Chapter Seventeen

"Try rotating your wrist and moving your fingers for me." Several loud clicks made Sydney and Jill cringe when Adrian moved his wrist, feeling the once-stiff joint loosen up after a few movements. He then moved his fingers for them to also click, but not as badly as his wrist. "Everything seems to be in good shape." The school's doctor smiled at Adrian. "Looks like you no longer need a support."

"That's great." Adrian let out a relieved sigh. Now that his hand and wrist was all better he could get back to being able to work properly. He couldn't wait to try out drawing with his right hand again.

"Just remember not to do much with your hand at first. Gradually build up using it more often." The doctor smiled at Adrian. "You better get going, lunch is going to end soon."

The Spring Break went by with flying colours for all the students. Adrian and Sydney spent the rest of the break together, often spotted holding hands whenever they were on their own. The rest of the group didn't see them kiss once since the party, and that was because they didn't. Sydney was still embarrassed at how she kissed Adrian first as she was a bit tipsy. Adrian understood that, and never forced her to do something she wasn't comfortable on doing. So instead he simply kissed her on the forehead whenever they said hello or goodbye to each other.

It was a Tuesday afternoon, which meant it was time for Art for Adrian and Jill. It also meant that they would be seeing Mia in the classroom, which neither teen was happy about. Sydney had extra science to finally finish off her project. All the others weren't at the bench when they came back, despite having five minutes left of their break. Chances were Rose, Dimitri, Eddie and Mason went off to their Self-Defence class while Christian and Lissa walked off together to spend some time alone before going their separate ways.

"I'll see you back at the dorms after class." Adrian leant in and kissed Sydney on top of the forehead. This earned a smiled from her, making her wrap her arms around his body and hugging him. "Bye."

"Bye." Adrian and Jill watched Sydney walk towards the science department before heading off to the art block in the middle of the school.

"So how are things going with you guys." Adrian smiled to himself, shaking his head while Jill giggled next to him. "I haven't seen you guys much since the party. What have you guys been doing? You don't want to know what they guys think you're doing."

"I can image what they think. And it's not what they think." Adrian opened the door to the art block, holding it open so that Jill could walk in first. "We've just been spending time together, getting to know one another. She's still nervous and doesn't know what to do so I'm holding myself back so I don't do anything so stupid and reckless that could scare her."

"That's wise. Take things slow."

"That's what I'm doing. Anyway, how are things with you and-"

Adrian opened the door to their classroom and froze when he spotted Dimitri in the classroom, sitting on Tasha's desk smiling at her while she sat in her seat smiling up at him. The Russian boy turned and saw Adrian and Jill, with his face burning bright red. Adrian then spotted Tasha and saw she too had red cheeks before she turned her face and looked away from her art students. He burst out laughing while Jill looked confused.

"Dimitri, what are you doing here?"

"Um...I...uh..."

"I can't believe you're actually did it!"

"Did what?" Jill looked from Dimitri, to Adrian, and back.

Tasha looked away from the students but also had red cheeks because Dimitri had confessed to her that he liked her and was in fact falling for her, with her reply being that she also liked him and wanted to be in a relationship with him. She was worried that others would find out, and from Adrian's reaction he already knew about it.

From the look that Dimitri was giving him, he didn't want anyone else to know just now about his teacher-crush. And seeing as he already said a bit too much Jill just had to have an answer, so one popped into his head.

"He wanted to see if Miss Ozera could teach him how to paint."

"But Dimitri, you suck at art!" Ah, poor, gullible Jill. Adrian winked at Dimitri who smiled back at him, with Tasha also smiling back. "Anyway, Miss, we have class in a minute."

"Of course. Dimitri, maybe you can come back after school. We'll continue discussing giving you extra lessons." Tasha had picked up on what Adrian was doing and decided to go along with it. The less number of students who knew about the relationship the better.

"Sure. I'll see you later Miss Ozera." The Russian boy walked towards Adrian and Jill, flashing a glare at the young artist. "I'll talk to you after school Adrian."

"You can't, you have 'extra lessons' with Miss Ozera."

The young artist was just loving winding up both his best friend and teacher, who was avoiding all eye contact with her students as others walked in. Dimitri left the classroom embarrassed at what just happened.

Adrian and Jill took their seats for the remaining students in the classroom to arrive, including Mia. When Tasha got the students to paint something or someone in the classroom, Adrian took his jumper off to show Mia that he no longer needed any sort of support for his hand, making her slightly angry at how quickly his hand managed to heal.

And if that didn't make her angry enough. Adrian started to paint with his right hand to show he could still use it. Something about his paintings wasn't the same, but it had been eight weeks since he used his right hand to paint with. It would take some time to get his skill right again. Tasha came around to see how he was using another student's work to paint, before leaning into him.

"Can I talk to you outside for a minute?"

"Sure." Adrian left his work under the watchful eye on Jill and stepped outside. Before she opened her mouth, he knew what she was going to say. "About earlier, Dimitri told us about his feelings and we encouraged him to confess. And yes, Christian knows. He said that as long as everything is okay and no one gets in trouble he doesn't mind."

Tasha smiled to herself. Despite being his aunt, she treated Christian like he was her son and brother. He couldn't help but worry over him like a mother would, always watching over him and making sure he was doing well at school as well as help him with any worries he had. But she also wanted him to have fun and quite often spent a lot of time with him like a big sister, trying to get secrets out of him and teasing him about how much he was in love with Lissa. Knowing that he was okay with having a relationship with one of his friends just took a look of weight off her chest.

"Only us guys know. He hasn't told the girls, and from the look he gave me earlier he doesn't want them to know yet. That's why I came up with that excuse about taking art lessons." A smile came to his face while Adrian crossed his arms. "Just to let you know Miss; Dimitri isn't the kind of guy to hurt anyone. I don't know you that well despite being my friend's aunt. You're probably one stand-up babe, but just don't do anything to hurt the fella. He's got a heart of gold."

"I know." She smiled sweetly to her young student. "And that's why I wouldn't do anything to hurt him. We have to talk though, make sure that neither of us get in trouble." She patted him on top of the head. "You're a good guy Adrian. Thanks for telling me this."