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In English Today the class was working on the paper Kim had finished this morning so she just doodled in her notebook trying not to stare at Jared who was struggling with his essay, but she was unable stop thinking about him and shooting him furtive glances so she distracted herself by doodling his name, her name, and her name with his surname with artistic love hearts. The poor girl nearly had a panic attack when Mr. Charleston came to check our progress.
"Kimberly that doesn't appear to be an essay. May I see what that is you are doing?" He asked in his southern accent full of twang. Oh shit was all she could think.
"Um…actually sir the thing is…I've just been doodling you see. I finished my essay this morning, I've memorized the vocabulary words and I have no homework from my other classes, except art which I would need my pastels to do." Kim pulled out her essay to show him the freshly printed pages. He didn't look all the way convinced and asked her to spell a couple of the vocabulary words she claimed to know, which she did correctly.
"Well I am very impressed with your work ethic." He replied still looking slightly stunned and then walked away leaving Kim blushing hiding her face with her hair so Jared wouldn't see the deep crimson that had taken over her cheeks.
Teachers thought Kim was exceptionally smart just because she worked hard and managed to pull A's in their class and she hated to feel like a teachers pet, especially when Jared was sitting like, three inches away. A totally cool guy, who is smart (she was pretty sure he got a B average but I was not so far gone that she know for sure, though she was actually right) and is funny, and really insanely handsome doesn't want to date a nerd. But it was just Kim's luck Paul who sat directly behind her heard the whole thing.
"Dang Kimberly! You finished already? We only got the assignment a week ago and we have another week plus it has to be like five pages. How'd you manage that plus all your other work?" He asked in awe.
She turned abruptly in my seat the opposite way from Jared of coarse. "Kim, Paul I've known you since like first grade. The name is Kim. And yeah I finished the assignment in a couple days it really isn't that complicated." she started to turn around but figured I better clue the guy in. "And it is ten to twenty pages not five and is due tomorrow." Then she turned around smirking slightly but trying to hide it.
Then she heard a chuckle from her left and sighed internally. She was thrilled that Jared didn't hate her because of her little tirade; I mean Paul is his friend but he is also a total jerk. "Dude, you so got told!" Jared said before chuckling again and then going back to work. Even his chuckle is so, handsome! She thought, blushing again hiding her face behind her hair.
Oh man, the girl definitely was in deep.