chapter : 3

Marilyn POV .

"Are you done staring?"

"No… NO! I mean I wasn't staring! I was searching… bandages , s-see my finger i-its bleeding s-so …"

I mentally slapped myself for stuttering so bad in front of him, he looked at me with raised eyebrows and chuckled playfully, making my heart to run a marathon,

"Bandages are not on my chest tho"

"I told you i wasn't looking at you"

I said with the heat rushing up to my cheeks, this is so embarrassing!! He caught me checking him out. He was looking at me with an amusing smirk on his face and I could no longer meet with his eyes, too blushy to even look at …

"It's here. The thing you want"

He pointed at his side , where the small table stood. I went there and the space beside the table wasn't enough for two and yet he didn't moved an inch , the close proximity with the half naked Xavier was too much for me, as I had to hold my breath until I took the bandage and was about to ran out of the room but suddenly he came in front of me, causing me to bump into his naked chest.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to -"

"It's fine"

He whispered close to my left ear as his warm breath brushed through my skin and I felt shiver running through my entire body. Then he patted my head as if I'm a toddler. I couldn't take any more of the awkwardness of the situation and hurriedly went away.

"What was that? That was so close, god my heart!"

I placed my hand on my chest to calm my racing heart , when suddenly someone shoved their hand on my shoulder and side hugged me, nearly tackling me to the ground.

"Hey there little kitten, what's the matter? Why are you looking so lost? Did you saw a ghost or something ? "

"Rayle! How many times I have to tell you , don't startle me like this! You're gonna make me fall someday"

"Fall for me?"

I was scolding the boy but he was just smiling cheekily. Apparently, me and Rayle became the bestest friends, we don't have any romantic feelings towards each other but we always tease and flirt playfully.

"Falling for you? Not even in your dreams"

I rolled my eyes at him and he laughed loudly , he's always so loud .

After the bell rung,we went to our respective classrooms,

"Can you share the book for today? I forgot mine in the locker"

I asked Xavier politely as I forgot to bring my book but instead of any answer, he just glared at me …. Why is this guy always looking at me as if he wants to murder me! Like he was all ok at the infirmary, what happened now?

"Can you move a bit, there's no space here "

I told Xavier who just sighed and kept his eyes on the bord, totally ignoring me.

"Xavier, move your books. There is no place for mine"

I said again but what he did after that was unexpected,

"Are you crazy! How can you throw away my books? "

I shouted a little. For others books may be just a bunch of papers but for me they are the source of information and I respect education very much, you can not throw away such important things like that.

"Like this"

He said and was about to do the same with my other book but I held his hand , stopping him for doing so ,

"You think you can stop me little angel?"

The sudden Nickname surprised me but I whimpered in pain when he pushed my hand away without any effort and I landed on my butt with a loud thud, that was so childish of him.

"That hurts! What is wrong with you?"

By now, all the students and our teacher's attention was on us , some were laughing on me while few were feeling bad,

"Marilyn! Stop disturbing my class , if you can't study then leave"

I felt myself crying the way the teacher said that. It was clearly not my fault and yet she put all the blame on me.

"But it was Xavier I didn't -"

"Enough! Leave before I give you detention"

I knew there is no point in arguing as she won't say anything to Xavier, now I understand What Tylor said was true. I left giving a glare to Xavier who just started at me blankly.

After that day, things were going downhill for me. Xavier would do every possible thing to tease me or provoke me and make fun of me, he would throw my books, hide my assignments, steal my notes and make a fuss in the class where teachers would only punish me. My grades were getting low from the amount of complaints I have got and notes I have lost. Even in the exam my performance was going bad,at this rate I was afraid I might fail.

"I just wish I knew why, what did I do to receive this from him ?"

In all this chaos , the only good thing was that he would never trouble me out of the classroom. I was still safe in the cantine and campus.

"What happened Marilyn, you look exhausted"

Tylor was worried about me so was Rayle,

"I don't know what to do Ty, he's making things hard for me to study! I can't afford to fail! I have worked so hard to be here in this university"

"Don't worry too much, I know you're a bright student. You'll be fine"

"I hope so"

I put my head on the table and closed my eyes, I was peacefully sitting until,

"Hahahah… Rayle stop! Stop tickling!"

"Cheer up kitten. Everything will be fine"

After like five minutes of laughter, he stopped tickling me , my mood changed and I was happy a little until Xavier enter the cantine,

"So annoying"

He side eyed me and said louder enough to make me hear him,

"Don't mind him"

"Hmm"

We were eating but my focus was on Xavier's table , they were talking about boxing gloves and Xavier was showing his. His gloves looked old but the way he was looking at them with a sparkle in his eyes, they must be very important for him, seriously his passion for boxing is insane…

"I wonder if someone would spoil his boxing gloves, what would be his reaction?"

"Don't even joke about it Marilyn, he's gonna eat that person alive. He doesn't even let anyone touch them, not even his friends or coach. He literally take care of them as if it's his baby"

"Wait, did I say that out loud?"

"Yes you did , now common let's buy some smoothies"

Before my answer Rayle held my hand and dragged me with him. On our way back we were goofing around and at that time, I accidentally dropped my smoothie on someone and for my luck that person was Xavier and worse… the whole smoothie spilled on his boxing gloves …… oh god I'm so dead.

"I'm sorry Xa-"

"Run!!"

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