Chapter 4

It was a new week in Riverdale Highschool. Claire walked into her classroom as usual and the chattering went down as she was the topic being discussed as usual. She scrunched her eyebrows, rolled her eyes and sat on her seat. The chattering continued, she glanced at her side and Lucas was studying with his black earpiece in both his ears. She was quite surprised to see him ever studying.

“Hey there" she tapped him, smiled from her eyes to her cheek and waved at him. Lucas glanced up and looked back down to his book. Claire thought..”What a douche, I should be doing the ignoring!". Lucas sitting beside the windows while the morning sun shine down at him made him look so heavenly as Claire thought.

“Can you stop staring?" Lucas said as Claire jumped out of her thoughts and nervously answered him, “I ww-wasn’t, just continue". She awkwardly adjusted her shirt and faced forward. A dainty smile fell on his lips.

The history teacher came in for the first, period and was evaluating the students on the assessment given to them. Claire and Lucas were busy arguing about their leg space, whether it should be inside the desk or outside. “Ech ehmm” the teacher cleared her throat and scrunched up her nose in irritation. “Stand up!, Miss Claire and Mister Lucas", Claire slowly stood up slightly dragging her skirt lower as she was bowing her head apologetically. “Get out of my class this minute" her voice commanding strictness. Lucas,on the other hand who already knew what would happen, just stood up and left the class.

“No apologies will be necessary, Miss Claire" she interrupted. She dragged her feet in embarrassment with her head laid low as she left the classroom, she could have sworn she heard Helena snicker from behind. “That witch" she muttered bitterly.

Claire walked a bit in the hallway but couldn't find Lucas anywhere. “Where could he be, I got into this mess because of him" she said to herself, fisting her hands together. Lucas was at the basketball court, just seating at the bleachers enjoying sausage and cola.

Claire's POV

I walked a bit and decided to check out the basketball court, the view from there is always calming. I strolled into the court and closed the doors behind me. The court echoed every step I took,I could hear my own breathing. I looked outside through the 32-inch window and sighed. The strands of hair on my face stood as the chilly wind flew across me. I heard footsteps approaching and turned around to see but there was no one. “Hey" Lucas said standing by my left, and I fell to the ground in fear.

“What is actually wrong with you?!, can't you give me like a heads up or something”. Lucas stretched out his hands and I took it. “Losiento, mi amor" he said. “Gwenchana" I replied.

Lucas let out a hearty laugh and for the first time I saw the glimmer in his eyes and his voice was the loudest I've ever heard. " You really are something else, I apologized in Spanish and you replied in Korea” he said mid-laughter.

"I don't know much Spanish but I do know how to say I'm fine in Korean “ I said as I began to laugh too. He moved a bit closer to me and bowed his head to the same level as mine. " W-what are you doing? “ I always stutter whenever he gets close to me. He smiled, " does your stuttering come and go?" He laughed a little and it somehow did something to me. He slightly moved my hair on my face and put it behind my ear. I instinctively closed my eyes and he said, “You can open your eyes now, Chica”. I embarrassingly opened my eyes and moved to the other side.

The bell rang for lunch. “Bye Luke" I waved off as I began to walk out of the court. Lucas pulled me by my wrist and I ended up on his chest. He slowly put his arms around my waist and looked down at me, “Luke?" He raised his eyebrows and laughed. “Yeah, I shortened Lucas" I said staring back at his blue eyes. “I don't like the way I feel when you call me that, just call me Lucas" he said with his eyes having a sense of seriousness. Maybe there's a story connected to that name, I guess I'll just stop.

He let go of me and left the court in long strides. “God, he's so tall.". “Heyyy Claire, how'd it go?" Bianca asked as we sat at our table in the cafeteria. “How did what go?" I asked, wondering if she saw Luk.. sorry Lucas and I. “You know, leaving the class. You looked devastated when you were leaving" she responded. “Yeah I know right, I hate absentee classes. I don't want to ruin my perfect attendance" I said as I munched down on my omelette sighing.

“Well at least you didn't ruin it, she still marked your name. Your good deeds didn't go to waste" Sophie said excitedly feeding me more rice. Bianca and Sophie looked at their faces and looked back at me with excitement written all over their faces.

“What's this all about?" I asked, getting excited too. “Sleepoverrrr!" they both screamed. " Hey guys, keep it down “ I said, shushing them. They were so excited about the sleepover, I agreed obviously. “So, we're having it at my place at 7pm” Sophie said. " Ugh Sophie, you have creepy trees at night you know “ Bianca grumbled as I laughed. " Don't worry, Bianca. We're the three mukeeters, we'll protect you” I said mid-laughter. " It's musketeers, stupid” Sophie said as she began to laugh too.

