat at that. But Ethan soon corrected himself. " I mean Nate. Sorry.", he said.

" Ahmm...I- I don't actually mind you calling me Michael.", I said.

" But I mind it. I'll call you Nate itself.", he said and looked back at the drawing. His lips curved into a smile as he grazed his fingers over it. He sat there for one or two minutes looking at the drawing and then picked his phone and clicked a few photos of it.

" You wonderfully drew my eyes ! Thanks.", he finally said giving the drawing back to me.

" Ahmm...thanks..w..welcome. Ethan, I've a request.", I said taking the drawing whilst avoiding eye contact.

" What is it ?", he asked.

" Can you please not come to my d..dorm today ? I've a physics test tomorrow. I need to s..study.", I said placing the drawing inside my binder. I really had a class test tomorrow.

" Okay. But I'll come day after tomorrow.", he replied. I nodded biting down on my lips.

There's no way escaping from Ethan. Now I need to work with him for three weeks on this assignment. And next week it is lips ! Ahh ! I can't even imagine.

And then we have to work on history assignment whole year. How am I gonna handle it ?

The bell then rang. I immediately shot up from my seat and rushed out of the class grabbing my binder and other stuff.

God ! When can I finally stop running ?