Chapter 94: Chapter 94

Suddenly Ethan turns left and starts running with me through the corridors leading to sports teachers' cabin. The corridor is fully empty and suddenly he pushes open a door and pulls me inside, quickly closing the door and leaning against it, as it doesn't have a lock.

I soon realize it's the sports store room. Lot of footballs, basketballs, nets, badminton rackets and a lot more items are lying around.

"Tell me..", Ethan pants out.

I move closer to him and stays looking at him whilst taking a few deep breaths, trying to lower my heart beat from the little running we did just now. He looks at me impatiently.

Finally I closes the distance completely and places my arm on the door. This position is actually a contrary to our usual ones as It's him who always pins me against the wall.

" How you got that fucking love card ? Why you put it in your pocket ? ", he asks me.

"Okay, listen..today morning I got a ch...chocolate box under my usual table. It had this card. Then people came running for the chocolate and the c..card fell out in the push and pull. Then Mrs Kelly w..walked in and I quickly placed it in my pocket. Then forgot to th..throw it away. Don't know who left the chocolate box.", I explain to him.

He is silent for a few seconds. " If it's a girl, will you leave me for her ?", then he asks me, looking in my eyes.

" No..", I shake my head. He looks at me expectantly to hear something.

" I like you so much Ethan.", I say, our noses are almost touching. His lips slowly curl into a gorgeous smile.

" I love you.", he replies, his breathe fan against my lips. Then he pulls me closer and rest his forehead on mine. " I'm sorry.", he mutters. " Why didn't you tell me about this earlier ?"

" About the ch..chocolate box ?", I ask. He nods against my forehead. " I didn't want to upset you. But I was th..thinking to tell you later at dorm.", I reply.

" Did you eat the chocolate?", he then asks. I couldn't help but chuckle.

" If I ate, you won't kiss me again ?", I ask. He presses his lips on mine in reply. " Did you ?", he asks against my lips.

" No..", I feed into his mouth as he kisses me passionately. Our lips move against each other in sync untill we both starts to run out of breathe.

He then pulls away and pushes me to the door, exchanging positions. His lips once again crashes on mine before moving to my chin. " Who is trying to snatch you away from me ? ", he asks trailing kisses on my jawline and down my neck.

" Don't know..", I moan as he kisses and sucks on my neck. " They aren't s..snatching me..."

" Shall I mark you mine ?", he asks sucking hard on my skin.

" Don't...! ", I gasp and his lips instantly stops working on my neck. "not there..", I then say, lowly. Without waiting a second, he trails his lips down while his one hand unbuttons the first button of my shirt. " Here ?", he asks rolling his moist tongue just below my collar bone. I nod to him moaning as he already starts biting and sucking.

He finally pulls away smiling satisfied at the art work he created on my skin. He grazes his fingers over it and admires it while I look at his bright face and wide spread lips. Now he has marked me his. Can I ever unmark myself ?

" We've lab this hour, hmm ?", he asks, finally buttoning up my shirt and securing his masterpiece to see only for himself.

" Yeah..let's go. We are already t..ten minutes late.", I say and push him away, opening the door. Thank fully there's no one in the corridor and we quickly walk out of the room, hurrying in direction of the labs.

Both Mrs Allen and Mr Robert are in the chemistry and Physics lab when we reach there. And they are already teaching, as it's almost ten minutes since the bell rang.

" May..may I come in ?", I pant out standing at the doors of chemistry lab and Mrs Allen averts her eyes to me, stopping her lecture. I can already hear Mr Robert scolding Ethan in the opposite Physics lab for coming late. So I also mentally prepare myself for the scolding.

However Mrs Allen doesn't look angry. " Why are you late today Michael ?", she asks me gently.

Oh so she knows my name and all ?? Maybe because I'm the only one who got full Marks in the last chemistry test.

" I had to g..go to the locker room and then lost my k..key somewhere. So I was searching.", I reply. It's not an excuse that I made up now. Ethan told me to tell this while we were running to here.

" Oh..you got it ?", She asks and I nod. " Okay, come in.", she motions to me and I quickly go and occupy a place in the front near where Andrea is standing.

Thank fully Mrs Allen was rewinding the experiments we did in last class and started explaining about today’s experiment, only after two more minute.

Andrea is again my partner today and we are finishing all the experiments pretty fast. While we are on our last titration, Mrs Allen suddenly calls my name. I look up to see her standing at the doors with two girls near her.

" Michael, come here. They need to talk to you.", Mrs Allen calls. I places the beaker down and walk towards the door, clueless. Mrs Allen smiles at me and goes back to her desk as I reach them.

" Can we talk in the corridor?", the tall lean girl with specs asks me. I nod to her confused and step out of the class with them. What does they want to talk to me ?

