I found a new obsession.
Adam sighed when the bell rang. The end of another hard week being a fourteen year old science teacher.
"Ada- I mean Mr. Young? Can I get tutoring some time soon? I don't really understand the Periodic Table." Echo asked from the classroom door.
Adam dropped the pile of paper he was going to grade that night, and it spilled all over the floor. "Why, sure Echo. Let me just check my tutoring schedule..." He pulled his schedule out of his backpack. He was free all of next week, but do you think he would wait the entire weekend to see her again? OF COURSE NOT. "I'm mostly full. You could come over to my house today, if you want.
Echo smiled. "Are you sure? I don't want to intrude!"
"I'm absolutly sure! I have some loose ends to tie up here, so do you want to come over at four?" Adam said, barely daring to believe he had a date with Echo.
"Uh, Sure. See you then!"
Echo skipped out of Finnegan High, to walk home by herself to her Aunt's house. This time, Adam wasn't upset. He waited until Echo was out of sight, then sprinted as fast as he could on the back path to his house, so Echo wouldn't see him. He burst into his kitchen, out of breath, but still full of energy.
"Hi Adam!" Ivy said from the kitchen table.
Adam gasped. "Ivy, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"Oh, just trying to make a roasted chicken."
"No." Adam whipped out a poultry chart. "Those are fryers."
Ivy stuck out her lip. "Stop critisizing me!" She gathered her chicken and ran upstairs.
"Alright then." Adam plopped down at his kitchen table and reached for an apple. He glanced at his watch. It read 3:50. Adam dropped the apple and sprinted up to his room. First on the agenda, non-stick cooking spray. Derby had told him that it works, and sure enough, Sydney had thought he smelled great. Adam checked to make sure his hair looked ok, and then he ran downstairs just as the doorbell rang. "Coming!" He shouted. This was it, time for Adam to get the girl.
"Hi Adam," Echo said with her trademark smile, "I hope i'm not intruding."
"Of course you aren't." Adam was thanking his lucky stars that he actually had Echo in his house. "Come right in."
Echo adjusted the strap of her backpack and stepped over the threshhold. "Wow, something smell amazing!" She said.
Adam smirked. Derby may be wrong about pretty much everything, but somehow he was never wrong when it came to women loving the smell of some good ol' non-stick cooking spray. "Do you want to set up in the kitchen? It's well lit, but Ivy might bother us if she comes down. She was trying to cook a chicken earlier, and then she brought upstairs..."
"Oh...Ivy was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, was she?"
"No. One time when I was nine, she paid me to do her algebra homework for her."
"Maybe we should start the tutoring session, my mom said that I have to be home by 6:00."
Adam sighed. "Right."
"So, C is Carbon, right?" Echo asked, her voice sounding confident .
"Perfect! You said that you were having trouble with this section, but you have, like, the entire table memorized."
"Ah-oh. Did I say that?"
"Uh, yeah, you did."
"Well, this is awkward."
"Yeah, it is."
"Adam?"
"Yeah?"
"Um, I kinda like you."
Adam turned toward her. Really? First Echo coming to his house, and then she admitting that she likes him? "Heh, really? Like what kind of like?"
"Umm, like...like."
"I like you back." Ah, why did he have to blurt that? But of course, it was a Friday night, and his crush was sitting across from him, and- Echo kissed him.
"AHHHHHHHH"
Echo gasped and covered her face. "I JUST KISSED MY TEACHER!"
Adam leaped up from the table. "YOU THINK THAT'S BAD? I JUST KISSED MY STUDENT!"
I didn't really matter how creeped out they both were, Echo still stood and walked over to Adam, and put her hands in his hair and kissed him.
