It was a week later when Noah and Luke first discovered exactly how hard it was to act like they were just teacher and student.

From the first second Luke entered the classroom, they couldn't keep their eyes away from eachother and Noah found himself searching for his words a few more times then he ever hoped or thought possible.

When his class was finally over, he couldn't help but overhear some students talking about how distracted he had seemed and how they hoped he wouldn't always be teaching their class that way.

He rubbed a hand over his face and took a deep breath. 'Focus Mayer, this is your job!',he thought to himself.

Turning around, Noah gave a quick scan of the classroom to check if everyone had left and with a mixture of dissapointment and relieve noted that Luke had already left as well.

Sitting down behind his desk, Noah leaned his head on his hands and tried to gather his thoughts.

What was it about seeing Luke that made it so hard for him to focus. Sure he was crazy about the guy as had been firmly establised the last week, but he also knew how important it was to keep up their just student/teacher appearences while they were at school. And they had been doing that quite well for the entire first week.

But today Luke was not just some random student he would pass in the hallway maybe once a day, the last Luke had been sitting right in front of him, watching him and Noah could tell that he was smiling.

At first he had tried very hard to ignore it. But he knew the first time he dared to look at Luke that he had made a mistake. The smile on his boyfriends face was unmistakable and it had never once left his face during the entire hour. Didn't he know what he was doing to Noah? Didn't he know that even though Noah said getting to know eachother better was worth risking his job, that that didn't mean that Luke had to go make it extra easy for anyone to notice there was something going on between them.

Taking another deep breath, Noah got up from behind his desk when he noticed Luke standing at the door.

"How long have you been standing there?" Noah asked, unwillingly letting some of his frustration come out by turning his back to Luke and rearanging his desk.

"Just a few minutes." Luke said, immediatly sensing that Noah wasn't happy with him.

He knew what he had done in class wasn't really a thing to be proud of. He had intentionally tried to distract Noah during the entire hour and despite loving the fact that he could desitract his boyfriend, he knew how much trouble Noah could get in if people were to notice anything going on between them.

So after first leaving the clasroom, he had quickly told Mel that he had forgotten something and went back to tell Noah he was sorry.

Walking closer to Noah's desk, Luke took a deep breath and prepared to apologize.

"What is wrong with you?" Noah asked, beating the younger man to it.

"Nothing!" Luke said, immediately jumping to his own defence, before taking a deep breath and taking Noah's hand in his.

When Noah pulled away, Luke realised that what he had done had had a bigger impact on Noah then he could have imagined.

"Will you please just listen to me Noah? Look, I know that what I did in class wasn't good, but you don't have to treat me like the enemy here. You knew this would be difficult. And in all honesty, I didn't really do all that much did I? All I did was smile at you, I can't help it if you're so easily distracted by my good looks!"

Luke knew he had gotten the desired effect when he saw the corners of Noah's mouth turn up into a smile.

Taking his boyfriends hands in his, Luke squeezed them and got Noah to look him in the eye.

"I'm sorry okay? I didn't mean to distract you. Okay so maybe I did.." Luke quickly admitted after Noah give him a look.

"But you have to know that I would never want you to get in trouble, okay? I know how much you love your job and despite having said that getting to know me is apparantly worth risking your job, that doesn't mean that I have to make it so easy for you to lose it. Can you please forgive me?"

Noah looked at Luke and coudln't help but be amazed at how well they had gotten to know eachother in just 1 week. Luke had just voiced the exact thoughts that had been on his mind not more then a few minutes ago.

"I forgive you." Noah said, before pulling Luke into his arms for a hug. When they pulled apart after a few minutes, Luke quickly glanced at the door before placing a gentle kiss on Noah's lips and smiling.

"I guess we just survived our first fight." Luke said and he was happy to see Noah break out into a smile.

"I guess we did. Now you have to get moving, because I have to prepare for my next class. I will see you tonight?"

Luke smiled and nodded. "Can't wait!"

After another quick kiss, Luke left Noah alone to prepare for his next class. Neither of them being aware of the footsteps quickly walking away from the classroom door.

To Be Continued...