Chapter 13:
I called for Beatrice to meet me in my office. I was growing impatient she was taking a long time…Finally a knock on the door.
"Come in"
"Jeanine, I need to speak to you."
"Well Beatrice I invited you here so that I could speak to you, so could I please talk to you for one minute without you being so defiant?!"
I said that more aggressively than intended. She curled into herself a little. I think I frightened her. Her jaw started to clench and she stared at me very aggressively.
"Beatrice… you are in erudite, in erudite we obey orders, we have goals set that we are striving to achieve, and your silly little crush will get in the way of that."
She didn't speak. This worried me.
"Are you going to reply?"
She did reply, in a passively calm voice, stretching out the syllables as if it was hard for her to say:
"You started this Jeanine."
I did start this, she wasn't lying, I was going to argue back, but I thought against it.
"I know Beatrice, I take full blame for sending that letter."
"Yeah well…"
"I'm not sorry though."
"CAN YOU STOP?"
"Stop what?"
I was genuinely surprised by her outburst.
"YOU KEEP SENDING ME MIXED SIGNALS, FIRST YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH ME, THEN YOU DON"T WANT ANYTHING."
"I love you Beatrice…"
"SEE? THERE YOU GO AGAIN, YOU DON'T LOVE ME"
She was clearly distressed at this point. So I just stayed silent.
She calmed down and walked right up to me inches from my face. We were so close to each other I could feel the warmth of her breath.
"I want to continue tutoring with you" She said.
"Ok.. "
"I also want to kiss you every minute of the day, but you don't seem to know what you want."
"I do now…"
We them fell into each other's lips, the kiss was long awaited by both of us. We unfortunately had to stop because class was starting soon. She left, winked at me making me smile.
"See you soon " she said in a flirtatious way.