[Flashback continues]
Barry turned his head to the side and his gaze locked with mine once more. He smirked "I just found a seat"
Shit.
I bit my lip, paying attention to the way he took long, slow strides towards my seat and sat beside me, his natural, pleasing scent mixed with his cologne filling my nostrils.
I turned my gaze to the front and pretended to listen attentively to the teacher, just to avoid eye contact with Barry.
There was silence between us for almost five minutes straight before he broke the uncomfortable silence with his deep voice that makes girls scream in happiness.
"Hey, P" He greeted me relaxedly, and I could feel his gaze still on my face.
"Hi" I greeted back, not looking at him. I was surprised he would even greet me in the first place. He's been avoiding me ever since what transpired between us at the gym.
"So, I really need your help" he said, going straight to the point.
"You....you what!?" I yelled under my breath as I got hit with another wave of surprise and looked at him squarely, locking eyes with him in the process. "You need my help?"
He scratched his dark eyebrow casually. "Are you gonna help me or not?"
I frowned at him and scoffed "Really?"
He eyed me.
I shook my head slowly. "You've been avoiding me for weeks, Barry. Weeks!" I whispered harshly "And now you just suddenly appeared and wanted my help."
"Let me guess" He licked his lips briefly "You want an apology from me."
I twisted my lips in anger before saying "I deserve one."
He chuckled sarcastically, ignoring the teacher in the classroom. "Pixie, don't you get it? I avoided you to help you run from me."
"And here you are asking for my help." I folded my arms and fixed my gaze on the teacher, but still had my conversation with Barry. "Bringing your troubles again" I added, speaking in mumble "That's the exact way to run from you, Barry. That is it" I said with heavy sarcasm.
He pushed back his soft curly hair, and I noticed that he had dyed it from black to brown. The lower part of his hair was dyed dark brown, and the upper part was dyed light brown. There is no colour that does not look good on Barry.
"It's a one-time thing" his deep voice sounded in my ear, his green eyes staring deeply into mine. "If you do it, I'll stay away from you forever and move out of nana's pack house"
I gave him a sharp look, and he nodded.
"Yeah, Pixie" he said with a serious gaze. "I'll leave your nana's place if you help me."
That was an offer I should grab instantly, but somehow, a stupid part of me doesn't want him to leave my nana's place, and I have no idea why. I shut my eyes and decided it's time to do the right thing. He should leave nana's pack house forever to avoid dramas with him in the future.
I exhaled "What do you want?" I asked him.
He sat forward, his gaze intense and focused on me. "Now, I'm gonna text your nana that I'm gonna bring you home early because something came up..."
I frowned "What?" My voice cut him off but he continued anyways in a firm voice.
"And you're gonna go along with everything"
I blinked, trying to process his words.
"You'll play pretend with me, okay?" His green eyes bore into mine, showing how serious he is. "You're gonna act for the teacher, pretend like you feel sick and wanna go home, and then I'll step in and offer to take you home."
I widened my eyes as realization dawned on me. "You want me to skip class with you!" I whisper-yelled.
He ran his hand through his dark and light brown dyed hair to push some strands backward. "Exactly."
"Barry" I called his name in an undertone, while he rolled his eyes. "You're gonna put me into trouble" I stated worriedly.
"Don't get too dramatic about this. I know you wanna get away from this class. It's boring the shit out of you, isn't it?"
He is right, but I have to think about it.
I bit my inner cheek, contemplating whether to agree to Barry's request or not.
He sighed softly, briefly interrupting my thoughts. "Don't overthink it, P. You skip class with me, and I'll move out of your nana's packhouse" he said nonchalantly. "I'll move back to the Alpha's packhouse, the main packhouse"
My eyes were shining at him, displaying the different thoughts on my mind.
"If you're worried about the lessons you're gonna miss, I'll get a private tutor to take you the missed lessons..." he proposed, but I knew with the glint in his eyes and the soft bite of his red lips, he was gonna say something stupid next. "Or I take you myself."
Yep. I knew it. I fucking knew it.
Barry proposing to take me lessons himself is definitely something stupid. I scowled at him.
He ran his tongue over red lips and gave me a side smile at me. "Relax, I'll get a tutor for you. I can talk to Pete to tutor you."
My eyes brightened. "Really?"
Barry let his eyes trail towards Pete, and I also did the same and caught Pete staring. My eyes connected with his own, and I took my time admiring his blue eyes.
"That's enough of eye-fucking now," Barry interrupted the gazing moment, annoying me. I was reluctant to take my eyes off Pete, and Barry noticed that.
"Miss Pixie, I need your attention here" Barry called my attention back to him. "You can eye-fuck my uncle all you want after giving me what I want, and you can even have the real fucking with him if..."
"Barry Knight!!" the teacher vociferated.
Oh shit.
"I swear to the goddess, this man's gonna get hypertensive soon" Barry muttered under his breath and with a simper, he apologized aloud to the teacher "Sorry, teach."
The teacher glared angrily at him. "You have been distracting Pixie ever since you arrived."
"Oh, no, sir," I said to the teacher. "Barry was just explaining something to me, sir." I quickly covered up for Barry, and when I glanced at the idiot I was covering up for, he was not looking sorry at all. His white teeth was gently biting down on his red, soft lips, while the teacher simply turned his focus back to the topic he was teaching.
"So?" Barry asked, lowering his voice to avoid getting in trouble with the teacher again.
I let out a sigh. "Just leave my nana out of this. You don't have to text her."
"Fine" he agreed immediately. "So do we have a deal?"
I hummed and gave a subtle nod. "Yeah" I swallowed "We have a deal"
Barry flashed me his killer smile, biting his lip softly.
Oh, what did I do?
I just made a deal with Barry. Fuck, I made a deal with the devil.