Chapter 2

He was standing in front of the door and placed the bike beside it under a shade of the roof.

"I'll go home.", he said calmly but I stopped him. I made him sat at the small chair and I searched for a clean towel.

"I know that you'll get cold before you get home." I began. I placed our cup of coffee that he bought to the small table and I gave him a clean towel.

"I'm sorry if I have to offer my small apartment for you. I know that you're rich-" He cut my words and smiled at me.

"It's okay. It looks nice." He looked around and I remembered my things on my study table. It was a dart board with his picture. I used to pin the darts on it when I got annoyed by him.

"I understand." I think that he smiled with disappointment. He dried his hair with a serious look and I thought that he looked sexy.

I bit my lower lip. What am I thinking?

"I'm sorry." I sincerely removed the darts and his picture.

I went to my closet to find a shirt for him and I found a blue shirt. I turned at him but he was too close at me. He pulled my ponytail and he started drying my hair with a towel. My heart started to pound heavily. I gulped.

My hands were trembling at his presence. Why did I react like this?

He stopped drying my hair and he got my hands.

"You're cold.", he whispered. He brushed his hands to mine and breathe on it for three times.

My face felt hard when I saw his chest with the thin cloth of his uniform.

"Why are you blushing?" He laughed and he turned his look at his chest. He covered it with his arms and we looked away with each other.

"I didn't mean it." I wasn't looking at him because of embarrassment. I offered him the blue shirt that I was holding and he started unbuttoning his uniform. I closed my eyes and I saw his flexing small muscles when he was putting on the blue shirt.

He looked at me and I closed my eyes. "Did you see it?" He smiled teasing me and he winked.

"There's nothing with your small muscles." I rolled my eyes at him.

Wait, there was something weird. Why did I let him to enter this apartment?

"I'm dead." I whispered to myself.

"Why?" he asked behind me.

"Hainz!" I heard someone calling my name outside. "Hainz! Open the door!" I pushed him inside my closet.

"What's happening?"

"Just hide before she gets you killed." I said while trembling with fear. I fixed myself and I opened the door.

"Did I just hear that there's a boy sneaked here with you?", the landlady asked.

"I think you're wrong. May be, it was your imagination." I lied with a smile on my face.

"He's the first boy you let in here. Is he your boyfriend?" Her tone went high and she added, "I want to meet him before your father gets him killed."

"No. I'm the only one here." I tried to make her believe but she tried looking at my things and found nothing.

"Okay. I'll go ahead." She turned her back at me and I said good-bye. 

I locked the door and I pulled him out of the closet. I found him smiling secretly.

"Did I hear her, right?", he asked me while he was crazily dancing in front of me.

"No. She said nothing." I shook my head while he was turning around me.

"I heard her that she thought that I am your boyfriend." He was happily making his dance moves.

"Why are you happy?"

"Nothing. I'll be more happy if we'll be-" I tapped his head and rolled my eyes.

"In your dreams." I whispered to his right ear.

"Someday you'll see. You'll never know what will happen in the future.", he said with a soft voice. I didn't know where to fond his guts to tell me that.

He went home when the sunset came. The heavy rain stopped and I have checked around and there was no trace of the landlady and my neighbors.

I sighed with a relief.

His presence bothered me the whole night and it made me not to sleep.

It was really nothing!

Yes, it was really nothing!

He was nothing to me.

I was annoyed at myself. Why would he keep messing up in my head? This should not be happening.

I played a music on my old cellphone until I get fast asleep.

I was surprised at how I looked at the mirror. My panda eyes were getting worst. I bit my lower lip and I was lazy to take a bath.

How could I face him like this? No! I shouldn't be thinking of him.

I was walking alone and I saw him walking with his friends. They were laughing and teasing each other. I hid at the nearby tree and I sighed when they first entered the gate.

I bumped to a guy again and I did not saw his face. I bit my lower lip and started to walk.

"Tell me, who's with you yesterday?", Aya asked with her teasing smile.

"Nobody." I frowned at her.

I heard the four boys making some noise while entering the classroom. I wish that I could hide inside the floor. I put my arms at my desk and buried my head there.

"What happened?", she whispered.

"What happened?" I heard someone from the four boys said. I heard their steps beside me and someone touched my forehead. I moved his hand and I buried my head again."

She's hot.", he whispered. He was breathing heavily.

"She's hot?", Aya and the three boys asked.

"I told you, she's your type after all." His friend gave a quick smirk.

"Stop it. She's having a fever!" Aya shouted when she touched my forehead.

"What are you doing?" I was nervous when he put the coat of his uniform on my waist and the three boys helped him to carry me. It was a piggyback ride.

There were few times he had made it to me when I was sick. I remembered how worried he was even he did not convey it. I couldn't deny to myself that he was sincere on helping me in times of this situation.

We were five years old when he started teasing me. He was always making fun of me that was why I cried many times. He would hurt me physically but he would regret after all when I cried out loud.

He looked like a bully but he never let others bully me. He once saved me from bullies out there.

I was bullied by three boys. They wanted my money but I had nothing at all. He saved me from them. He called the policeman patrolling his car.

"Are you hurt?" he asked worriedly.

I cried out loud and then, he put out the band aid from his pouch. He sanitized my wound with alcohol that made me hurt. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. Just let me try again."

I looked at him amused. He looked like a grown man. He blew my wounded knee and he put the band aid on it. He smiled at me and patted my head once.

"Are you okay?" he questioned and I nodded. "I'll walk you home."

"Are you okay?" He was standing in front of me. He seemed to be worried but I know that he was hiding it.

"Yes. How about our experiment?" I worried about my participation on the experiment.

"Don't think about it. I went to our teacher and made it as our assignment." He smirked while crossing his arms.

"Then?"

"She agreed." He sat beside me and I heard the noise outside and I know that his three friends were there. He quickly stood up and opened the door.

"Look, who's the superhero?" They were teasing him again and I secretly smiled.

"Hainz!", Aya called me. She gave me a biscuit and an orange juice. "I hope you'll get well soon. Just tell me if you need something, okay?"

"Okay. Thank you." We smiled at each other and the four boys said their goodbyes at us and we waved back at them.

"He looked awesome when he carried you." She was giggling, closing her eyes and she smiled at me.

"Who?"

"Nick", she answered while smiling like an idiot. I sat quickly.

"He carried me?" I was shocked. I tried to remember things and it was truly happened.

"Why?", she asked curiously.

"Nothing." I shook my head.

"Just tell me. Is there something between both of you?" She was teasing me and it made me blushed.

"No." I looked away. "He just helped me."

"I know that he acted like a gentleman and look, I saw you together in the rain. It looks so cute-" I covered her mouth and I closed my eyes.

"Just stop it." I whispered. "Be careful. Someone might heard you outside."

She nodded and she told me that he watched my temperature for the whole day instead of the school nurse.

I thought of him as really good in his own ways.