" Hi Nate..", the other girl with straight blond hair and light brown eyes says smiling. I feel nervous. Is one of these girls the one who placed that chocolate box under my desk ?

I involuntarily tilt my head to look in direction of the physics lab and sure enough, someone is peeking out through the doors, holding a tuning fork in his right hand and tapping it against his left palm, his eyebrows scrunched together. How he noticed me at the corridors so soon ??

" Hey..Nate..", the girl says and I quickly turn my face.

" Hi..uhm..what do you want to t..talk to me ?", I ask.

" We are actually here for a help from you. My name is Violet and she is.."

" Riley..", the other girl says smiling.

" Okay...uhm..what help ?", I ask.

" For an assignment...", Violet commence. "Actually...we both have took visual arts as our elective subject and we now got the important assignment of the year. To shoot an ad. We are thinking to make an ad for our own product, home made Ice-cream actually. Nate, will you feature in our ad, please ??"

" Wh..what !?", I asked totally surprised. Me in an ad ??

" Please don't say no. It will take only an hour or two.", Riley says making a pleading face.

" You..you guys didn't get anyone else ?", I ask and quickly glance at the doors of Physics lab. Ethan is still standing near there, side eying us.

" We got a girl. Now we need a boy. And you are perfect. Can you spare an hour for us on this Saturday ?", Violet asks.

" No..it won't work. I don't have any e..experience in these things. ", I shake my head. How am I supposed to feature in an ad with my stutter ? Are these girls crazy ?

" You don't need any experience. You just need to have our Ice-cream at the nearby park among a few kids. And we will shoot it. That's all. Please agree...", Riley coaxes

" But I.."

Violet cuts me off before I can say anything. " Okay do one thing. You think about it and tell us today night or tomorrow. Just give us your number.", she says and fishes out her phone from her pocket.

Should I give them my number ? What if one of them actually likes me and this whole ad thing is just a way to spend time with me or something??

" Nate, number please..", Riley asks.

" Ahm...67******** ", I say hesitantly and Violet quickly takes down my number on her phone. I glance again in Ethan's direction and now he is directly looking at us, eyebrows a bit more furrowed.

" Okay we will call you. We really hope you will say 'Yes'. This is actually very simple Nate. And the best ads will be posted on our school's website and social media. This is a chance to become popular.", Riley says smiling brightly.

I don't want popularity. But I think I'm already so popular in school by now.

" Okay I'll think about it.", I nod. I want to go back inside the lab as soon as possible. Cause Ethan is staring at us really suspiciously. I can't handle him getting angry and upset once again.

As soon as the girls nod to me, I turn around and walk back inside the lab, joining Andrea in recording the results from our titration.

" Who were those girls ?", Ethan asks me as soon as I walk out of the lab after the bell rings. He was waiting for me at the doors.

" Journalism students. They want me to f..feature in their ad, their new assignment.", I reply.

" Oh..", He hums, letting out a sigh. " So what you said ? You agreed ? What is their ad about ?"

" It's Ice-cream. And I didn't agree. They got my n..number and all. But I'm not doing it.", I say

" Oh..Ice-cream ?? That would be cute. Why don't you do it ?", he asks me, voice sounding genuine.

Woah ! I thought he would be happy that I'm not doing it. And why isn't he suspecting one of these girls would be the person who wrote me ‘I love you’ ?

" Did someone also approached you for an ad ?", I ask.

" Yeah..yesterday two people and today three.", he replies nonchalantly. " Three of them were for body sprays, one was a shampoo and I didn't even bother to listen to the others.", he replies.

" Why ? ", I asks tilting my face to him.

" Cause you know, they all want to shoot me half naked, only in a towel.", he replies.

" Oh..", I hum and look away, already feeling my cheeks heat up thinking about him in towel.

" But I think you should do this Ice-cream ad ? It would be fun.", he says and ruffles my hair, smiling at me fondly

" I should ??", I ask.

" Yeah..", he nods.

" What if one of those girls or my p..partner in the ad try to seduce me ?", I ask.

" Oh..! Then I also will come to watch your ad shooting.", he replies, voice serious. I couldn't help but chuckle at him.

" You know Ethan, you are g..getting punished today.", I say as we walks out of the main hallway.

" punished ?? For what ? Oh..! Yesterday's four pinches ?", he asks.

" Not only that. You told me, you will l..listen to Mr Hibbert's class today. But you didn't. And you...p..proved to me that you d..don't trust me.", I say, the last part carefully.

He look at me guilty. " I'm sorry Michael. I trust you...but I...at that moment I...", he stammers in lose of words. "Okay, I promise, I won't act stupid again. You can give me any punishment."

" You are doing twenty push ups with me on your back.", I reply, tilting my head to see his expression. His lips slowly curl upward and then he brushes his hands through his dark brown locks, nodding to me. Then he grabs my hands and starts running excitedly in direction of our dorm.