Chapter 91: Chapter 91

Wednesday evening as I walk out of the class, I receive a message from Ethan asking me to come to the Basketball court. He and Grace might be there watching Gavin's practice. And probably we are going out to some cafe to have something after that.

There's a basketball match coming two weeks later. So the basketballers are practicing zealously, skipping the last hour everyday.

Soon I reach the court and as expected, Ethan and Grace are sitting on the side steps. I walk to them and slump down beside Grace. Cause why deviating the attention of these basketballers from their game by sitting beside Ethan ?

By now the dating rumour has spread across the whole school and everywhere I go, I receive stares and whispers. Now I've almost come to a state where I don't even bother to listen what they are whispering about me.

" You look tired. ", Ethan says bending forward and looking at me.

" Last period was so boring. Inorganic chemistry. I don't l..like it.", I reply sighing.

The basketball coach then clap his hands announcing the end to the practice. Soon the guys all comes walking towards the steps to take their bags and bottles. A few of the guys eye us as they pass our way.

"Please someone give me some water", Gavin groans, walking towards us tiredly. I have water in my bag but I don't bother to take it out cause it's Grace's chance to give him her water bottle.

But she tilts her head and looks at me. " Nate, do you have water ? Mine is finished."

" Yeah..", I say and fish out my water bottle, stretching it to Gavin, who hastily take it from my hands.

" Oh my God ! ", Ethan then gasps and I tilt my head to him, confused. "You don't drink water at all ? Why is your water bottle full ?"

" I drank from Canteen.", I reply shrugging. It was for this he gasped so dramatically?

Ethan then starts lecturing me about urinary infection and various other diseases that would cause due to not drinking enough water. I wonder what the hell is wrong with him ? I told him I drank from canteen. Why he has to act so caring like my mom now ? That too in front of Gavin and Grace.

Gavin laughs handing the empty bottle back to me. " See, I drank the whole bottle in one go.", he says.

" Okay great job. Can we go eat s..something now ? I'm hungry.", I say and stand up from the steps, throwing the bottle back in my bag.

" Yeah..let's go.", Ethan says and shoots up, smiling at me.

" What ?", I mouth at him " Why are you simply smiling ?"

" Hungry baby.", he whispers and smiles a bit more widely. I just shake my head and starts to walk.

It's 5:30 PM when we reach back at dorm after having cheese burger and milkshake from McDonald's. Now that Ethan brought his car, we can easily go out to have something after class. And we went out the last two days.

"Ethan, let's learn c..calculus today.", I say as Ethan plop down on the bed as soon as we step into our room.

" Okay, let me rest for sometime.", he says.

" I'll go and take a shower then.", I reply and grab my towel from the chair before walking to the cupboard to take my clothes.

" Let's shower together ?", he asks sitting up. I know he is just kidding. So I don't reply anything and rummage in my cupboard for a pair of clothes.

" Why are you taking clothes and all to the bathroom? Just go with that towel.", he then says. I just pretend like I didn't hear anything.

He only takes a towel to bathroom. Today morning when I woke up, I was greeted with the sight of him coming out of the bathroom with a short towel wrapped dangerously low around his waist, his tanned chest and abs adored with tiny droplets of water. I immediately closed my eyes tight and pretended sleeping. I was afraid he would come to me with that naked wet body if he realize I'm awake. Then I don't know what will happen. So I continued pretending asleep until he got fully clothed.

But I don't honestly know why he wants to see me in a towel. There's actually nothing nice to see. His is a perfectly sculpted Greek God body while I'm simply a potato. No potato won't suit me. I'm better a lady's finger or something.

As I close the cupboard and walk towards the bathroom with my clothes, Ethan stands up from the bed and follows me behind. " What ?", I turn and ask as I reach the bathroom door.

" Let's shower together.", he gives me a smug smile and starts unbuttoning his shirt.

" You showered m..morning ! ", I say.

" So what ? Is there any rule that a person can't shower two times a day ?", he asks quirking his eyebrows at me.

How the hell do I escape out of this one ? Is he being serious or just playing around ?

" Wait ! ", I say as he unbuttons the third button of his shirt.

" What ? ", he raises an eyebrow which I may say, seductively.

“Okay..", I nod.

" Okay what ?", he asks confused.

" Okay let's sh..shower together.", I say.

" What ! ", he asks taken aback. So he was just teasing me.

" Yeah..where's your towel ? G..go bring it.", I say. He looks at me confusedly for a few more seconds and I keep my expression serious. So he finally turns around in a daze and goes to pick his towel wrapped around the back of a chair.

Taking the chance, I immediately get into the bathroom and shuts the door behind, letting out a sigh. I hear him groan my name but I just giggle and then step into the shower after stripping out of my clothes.

I feel a bit nervous to open the door and step out once I finish showering and change into fresh clothes. What if Ethan has decided to punish me for pranking him ? His punishment means kissing me all over the body. I don't want it although I kind of enjoy it.

