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Just another Monday in biology and the time seemed to pass by slowly for all the students, that is until the teacher caught them off guard. "Alright class I've decided that instead of a midterm paper I'm going to give you all an assignment" this earns a collective groan from the class. "Don't worry I'll be splitting you all into groups of two and you will start to work on it today in class"
The students all looked slightly more relieved that they would be in pairs but Nic just seemed annoyed as she went and sat next to Conrad at the back of the class. He was the last person she wanted to be paired with. "Don't worry I'll do all the work but could you at least try and look busy so we don't fail" the annoyance was clear in her tone.
"Don't flatter yourself blondie. I'm not putting the fate of my grades in your hands" he said as he opened his biology book, it was the only subject he seemed to pay attention to at this point. Not that he really needed to, he was doing well in school even without studying he just seemed to have a naturally high IQ.
"My name's not blondie" she rolled her eyes.
"Well maybe if you had actually introduced yourself before being a bitch I could use your actual name"
"Nicolette" she replied as if he had asked her a question.
"Now that wasn't so hard was it?" he smiled a little. "I'm Conrad by the way"
"Let's just get this done so we can go back to ignoring each other's existence shall we?"
They got to work, Conrad was strangely intrigued by her, she was different to the other girls at school, they all annoyed him and all though Nic got to him it was in a different kind of way. He wanted to get to know her and the fact that she was beautiful also helped things. Some of his friends looked over to him making obscene gestures and glancing at Nic, which annoyed Conrad more than it should have, he felt sort of protective of her which was strange. He didn't even know this girl..why should he care...No. He didn't care, he wouldn't let himself care because he had learned the hard way that caring only gets you hurt and he wasn't ready to get hurt.. not again.
As everyone filed out of the classroom Conrad stopped Nic, they were last out. She looked at him clearly bothered that she would be late for her next class but also a hint of excitement. "I meant what I said about doing my part. We can meet in the park after school tomorrow" then he walked off before she even had time to respond..