Scholarly Misbehavior

Hey! I'm back….with a brand new chapter nonetheless. Sorry for the long delay, but school has just been absolutely hectic lately, but i'll try to update more often. Thanks for all the reviews! So now that you've met the guys, what do you think? Even they might come off as jackasses a little bit, don't worry…I guess it's kinda part of their charm in a way. There's some more Rei/Jared interaction in this chapter, so enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own jack…or jill for that matter. Anyway, I wish I owned Sailormoon…but I don't…and I'm not even worth suing since I'm as poor as a church mouse…I'm just borrowing the characters for a little while…

Chapter 4

Jared's eyes narrowed angrily, eyes glued to her form as she came into his class. She hadn't even so much as given him a glance and on top of that, to add salt to the wound, she had come in with her arm latched on to some other boy, laughing animatedly at whatever he was telling her. She was dressed to kill and it was driving him crazy. She was clad in skin-tight, black leather pants and a fiery, red droop-neck tank-top, to show off those lovely pale arms of hers. Jared coughed loudly to gain the attention of the class and then turned to the blackboard to start his lecture on the intricacies of glycolysis.

Rei had made sure she didn't come to class by herself. She just didn't think she could face Mr. Campton alone at that point. She didn't want to be put in such a vulnerable position again. Of course, this required an effort on her part to actually get the attention of some stupid, unsuspecting male. She shuddered at thinking of the terrible experience. It took so much acting and self-restraint for her to pretend to welcome Chris' none-too-subtle advances. She had to hold in the urge to punch his lights out when he put his arms around her shoulders in the hallways to walk her to class. But upon seeing Mr. Campton's furious face as she waltzed in, clinging to Chris and hanging on to his every word, laughing insanely at his completely tactless jokes, she gauged that it was well worth her own personal discomfort. She smirked to herself. Damn I'm good.

Suddenly, Jared knew what she was doing. Well, two can play that game Miss Lambert. And I can promise you that I'll be the one on top…in more ways than one.

"Miss Lambert, will you please come up to the board, seeing as how you're paying such close attention to my class. Write the chemical formula for the oxidation of glucose into pyruvate."

Jared's stern voice snapped Rei out of the delightful little reverie that she had currently been having on her wonderfully empty Biology notebook. She got up from her seat and made a point not to make eye contact with him as she walked briskly up to the front of the class. Unfortunately, there was only one little area that she could walk past beyond the desk to get to the chalkboard, and it was occupied at the moment…by the loathed Mr. Campton. She pouted for a second and then, huffing out a bit, decided to try to sidestep him. Jared had other ideas though. He stepped up even closer and as she brushed by, he made sure she felt every contour of his perfectly sculpted body.

Rei's eyes grew round as she felt his hand brush the small of her back ever so lightly. It was barely more than a feathery touch, but she shivered anyway. What was he thinking?! They had an audience of more than 40 students and he was still making passes at her! She decided to not let him affect her in any visible way. Rei lifted her chin high up in the air and glided right past him to the chalkboard, where she proceeded to write the correct answer, and then in a fit of rebellion, she impishly tossed the chalk to her stunned teacher and sauntered back to her seat. The rest of the students tittered with laughter, which was soon silenced by his reprimanding voice.

"That's enough. Well, that's the correct answer Miss Lambert, but I would appreciate it if you would at least make an effort to stay awake in my class."

"But why do that? I think I learn more biology in my dreams, Mr. Campton. You would want to deprive me of my education, now would you?"

"I'll remind you that your transcript is heavily dependent on me Miss Lambert. What graduate school are you applying to again? One bad word from me…."

Rei bristled and glared at him with unconcealed ferocity.

"You don't have a right to—"

"I am your professor Miss Lambert. Must I remind you of the hierarchy of the college system? I think it would serve you well to behave a little better for me. And I suggest you go to bed if you want to dream of biology."

The last sentence had a hidden meaning that only Rei picked up on, but she kept it to herself. It wouldn't do her any good to make a racket like some spoiled child right now. She knew he had won this round, but she vowed it wouldn't happen again.

She swung around at Mina's incessant poking her in the side.

"What?" Rei hissed, annoyed.

"Whoa…ok, well anyway, besides your extremely pissy mood, is there something going on between you and Professor Campton that I don't know about. There's some definite biochemistry going on between you two," whispered Mina.

"Long story. I'll tell you later," grumbled Rei, slumping down in her seat upon seeing Jared's triumphant smirk, directed towards her no doubt.

Mina looked at her curiously but left the matter alone. She would find out soon enough. There were no secrets between Rei and her close friends. That was one of the great things about her. She hated her enemies with a passion that made you feel sorry for whatever unfortunate soul who happened to earn her dislike. But she was also completely open and devoted to her close friends, the most dedicated and loyal person you could ever hope to meet.

The rest of class was rather uneventful, the typical homework assignment overload of a 100+ pages to read within 2 days and the typical collective groan of students that accompanied it. Rei was just happy that she would finally be getting out of his sight. That man was just too much for her! She shoved her book and handouts with abandon into her bookbag and turned to make a quick exit, when who should be blocking her path but the bane of her life, Mr. Campton yet again. She shifted her legs and put one hand on her hip, not bothering to hide her contempt for him.

"What do you want now, Mr. Campton?"

"Such a tone, Miss Lambert. I just wanted you to help me photocopy some papers for my Introductory Biology class. I would do it myself, but I need to set up for the lab they're doing."