Anyway I quietly open the door and step out. Ethan is there, again lying on our bed. He has changed into a new Shirt and shorts. Soon he sit up on hearing my footsteps.

" Prince Charming looks more charming after the bath.", he comments. Thank God ! He isn't mad about the prank.

I go and discard my clothes in my laundry bucket to wash later.

" Hey ! Your hair is dripping wet ! ", Ethan squeals as I turn around. " Why didn't you dry it properly ?", he asks and barges towards me with his towel. Then he pushes me to Gavin's bed and starts drying my hair with his towel, standing in front of me.

" You are such a self neglecting little thing. Won't drink water. Won't dry hair properly...", he complains as he thoroughly dries my hair.

Once he is satisfied, he runs his fingers through my hair and smiles at me. " Your hair is so soft. "

" Uhm..thanks.", I reply.

" Your lips are also so soft.", he says and suddenly bends down pecking my lips. He pulls away and pecks me two more times, afterwards smiling at me.

" C'mon..l..let's study.", I say placing my palm on his lips as he leans forward again to kiss me.

"Hmm..okay.", he says against my palm. Then he suddenly picks me up from the bed and I immediately wrap my hands and legs around him, not wanting to fall.

" Don't I have legs ?", I ask him as he walks with me to the desk chair.

" Yeah..but I like carrying my baby.", he says and places me down on the chair. He sits down, dragging the other chair closer to me and simply smiles at me.

" Let's study. Where's you b..book ?", I ask.

" Here..", he points at the table. To my surprise, he has already arranged his Calculus textbook on the table along with a rough note book and pen.

" Okay, let's start with the first chapter continuity and differentiability.", I say and grab the book, opening it to first chapter.

Within two minutes itself, I realize Ethan is so bad at Maths. He don't even know properly about inverse trigonometric functions. Then how am I gonna teach him derivatives of the functions ?

At last I end up going behind in last year's portions and teaching him about trigonometric functions from the beginning. And I come to the realization that he isn't actually stupid like I thought. He isn’t that bad at maths. He is quickly grasping the things I explain to him and is doing problems kinda fast. I guess he just didn't have the motivation to listen to his maths teachers and then work on this actually useless problems.

Within an hour, I'm able to finally enter into our actual portions. I explain him the first portion from the chapter and soon we starts doing the exercises in the back of our text together. And he places a deal. His usual one. If he gets an answer right, he gets to kiss me.

" Then what if you get an a..answer wrong ? You need to get punishment along with r..reward, right ?", I ask.

" You can kiss me as punishment.", he says.

" Is that a punishment ? P..punishment should be something you don't like. ", I say.

" So you don't like my kisses ?", he asks quirking his eyebrows at me.

" Ahm...d..did I ever tell you to punish me by k..kissing ?", I ask. " I'll pinch you if you g..get an answer wrong, got it ? "

" Pinch ??", he dramatically opens his mouth wide.

" Yeah..and you can also pinch me if I g..get an answer wrong. Now let's start.", I say and points at the first question on exercise 1.1.

Ethan gets the first answer right. But he doesn't kiss me and just goes to solve the second question, making me confused. Again we gets the second one correct but no kiss.

" So..you..uhm..decided you don't want reward or p..punishment ?", I ask when he solves the third question right.

He tilts his head and smirks at me. " I'm just gathering my rewards together."

" Oh..", I nod. Shit ! He already earned three kisses. How much more will he earn ?

After an hour or so, Ethan has earned 13 reward points and 4 punishment points. And for the first time, we both get an answer wrong. Now I've earned myself a pinch from him. He tilts his head and smirks at me. Maybe because of that smirk, I get my next answer again wrong, while he solve it right.

" Okay, let's stop and start with the rewards and punishments.", Ethan announces happily.

"N..no...we have only studied for a little more than t..two hours. ", I say.

" You know this is the first time I'm sitting and studying maths for this long. Now enough. I'll honestly go crazy if I do one more problem.", he says and gets up from his chair, grabbing my hands and pulling me up.

Without giving me any time to respond, he drags me to the bed and almost pushes me down. " Wait ! No tongue ! ", I say as he hovers on top of me.

He chuckles at me. " Do you want your punishment first or shall I take my reward first ?", he asks.

Okay let's get over with the two pinches first.

" Punishment. ", I say.

He smiles at me. " I wanna pinch your cheeks."

Oh..so he won't hurt me. He will only gently pinch my cheeks. He is actually kinda sweet. But I'm gonna pinch in his arm, hard.

" Okay..", I nod to him.

" Turn around then.", he says.

" Uhm..why ?", I ask confused.

" Not this cheeks.", he says caressing my cheeks with his one hand. " This cheeks.", he touches below my waist and slides his hand under my ass.

" What ! ", I gasp wide eyed. Before I can say anything more, he falls with his weight on top of me and flip us over, exchanging positions.