The bell rang for the next period and we hurriedly rushed to class. As usual, Lucas was either late to this man's class or he wasn't even coming. 15 minutes into the class, I was constantly looking at the door. "Eh ehmm, Miss Claire. Are you waiting for someone because you seem to not be concerned about what I'm teaching?”. No, hot teacher. Just let me watch in peace,will you?.. I thought to myself as I just stared at him. “Miss Claire!" He shouted as I jumped up in fear. Everyone was laughing, “did I say that out loud" I thought. “Yes you did and so are you leaving my class this minute." He said pointing to the door. “Ouuu, looks like someone has been slacking" Helena commented rudely. I sighed and packed my things and left.

I was soliloquizing as I felt pretty shaken up as I was sent out of the class the second time today and this time was more embarrassing. The whole class heard me calling him “Hot". I kept cringing at those words until I saw Lucas looking right and left, I quickly hid behind the lockers. When there was no one in sight, he entered into the janitor's closet. What was this weirdo hiding, drugs?. I need to know. I quickly ran across the hallway and opened the janitor's closet and walked in closing the door behind me.

I swallowed as I was hit with the sight of Lucas shirtless. He was treating a wound on his chest, surprisingly he had a lot of scars. He was startled a bit as he looked behind him to see me. I swallowed again unconsciously and he noticed. “Jo ha e?” He asked. "Ani, Aniyo" I answered like I was on remote control. He just smirked and continued patching up his wound. I didn't want to ask about it because I didn't want to get involved.

I went to the first aid box he was using, behind him. He looked back at me and stumbled on the stool. He fell backwards and I was caught in the fall. He put his palms at the back of my head as he fell on me on the ground. My face kept twitching, he put my hair behind my ear again. I could hear my heartbeat. I coughed and he quickly stood up and turned forward, leaning on the table. He looked back at me again and handed me a shirt. I was perplexed. “Why are you giving me this?" I asked. “Uhm, you have a situation there" he said trying not to look as he pointed at my chest. I noticed the tips were all obvious, I quickly used the shirt to cover up.

The air was quite tense, he quickly turned to wear his shirt. “Why are you here?” I asked, trying to lessen the tension. " As you can see, I was treating my wound." he said, buttoning up his shirt. “By the way, are you okay seeing me shirtless?” He asked, raising his eyebrows. " Yeah I am, no big deal" I answered nonchalantly. "I'm not like those girls that are always all over you”. " I didn't ask that, Claire.” he said, tucking his shirt into his trousers. "So that means I wouldn't mind seeing you without a shirt too, you know?". I immediately stood up and threw my shoe at him, “You pervert!". He dodged it and started laughing, “you were the one who started it, my chest is very personal and you barged in on me. So I could do the same too. No offense." he said mid-laughter.

" Oh,I take so much offense!” I said crossing my arms together. "I'm sorry then, about our project..” he asked. " Oh yeah, I've got some files prepared. Once I'm done compiling, we can check it for errors.“ I answered. "Okay same “ he said.

The janitor burst in and exclaimed upon seeing both of us so sweaty and Lucas fixing up his tie and me covering up. "You perverts!, get out”. We ran out and started laughing. "Oh my days, he totally got the wrong idea.” I said laughing. " I know right.“ Lucas answered back. We were back in the court, laying on the floor and breathing heavily.

“It's the second time we're coming here together, weird." I said. “That's on you, Chica. I don't care" he said repulsively. I shot up and folded my legs facing him, “well I do!, you douche". He came closer and rested his head on my folded legs, “Whatever, I'm tired".

“Excuse you?" I said but Lucas had already slept. I watched for a minute how he looked like a child as he slept. I gently caressed his face and quickly took back my hand, stop it Claire.. I thought to myself. I was dozing already and my head fell on his and I slept off.

Lucas’s POV

I slightly opened my eyes and felt a heavy weight on me. I looked up and saw Claire resting her head on mine, asleep. I stayed there a bit, I felt warmth in her embrace. I thought to myself, she's just a human. But I didn't care for now, I missed warmth. I quickly snapped out of it as I heard footsteps approaching. I carefully held her head as I stood up and carried her to a corner. She woke up and was about to speak, I quickly pinned her to the wall and covered her mouth. I looked outside and saw students coming inside the court. It was time for P.E. I looked back at Claire and she was staring at me with those eyes of hers, I quickly remembered what Darren told me and I examined her eyes again, I couldn't see much in the dark room.

I noticed someone coming towards the corner and I gave Claire eye signals and pressed on her more. “Bose!, the ball is here. Come back" luckily, the P.E teacher called. It wasn't intentional to press on her so much, I removed my hand from her mouth and she instinctively launched her head forward. With that, her lips met mine for a brief second as I immediately stepped backward. We both just rested our backs on the walls and waited for the class to be over.

When the class was over, Claire called out as I was leaving, " Lucas..”. " Hmm?”. " I'm sorry for what I did back there.” she said, bowing her head and curling her toes. “Oh yeah, it's fine. As long as it wasn't intentional, I've got nothing to be worried about." I lied, it wasn't fine. She's human,I can't let her go close to me like that anymore. I have to focus on finding my Luna, sorry Luna.