Three days passed and Claire was not going for taekwondo classes or even reporting for class due to Duncan's little tricks to lure her into his trap. This morning, she decided not to step out of her room since she didn't want to see the annoyingly handsome face of Duncan. She was bed bound with laziness and anxiety.
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Duncan sat in class with a gloomy expression. He continued to stare at the empty seat in front of him which was Claire's seat. He wasn't even listening to what the teacher said as his mind was full of other thoughts.
'So this silly girl is trying to avoid me huh... I think I need to give her a better punishment which she'll never forget'. He thought as he glared at the innocent seat.
"Tracy, Tracy." He called Tracy who sat beside Claire's seat in a low voice. Tracy turned her head towards Duncan and arched a brow. "Where's she?" He asked pointing to Claire's seat with his chin.
"She's not coming to class today. She told me she is not feeling well." Tracy whispered and Duncan nodded before Tracy turned and focused on the studies.
Soon Mr. Hollingsworth entered interrupting the class with two new students. Everyone stood to greet him.
"Good morning students."
"Good morning principal." The whole class greeted simultaneously then Mr. Hollingsworth asked them to sit.
"Today, three new students are joining your class since your class is the least in number." He announced but everyone looked quite confused because there were only two students with him.
"Our young lady here is Alexa Scott and her brother Alexander Scott. And this gentleman... Where's he?" The last student wasn't in yet. Everyone craned their neck towards the door wondering who he was.
Soon a guy walked in nonchalantly with his left hand in his left pocket of his pants. Girls started to drool over the manly beauty of the guy with brown golden hair which was well shaved and styled and sea blue eyes. He was slender and had a well sculptured body. His longs legs complimented his height. Judging from his looks, you could tell he was a no nonsense guy.
"Oh, and he is Arthur Grey. He is a transfer student from Skyline High and also the best student." Mr. Hollingsworth introduced proudly which made everyone gasp because Skyline High at City A was known to have students with sharp brains and the rules there were very strict. "So they are learning with you guys from now onwards. Treat them as you treat each other. Thank you." Mr. Hollingsworth left and the teacher also followed since his class was over.
The madhouse was back on its feet. Most girls started hollering pleading to either Alexander or Arthur to sit beside or behind them. Duncan didn't give a shit to whatever happened ever since Mr. Hollingsworth came. His day was already gloomy since he had no one to tease.
"May I have the pleasure to sit on this empty seat?" Alexa asked Duncan pointing to the empty desk beside him.
Duncan jolted back to reality and nodded. Alexa enthusiastically sat down. Tracy just rolled her eyes at the pesky behavior of Alexa. She looked quite bored since Claire was absent.
"Uhm, excuse me." Arthur called Tracy as he stood beside Claire's seat. "Is this seat reserved for anyone?" He asked.
"Oh yeah." Tracy answered with a smile. "You can take the next one beside it. After all it's vacant." She instructed pointing to the desk beside Claire's own.
"Okay thanks. By the way I'm Arthur." He extended his hand.
"Tracy Quinn." Tracy shook his hand then Arthur took his seat. "Uhm Tracy." He called again.
"Hmm?"
"Is Claire Klein in this class?" He asked.
"Yeah, do you know her?"
"Of course. She is a friend. We met at the taekwondo school."
"Wow, then I guess she'll be really happy to see you. And you know, this is her seat." Tracy pointed to the seat between them.
"Oh okay. But where is she?"
"She is absent. She's been stressed this week and has not been to class for the past three days. Would you like to meet her after class?"
"No need... Can you do me a favor?" Arthur asked.
"Yeah."
"Could you please not inform her I've joined you guys?"
"Mm... Sure. My lips are zipped." She made the motion.
"Thanks."
As Arthur and Tracy's chat was only centered on Claire, Duncan was fuming with anger that he couldn't even hear Alexa trying to communicate with him this whole time. He abruptly stood up and took his back pack storming out of the class. Everyone was quite shocked when they saw how he stormed out.
Duncan took the lift and went to the topmost floor, where all private rooms were. He made his way down the corridor when he got off the lift.
When he reached Claire's door, he barged in without knocking and closed the door behind him. The room was quite silent with the only sound coming from the bedside. He could hear Claire's loud unladylike snores echoing in the room as she slept in a horrible sleeping posture.
Duncan sauntered towards her and slowly sat on the bed. He looked at her peaceful face then chuckled. She was like a combination of an angel and goddess in terms of her looks. He then looked down her body and later regretted it.
Claire wore an oversize white T-shirt and her sleeping posture exposed her smooth alluring thighs and legs. He gulped hard as he stared at her body. He wanted to avert his mind from the image but his body was betraying him. He felt every ounce of blood in his body rushing down to his lower part. He gripped the bedsheets as his breathing became shallow.
He unconsciously lifted his hand and caressed Claire's leg way up to her thighs. He felt heat jolting on his finger tips and body as he touched her. He so wanted to take it to the next level but his little sanity held him back from grabbing her twin peaks and taking them into his mouth to ravage them until they had turned fifty shades darker.
Claire stirred in her sleep as Duncan's hand touched her skin. He immediately retracted and tried controlling himself. He didn't want to take advantage of her whilst she was asleep. But at least he wanted to stare at her flawless beauty.
He noticed she wore a necklace around her neck and his curiosity got the best of him. He slowly unraveled the part which was in her shirt and starred at sapphire crystal which hung on it. He felt quite strange looking at the necklace but brushed it off thinking it was just an ordinary expensive necklace.
He took her delicate face in his palms then turned it towards him. When he removed his hand from her face, he felt something sticky on his palm. He checked and almost yelled.
