The Bet

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Giovannas pov: After lunch, I had my fourth period, which is history with the one and only Katherine. I had to find a reason to talk to her, but I couldn't think
Of anything. I walk to my seat and wait for her to walk in. I write down the date and my name on my notebook and start
Drawing whatever comes to mind.

As I'm almost done with the simple sketch, I feel her sit down beside me. As I'm trying to figure out what the fuck to talk about I hear her say "I like your drawing." I look at her and we lock eyes.
My eyes travel down to her lips, and I quickly pull them back to her eyes.

"Thank you, gorgeous." I reply with a smile. "Anytime, Giovanna." She said with a smirk. I've never heard her say my name. and I don't know why, but I liked it coming out of her mouth.

"Alright, class today We're going to be learning about the Gilded Age." I zone out the teacher and focus on how I'm going to start a conversation with Kat.

"What brought you back?" I ask turning to look at Katherine. "I missed all my friends and my boyfriend." She said with a blank expression on her face.

"Gabriel, right?" I ask, already knowing the answer, but I just want to keep talking her, she has a nice voice.
She hums in response and turns her attention back to the board. Writing something down.

My mind goes silent, and I just admire her. her lashes fluttering up and down as she copies something down on the board. Her soft pink lips, her pretty long brown hair gracefully laying on her shoulders. Her pretty nose and her freckles seem to be my favorite.

"You're staring." She says, smiling, still writing down notes. "You're just really pretty." I say, trying to get a reaction out of her. She sits down straight and looks me in the eyes, smirking. "Are you trying to flirt with me?" She asks, furrowing her eyebrows with that small smirk plastered on her face.

I give her a small laugh in return and just say, "What if I am? Ms. Halton." A small blush creeps up on her face and She Looks taken aback by what I just said as if she wasn't me expecting to be so bold. "Cat got your toung?" I say, looking at her from one eye to the other.

"You do know im straight, right?" She asks with a small smile. "Pshh were all at least a little gay." I say, shrugging my shoulders. "Not me." She says, giving me a sarcastic laugh. "If you say so, princess." The class goes by, and we don't talk again after that.

When the bell finally rings, Katherine starts packing her things in a hurry.
"Whats the hurry, princess?" I ask, standing up, swinging my backpack on one side. "Stop calling me that." She demands in a stern voice. "Why?"
I ask my eyebrows furrowing.

"Because I'm not fucking gay." She says looking me dead in the eyes. I just stand there looking at her as she speed walks out the classroom. That was something. I guess I'll have to take shit slow with her. Fuck.

I have 8th period with her. I'll have to apologize because now I feel like shit for
Making her feel uncomfortable.

The rest of the day went by pretty slow. As I was walking to my classes in the hallway me and Katherine kept making
Eye contact, but she would always look
Away, trying her best to avoid me.

8th period comes around, and I'm late as shit because I was smoking in the bathrooms and didn't realize the bell rung. That shit always happens to me.

I knock on the door, as the momment the bell rings, they close the doors on us.
The door opens, and I'm met with my English teacher, giving me an annoyed look. "Late again, Ms. Ramos."

She says, sitting down on her chair. God, she's annoying. "Sorry." Is all I say before sitting down and putting my right airpod on. I feel a tap on my shoulder, and I already know who it is.

"Hey, I'm sorry about earlier today. I wasn't trying to be rude or anything about your sexuality or mine. I was just uncomfortable with you flirting with me." Katherine apologized with an apologetic smile plastered on her face.

"Kat, you don't have to apologize. I'm sorry for flirting with you, knowing you have a boyfriend." I said, returning a smile. "It's all good, don't worry."

The rest of the period was free because I'm guessing Ms. Madeline was really going through it that week. Me and Katherine talked a bit about our classes together and how much we hated them.
She was pretty funny, and her voice was beautiful. I could never get tired of it.

"Shut up." Said Katherine laughing at my joke. God her laugh is so beautiful. "Your laugh is so pretty." I said admiring her.
She blushed but tried hiding it which just brought a smile to my face. She's so cute.

"Stop making me blush." She whined covering her face. "I just said you had a pretty laugh." I said laughing at her reaction. "yeah well, Ive never really been complimented on my laugh." She said calming down from laughing so hard.

Wow that's hard to believe. How could no one admire such a beautiful womans laugh.

"Thats insane, not even Gabriel?" I ask curious. "Nope, not even Gabriel." She said her smile becoming smaller but still not leaving her pretty face. "If I were yours and you mine, I would never stop admiring you and letting you know you're perfect." I said a little too honestly.

She looked me in the eyes and I looked at hers.

She snapped out of staring at me and just gave me an awkward smile. Fuck it I did it again. I made her feel uncomfortable.

"I'm sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable again Katherine, I didn't mean it to sound like that. I totally get it if you want me to get away from you." I said panicking. Truth is I didn't want to stay away from her. For the past hour I felt at ease with her.

"No don't worry you don't make me uncomfortable, thank you." She said smiling at me.

Just then the bell rang and it was time for dismissal. "I'll see you tomorrow, kat." I said giving her a smile. "See ya gio."

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