"Well, I'm kind of busy, so could you ask someone else to do it?"

"The papers are in my office, and as far as I know, you're the only one who knows where it is."

"But I have previous appointments."

"Oh? And just what might they be?"

Rei opened her mouth but found no excuse for her to bullshit. She racked her brain quickly for an escape route but came up empty. Mina, sensing her friend's jam, quickly interjected.

"She has a date with Chris, Mr. Campton."

Bad idea. Rei slapped her hand to her forehead as Jared's eyes narrowed again, giving off a hard blue glint. Count on Mina to try to help but instead bungle up the situation even more. That was the worst excuse possible at that point!

"He can wait for a few minutes, can't he?" Jared said in a low voice, trying to keep his temper in check. That little slut! Yesterday, she was acting all innocent and inexperienced, even going so far as rejecting him, and suddenly, she has a boyfriend already? Well, he would make sure their relationship wouldn't last. Whatever he targeted, he made sure he got.

Rei sighed resignedly.

"Fine. Mina, go ahead. I'll meet up with you later. Tell, Chris I'll be a little late."

She added the last line as an afterthought, but she felt she had to keep up the veracity of Mina's thoughtless lie. Rei waved Mina off as she wandered off slowly, turning back to mouth an "Are you going to be ok?" to Rei. Rei smiled slightly and nodded.

"The things that need to be photocopied are right on my desk, Miss Lambert. Make 50 copies of each down in the faculty room and then bring them up to me here, all right?"

"Yes master," Rei grumbled as she stalked out of the classroom and down the nearly vacant hallway.

Jared shook his head. This girl was going to be handful; he just knew it.

Rei blew into his office like a tornado on crack. The door opened with a resounding smack, as the force she opened it with had been enough to almost send it off its hinges. She was beyond pissed now, and maybe a little frightened….but that was what angered her most. The fact that she was scared. Rei, the unconquerable, the indomitable, the "Spitfire", was actually scared. That just didn't happen, but somehow, this man, this beast, this…whatever you would call him, got under her skin like no one else could. She would give him that much, the victory of getting to her for a while but nothing else.

She grabbed the folder of documents from desk and rushed down to the copy room with long, purposeful strides. The faster she got this over with, the better. She stood impatiently next to the copy machine as it cranked and warmed up. What was up with all this outdated tech stuff in this school? Only last week, the whole entire body tube of her microscope had broken off as she was analyzing a specimen. Naturally, she had to pay for the damage even though a breath of air probably would have knocked it off just the same.

She breathed in relief as the photocopy machine finally, after what seemed like eons of waiting, got done with the task. She hastily gathered the mass of papers and rushed back to the classroom, not wanting to stay even a second more than necessary. But when she got there, Mr. Campton was nowhere to be found.

Rei peered around cautiously. He did say to bring them back to the room right? So where was he now? He couldn't have possibly ditched her here.

The door behind her closed with a softly resounding click, and Rei instantly spun around, only to face Jared, who was only inches from her. Rei reflectively jumped back.

"Oh, Mr. Campton, I didn't see you."

"Miss me?" Jared asked coyly.

"No." Her voice was soft but held such a definite firmness and resolution that he didn't doubt she meant every bit of it. He sighed. This would take a lot more work than he had previously thought.

"Look Miss Lambert, I think we need to talk."

"Depends. About what?"

"About what happened the other day."

"I have nothing to say about that."

Jared slightly raised one eyebrow in question.

"Really?"

"Yes, because nothing happened."

Oh, so that's how it's gonna be, huh? She going to pretend like there was nothing going on between us. Well, maybe I should remind her then…

"Nothing? Is that your final answer Miss Lambert."

"Yes."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, you freak! Why do you keep on asking me?! Do you have a hearing problem or have I not made myself perfectly clear that I—"

His stealthy kiss took all thoughts of whatever she was currently ranting about right out of her head. Unlike the first time, this kiss was completely gentle, like an artist's brush lightly gliding over a canvas. He nipped at her lips with a caress becoming a gentleman and a lover, both of which Rei had before thought him to be the complete antithesis of. With a heady moan, she deepened the kiss on her own accord, not really knowing what she was doing, but not caring. It was like she was floating, separated from her earthly body, existing in a frozen time where the kiss was the only thing she knew was for certain. Jared's large hands drifted up and down Rei's smooth back, eliciting shivers of excitement and anticipation from her. Suddenly, her back hit something smooth and cold. She hadn't even seen him maneuver her toward the front of the room and now she was backed up against the chalkboard. She figured he must have a fetish for walls or something. His kisses left her lips and traveled downward, nibbling and delicately sucking on her neck and eventually her smooth collarbone. Sometime during the whole thing, Jared had pinned Rei's arms to her side with both his hands, presumably so she couldn't interfere. She felt like she was on the edge of overload; one more little push and she would be helpless against him. Her legs felt weak and wobbly; she doubted if they couldn't even hold her own weight. Instead, she leaned against Jared with her eyes still closed in pure bliss.

Jared smiled deviously. So the little minx wasn't invincible. A few right moves from him and she was completely powerless. He lowered his head even more, trailing hot kisses downward and downward….

~Oooh…..what's going to happen now? Will Rei stop again? Or will she actually just let it happen this time? Hehe…evil me….I stopped at another bad point….Well, stay tuned. The next chapter should be out soon. In the meantime, please review….it might help me type faster. Lol.

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