"Geez Claire how could you?! I understand you snore and have bad sleeping posture, but crossing the limit to slobber also? Are you a baby!" He cried without tears as he continually shook his hands in attempt to get the drool off his palms.
Claire upon hearing Duncan's shout, slowly drifted out of paradise with a frown. She yawned loudly and rubbed her eyes to get accustomed to the bright light. She then wiped her face with her palm and slowly got up. She looked sideways since she heard Duncan still complaining.
"What are you doing here? Why do you always sneak into my room whilst I'm asleep?" Claire questioned. "Wait..." She checked her body for fault and sighed in relief when she saw everything was intact.
"Can you for once be a lady. At least that won't cause a damage." Duncan rebuked as he wiped his hands with a tissue.
"Huh! What do you mean by that?"
"You know what I mean. All you know to do in your miserable life is being a glutton, farting, burping loudly, sleeping, snoring and even drooling!"
"So what?" Claire asked not bothered about what Duncan said.
"Huh?"
"It's my life. I can do whatever I want with it. Why do you care if I slobber or fart or even burp? At least I don't do it in public. Only in front of my friends and you, so you find me disgusting and leave me alone once and for all."
"I'm your master, so I need to care. And I'm never leaving you alone so you need to put a stop to it." He scolded.
"I can't help it though." Claire shrugged as she dragged her body from the bed. "I'm going to shower so please leave."
"No I won't." Duncan refused as he dropped his body on the soft bed.
Claire rolled her eyes then opened her closet to remove some clothes before turning towards the bathroom.
"Don't peek." She warned.
"Then lock it from inside." Duncan suggested with a smile on his face.
Claire entered and indeed locked the door from inside. After about thirty minutes, she came out fully dressed in an over sized Minnie mouse top and cream coloured oversized sweatpants which was able to even fully cover the sole of her feet. Her black and purple hair was still wet as water dripped from it and trickled down her face to her neck then vanished into her top. Her skin was flushed due to the hot bath.
Duncan's hot gaze was locked on her body. He scanned her with his eyes from head to toe admiring her natural beauty but was quite displeased seeing her wearing clothes which fully covered her.
"Enough staring." Claire snapped her finger at Duncan's face.
"How can I have enough of your alluring body. I might go crazy one day just by staring at you and cross the limit." He said in a daze.
"Who cares?" Claire sneered then walked over to the cupboard and removed a pack of instant noodles.
She opened it and added all ingredients then added hot water. After that she stirred it to mix completely then sat in the sofa folding her legs on it and enjoyed her noodles.
Duncan watched her in annoyance. He wondered how she was able to keep her shape intact even after eating all those unhealthy foods. He walked towards her but his eyes fell on the stretcher which still had a drawing board mounted on it.
He changed his route and went to the board. He could only see the back of the board so he went to stand in front. When he saw the current painting his eyes widened and jaws dropped.
Claire enjoyed her noodles not bothering about what Duncan was doing. Suddenly, she felt Duncan grab her hair from behind making her yelp in pain.
"Ouch... What are you doing Duncan?! Let go off my hair!" Claire insisted as she held Duncan's wrist with her free hand with the other hand holding the noodle. She continued struggling under Duncan's grasp whilst Duncan was not even ready to let go.
"Let go Duncan! It hurts!... What is wrong with you?"
"You created this part of me." Duncan said in a low husky voice. He brushed his lips on Claire's ear making her feel the heat of his breath.
"W-what do you mean?"
"Chuckle... You portrayed me as the devil in your painting. You are the angel right? Why don't you fight back?"
"I'll roast you DD." Claire gritted her teeth as forcefully yanked Duncan's hand off her hair.
She put the noodle on the table and turned towards Duncan. She jumped into the sofa making her height to be the same with Duncan. The two glared at each other as their little war was about to begin.
Claire hopped onto Duncan wrapping her legs around his waist. She grabbed his hair and started pulling on them. Duncan too grabbed Claire's cheeks pulling them hard. He wobbled around in the room still having Claire clung unto him like a koala as they both threw curses at each other. He tripped at the foot of the bed making him fall on it with Claire straddling him. She continued to pull his hair as he also pinched her cheeks.
"I'll make you bald today you rotten dragon egg that you won't even have the heart to flirt with girls!"
"And I'll make sure to disfigure that pretty face of yours that boys will start running away rather than chasing after you!"
"You big fat pig. I'll split your head into two!"
"I'll also really enjoy splitting your face apart little fly!"
"You called me a fly?!" Claire exclaimed putting more pressure on Duncan's head as they remained in the same position on the bed.
"No! I called you a 'little' fly. After all you also called me a big fat pig and a rotten dragon egg. You think I wouldn't also react?"
"Idiot!"
"You dare to attack your master. I'll make sure you pay for it little fly!"
"I don't care about your stupid contract!"
"You've got to!"
The two continued to fight with none of them having the heart to raise his or her white flag.
"Fine fine, I give up!" Claire accepted defeat since her face hurt and it was really red.
"Then promise you'll never make a painting of me portraying me as a devil." Duncan demanded still pinching Claire's cheeks.
"Okay okay." She patted his hands.
"Promise?"
"Yeah I promise."
"Good pet." Duncan said as he released Claire's red cheeks and caressed them.
He dropped his hands above Claire's hips since she still straddled him and slowly sat on the bed making Claire slip down onto his laps. The two panted as a result of their fight. They looked into each others eyes with unreadable expression as Claire had her arms around Duncan's neck and Duncan had his hands on Claire's hips.
"What the f is going on here..."