Chapter 1: Sami.

It's this one thing that got me trippin',

It's this one thing that got me trippin',

You did,

This one thing my soul may be feelin'

It's this one thing you did,

Oh, oh, oh oh.

Smack!

I felt something hard slam into me as I walked down the corridor for the first time, my books flying out of my hands and spilling onto the floor.

'Ow, shit!' I exclaimed loudly as I rubbed my head, scrambling to pick my books back up from the floor.

'You should watch where you're going next time,' I heard a manly, northern voice say from behind me, 'and we don't tolerate swearing at this school.'

I picked up my last book, turned around and saw a very attractive, young looking man with short, dark brown hair looking at me expectantly. I winced again, still rubbing my forehead.

'Sorry,' I mumbled back in a pained voice, just the thought of him looking at me making me blush bright red. 'I'm looking for a Mr Mead?' I said nervously.

'Well, you've already found him.' The man replied, smiling at me. 'You must be Sami, right?'

I nodded, still transfixed by how gorgeous he was, and somehow managed to say 'Yeah, that's me.' Still smiling at me, he gestured to follow him.

I walked alongside him, taking in the surroundings of new school and trying to think of something witty or intelligent to say. I got so absorbed in my thoughts that the next thing I knew, I could hear him laughing as I walked past the office door that he was standing next to.

I turned around, my face turning even more red as I apologised again and walked up to doorway, desperately trying to avoid his eyes. He opened the door and said 'after you!'

I walked in and sat down on a seat opposite the desk, carefully putting my bag and books on the floor, not hearing him sit down on the seat opposite me. I sat back up in my chair and looked at the desk and saw Mr Mead sat there opposite me. A look of surprise crossed my face and he laughed at me again.

As I tried (and failed) to compose myself, he spoke again. 'Well, Sami, welcome to Waterloo Road. As you already know, I'm Mr Mead, I'm the deputy head and I'll be your chemistry teacher. We do have rules which we expect you to follow, but I'll save you that lecture,' he said, winking at me. 'I have your timetable here, and you're in my form.' I smiled as he handed me a sheet of paper with all my timetabled classes on them. A bell rang, and he stood up. 'Right, we'd better head to registration, shouldn't we?' he sighed, stopping by the doorway.

I dragged myself out of the chair, slung my bag back over my shoulder, picked up my pile of books and headed slowly towards the door again. I looked up to find him staring at me and I saw him blush slightly as I ran a hand through my shoulder-length blonde hair and locked my green eyes with his clear, blue ones. Was he just.. checking me out? I thought to myself.

I reached the doorway and stopped, standing next to Mr Mead. He cleared his throat and lead the way down the corridor and into a small science lab, where several other students had already piled in through the door and were slumped in their seats. I looked around anxiously and realised that the only seat left was right at the very front, next to the door.

Mr Mead smiled at me again, and I sat down in the seat, watching him saunter towards his desk and flop down in his chair. 'Morning everyone..' he sighed, running a hand through his dark hair. 'Before I register you all this morning, we have someone new who's joined us today.' He smiled, looking directly at me. He stood up again and walked up to my desk and I could feel everyone's eyes boring into the back of my head, but I didn't dare turn around. 'This is Sami Winter and she just moved here from London. Make her feel welcome, because this is all completely new to her, okay?' He looked down at me, bit his lip and returned to his desk, bringing the register up on his laptop. 'Oh-kay..' he said, then called out each person in the form's name.

Knowing my name was at the end, I sat at my desk, smirking and carefully watching his facial expressions as he called out the register. He looked up as he got to my name, clearly catching me staring at him and looked back down, smirking too as I answered to my name.

Just as I managed to stop staring at him, the bell rang. 'Okay, see you lot later!' Mr Mead shouted over the sudden buzz of noise coming from the classroom as everyone grabbed their bags and headed out the door for their first lesson of the day. I picked up my books, put my bag on my shoulder again and walked up to Mr Mead's desk. 'Sir, what time do we have registration in the afternoon?' I asked. '5 to 2,' He replied, grinning at me. 'You won't be needing those yet,' he said, gesturing to my bag and books, 'you've got chemistry with me now.'

I felt my cheeks grow hot, 'oh, have I now?' I replied cheekily, taking a step closer to him. He stayed still, and I heard his breathing grow heavier as his eyes scanned every inch of my face.

I was about to take another step towards him, but I felt something tug lightly on my red and gold striped tie, pulling me even closer than I'd planned. I looked up at him, our faces just inches apart, and he smiled flirtatiously at me.

I smiled cheekily back at him, reached up and ran a hand through his perfect, almost black hair. He closed his eyes and breathed in sharply and I continued massaging his scalp. I felt his hand smoothing over my own blonde hair and I'd never felt more happy in my life. I inched closer, so our foreheads were touching and our hands still wandering in one another's hair. I lifted my free hand and slowly ran my index finger down his throat, then moved it up to his face, tracing every perfect detail of his skin. He moaned quietly, softly as I tugged playfully on his earlobe.

I felt his free hand softly on top of mine and he squeezed it, his other hand floated down from my hair to my face. I closed my eyes and leaned in to his touch, letting a happy sigh escape my mouth. I heard him whisper in my ear 'come on.' He let our hands fall down back to where they should be, still entangled. I opened my eyes and let him pull me towards a small cupboard at the back of the room, away from the classroom door.

We grinned secretively at each other, still holding hands and he shut the door. He pulled me close to him, letting go of my hand and snaked his arms around my waist. Still grinning, I wrapped my arms around his neck and began to stroke the back of his neck. 'Will you stop teasing me?' he groaned, placing his hands on the small of my back. I didn't reply, I just edged closer to him so that our foreheads were touching again, and I was gazing into his perfect blue eyes.

I leaned in even closer, and kissed his forehead gently. His hands tightened around my waist, and I covered every inch of his face apart from his lips with little butterfly kisses. I felt him shiver slightly and I pulled away, looking into his eyes teasingly.

He didn't say anything for a second, just looked deeply into my eyes and then whispered 'I've been wanting this since you crashed into me this morning.' His face inched closer and closer to mine and we both shut our eyes, marvelling in the moment.

I felt his lips brush mine and I felt everything else fall away, as if there was nothing else in the world apart from the two of us. I kissed him gently back, my hands still massaging his neck. I felt him smile into the kiss and he deepened it. I could taste his morning coffee that he'd been sipping while we were being registered and a little of the mints he'd been chewing on while we were talking in his office earlier on. I kissed him more roughly, moving one of my hands to loosen his tie and undo the top button on his shirt. He kissed me back, with more passion than I'd ever felt before and started to nibble on my bottom lip.

I sighed happily, loosening his tie even more until I finally pulled it off and threw it on the floor. Still passionately kissing him, I rested a hand on his chest, feeling his heart racing beneath his shirt.

I pulled away slowly, not moving my face an inch as we breathed heavily, looking at each other, completely stunned.

'Can we do this some more?' I asked quietly when I got my breath back.

'Oh, God yes.' He grinned, and just as we were about to kiss again, we heard the corridor spring to life as my chemistry class lined up outside the room. We looked at each other, shocked. He put his tie back on, ran a hand through his hair, did up his top button and winked at me, walking out of the cupboard door. He squeezed my hand one more time, laughed and said 'I'll see you in a minute.. you'd better sit at the front again, they've all claimed the other seats!'