Chapter Eighteen

"No!"

"Damn it!"

"I can't believe he got out!" With the weather being so nice for the students, Eddie asked Mason and Rose if they wanted to join the cricket match that some of his friends had organized earlier that day. After they accepted the offer they got changed out of their school clothes and into some casual clothing of t-shirts and either jeans or shorts.

Adrian, Sydney, Lissa, Christian and Jill were invited to watch as they were playing cricket in the front field where the group hung around. Dimitri still wasn't back from his 'extra lesson' which brought up a couple of questions from his friends. Adrian told the group that Dimitri was seeing Tasha about having 'extra lessons' for the girls to start saying how Dimitri was bad at art and was probably trying to improve his art skills, while the guys truly knew that their Russian friend was seeing Christian's aunt to discuss their relationship after Adrian confirmed that he did in fact confess to the teacher.

Christian and Lissa were sitting on the grass in their usual little world whenever they were sitting closely together while Adrian, Sydney and Jill were on the benches watching along with several other random students. Mason, Eddie and Rose were on the batting team, and Eddie was caught out by Ralf who, along with Jesse, were asked to join in the game as they were both good cricket players.

"Eddie is one of the best batters this school has. It's a shame that he's out."

"But hang on a second, it's an odd number." Everyone turned their attention to Adrian. "That means that someone can bat twice on Eddie's team. So can't he bat again as long as everyone else on the team gets a go?"

"It seems a bit unfair how the best batter they have on the team gets to go twice." Jesse crossed his arms, smirking at the artist. "So how about you come in and play. Since you caught the ball those weeks ago with your left hand, I've been wanted to see more of your skills. Unless your hand is still fucked up?"

"Actually, I may surprise you Zeklos." Adrian stood up, taking his jumper off for both Jesse and Ralf to see the cast-free hand, for a bit of anger to build up in both boys. Sydney took his hand with a worried expression on her face.

"Adrian, you shouldn't play sport in the sun. What if something happens?" He smiled down at her.

"I'll only bat, I won't run." The worried expression was still on her face so he leant in and kissed her on the forehead. She enjoyed those kisses, as each kiss boosted her confidence. She felt one step closer to being able to kiss him back every time Adrian planted the kiss to her forehead. "I promise. I'll get Rose to run for me."

Everyone in the school knew that Adrian, along with Lissa, Christian, Jill and quite a few other students, couldn't play sport in the sun for long as they were weak against it. Even Jesse and Ralf knew this. So no one commented or argued against Adrian when he asked Rose to run for him after he hit the ball to which she agreed on doing, as long as he brought her a couple of glazed doughnuts as a reward.

Adrian got into position, taking the bat off Eddie and preparing himself for the ball. Jesse clicked his fingers and neck, preparing himself to throw a difficult ball for Adrian to hit. He wanted to humiliate the artist as much as he could for humiliating Mia. Breaking his hand was just the start for Jesse and Ralf. To Adrian, breaking his hand was as far as it was going to go.

With a bit of distance between him and the wickets Jesse ran forward at a fast speed, then perfectly bowled the cricket ball at Adrian. It was a very fast ball, the fasted ball in the game. Jesse was the school's cricket bowler and had obviously been holding himself back throughout the game as many of the other students playing couldn't keep up with his speed. But Adrian, much to everyone's shock, could. He watched the ball, lifted the bat up, and swung it to land a perfect hit on the ball. The ball flew through the air towards the school that was on the left of him. There was no need for Rose to run as the ball was going to easily hit the six mark. Everyone started cheering while the ball kept flying through the air.

"And that!" Adrian dropped the bat and grinned at Jesse. "Is how you play crick-" When the sound of glass breaking echoed towards the students followed by angry cries of the teachers, Adrian froze on the spot along with the other students on the field. "Oh shit."

"He broke a window!" Lissa gasped, covering her mouth. Christian sat there speechless, unable to believe that Adrian managed to break a school window with the cricket ball. Jill started freaking out leaving Sydney to try and calm her down, but she was also freaking out. A part of her was extremely happy at how well Adrian had batted.

"Great one Adrian."

"Nice work."

"If we get in trouble we're blaming you." Adrian faced Rose, Mason and Eddie who were obviously enjoying the humorous side of it all, but were showing black expressions on their faces to try and wind the artist up.

"I didn't mean to break the fucking window!"

"Let's just get out of here before the teachers get us!" Christian stood up, dragging Lissa away from the scene of crime along with other students who were already fleeing. Adrian ran up to Sydney, taking her hand and laughed with her when she saw how happy she looked.

Back at the dorm Dimitri had arrived back several minutes before the others. He and Tasha spoke things out, and they agreed to start a secret relationship as long as it didn't get in the way of his studies and they didn't do anything reckless that could cause losing her job. They shared a passionate kiss before he left, leaving him extremely happy.

When the others returned to the dorms and told the story on how Adrian managed to break a window during a game of cricket, Dimitri couldn't help but burst out laughing for everyone else to join in. They were so focused on getting away from the teachers that they didn't get the chance to laugh about it earlier. But now that they were in the safety of the dorms they joked about it.

Rose still wanted her doughnuts but as she didn't actually run Adrian didn't want to spend his cigarette money on buying her something for something she didn't do. After a brief and entertaining argument to everyone else the pair agreed that if she would keep the promise to do a favour for him and in return he would buy her a twelve-packet of glazed doughnuts.

"You do realise that the school probably caught you hitting the ball that smashed the window, right?"

"Yeah, but it was an accident. At most they'll probably give me a warning. It's not like I stood in front of the window and directly threw the ball at it on purpose."

"Didn't you get into trouble for kicking a ball through a window at a previous school?"

"Do you have to bring that up?"