Beth•••
I smiled sunily at Lance. He grumbled under his breath before sighing and donning his signature smile. "I'm sorry Mr K. It seems that there was a mosquito on my head so princess here offered to slap it off" he turned to me his smile becoming a smirk "right princess?"
I rolled my eyes. How this guy manages to come up with this excuse is beyond me.
But I wasn't going to give him an out on this one.
"Really Lance. Right now you are stressing me out. And my stress is stressing me out to the point where I can't deal with my stress"
Everyone: ".....huh?"
I just shrugged and put on my care free face.
"Anyways" Mr Kristofferson said, drawing the attention back to him, "you'll all be doing a project"
"Urr" some students groaned.
"Ahh the joy of being a teacher" Mr Kristofferson smiled. "The project is about the ancient revolution of Rome"
"ROME?!" everyone roared.
"Yes and the best part is you'll have to dress as them for the project"
"But why?" Yasmine asked.
"Because when in Rome act as the Romans"
"That context is way outta line" Lance said.
"Anyways you'll also be working in pairs"
"Sweet" everyone agreed.
Everyone started picking partners. Seth turned to me "hey maybe me and you can be partners"
"Sure"
"Sorry hair gel but she's with me"
"In your dreams" I retorted.
"Aw princess is that code that you dream of us"
"You are mad dude" Seth said.
Lance snorted and played with a lock of my hair. "Yeah maybe I am. But she's madly in love with me. it's quite obvi"
"Everyone pay attention back to me. Your partner is the one in front of you" Mr K. said.
Yeah I'm calling him Mr K. now.
"Hell no". Seth hollered and slammed his palms on the table.
Everyone moved their eyes to the one in front of him.
None other than Doris.
"It'd be great partnering with you again B" she said.
Seth looked at Mr K. "Sir surely you can do something. I don't want to be her partner"
"Mr Rollands is anything wrong?" Mr K. asked.
"Yeah Bax what's wrong?" Doris continued.
"Am I the only one who noticed that she's calling him something different from Seth?" Lance asked.
"Thats the first sensible thing you've said all day" Seth said.
Why do I feel like he's trying to change the topic? I'll definitely follow that thread later.
"Sir I can't work with her. She's....new and it'd be hard..to..to get used to her....ways..." Seth said.
"Thats exactly why I want you partner. I've noticed that the person in front or behind you is a new person" Mr K. said.
I sighed.
"Anyways you'll be presenting it on Wednesday"Mr K. said and left the class.
"Wednesday?!" everyone yelled again.
"That's too soon" Fletcher said.
"Not my problem" Mr K. said and left the class.
Lance turned with a cheeky smile on his stupid face. "Princess I'm sorry to say this but I'm too lazy and handsome to do any projects"
"What was your first clue?" Seth asked.
"Mind your biz gel face" Lance said.
"Is there anything you can do?" I groaned out.
"Well if you must know. My secret talent is getting tired without doing anything"
I rolled my eyes. "How helpful"
"Glad to be of service, princess"
Seth stood up and rubbed my shoulders. "You know if you can't do anything, Blondie. We can just exchange partners" he glanced at Doris with disdain "after all you'd look good together"
"Oh please gel face princess here and I are the ones who look like picture perfect okay?" Lance said.
I raised an eyebrow, "really?"
"Yeah i may not be a photographer but I know we'll look good together" he scratched the back of his neck and pinked slightly.
"Aww" everyone cooed.
Okay I'm not doing this. I stood up and left the class. Mr K. had a reputation for leaving the class at least twenty minutes before time so it wasn't time for the next class yet.
"Well if it isn't the star pupil" a familiar voice said behind me.
I spun around.
Lincoln.
I ran to hug him. "Lincoln!"
"I missed you" he said ruffling my hair.
"Hey stop that" I removed his hand from my hair.
"Aww man. First Becs now you. No fair" he pouted.
His expression changed when he gave me a once over. "Wow love your make over"
"Thanks" I twirled.
"There you are. You abandoned me with gel face in there" I heard Lance say.
"Urgh" I faced him. "What is it this time Lance?"
"Hold up" Lincoln lifted his hand "you call him Lance?"
"Princess let's go for our next class" Lance swung a hand on my shoulders.
"And she let's you call her princess. Am I missing something here?"