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Oh for fuck’s sake. I cursed in my head. She was probably going to talk about my fucking grades. Who cares? I’m not a nerd.

Me and my friend Haley were just yapping all lesson, not paying any mind to Miss Norwich who was trying to give us an education.

At the end of the lesson I had to stay behind so I remained in my seat.

“Meet me at our usual spot babe!” Haley says as she blows me a kiss and waves goodbye. I sigh as it is now only me and Miss Norwich in the classroom. At least she’s my favourite teacher. Probably cause she barely cared about what I did. She had the “if you don’t want to do something I’m not going to make you do it” mindset.

She took a seat in the chair in front of me, I look up from my phone and she’s got a sad look on her face.

“Y/N, I know I’ve let you just sit about for the past few months and do nothing but, I’m worried about you. If you don’t pass my class you could be held back a year. And you’re a bright student, you just don’t have the right mindset.” Before I could even protest, she put her finger up to shush me.

“Which is why I’m going to give you a tutor. And I’ll be checking in with them to see if you’re actually doing the work. Got it?” I just simply nod. Which nerd am I going to have to spend most of my time with now?

“Can I at least know who?” I really hope it wasn’t one of the creeps who always stared at my tits. They gave me the creeps.

“Dave Lizewski.” Who the fuck is that? I raise a brow at her, silently asking to elaborate.

“He’s actually waiting outside right now.” She turns her head to the door and calls his name. A few seconds later David or whatever his name is comes into the classroom. I give him a quick scan and…

He’s not that bad.

Too bad he’s a nerd. Dating him would ruin my reputation for me. And I’m not ruining what I’ve done for myself.

“Now that you two have met, you can go and plan the days and times of the tutoring. And Y/N, you’re a smart girl… And I’m pretty sure you know it too.” She gave me a warm smile as I gathered my things and walked out of the classroom, David closely following behind me.

“David, before we walk any further and ruin my social life,” I quickly write my number and address down on a piece of paper and shove it into his chest, “Here is my number and address, just text me what times are good for you and I’ll see if they’re good for me. Got it?”

He nodded with a goofy ass smile on his face, I quickly turned around and went on my way to meet Haley.

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“Oh my god! You poor thing!” Haley practically threw herself at me to give me a hug.

“I know right! I’m just going to ask him to do it for me and lie. Am I fuck spending time with that nerd.” I don’t know why I lied to Haley. Probably because she’d just go on and on and on about how awful it was that I’d given him my address.

“Anyways. You still up for the party this Friday?” A smile immediately painted its way onto my face. I obviously said yes and then our conversations went off from there.

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“You got her number?!” Todd was in disbelief that Dave got the hottest girl in school’s number. Dave nodded as he showed him and Marty the piece of paper.

“No way.” Todd and Marty’s eyes were as big as golfballs. Dave felt pretty proud of himself. Albeit he only got Y/N’s number because he has to tutor her. He still had a little bit of pride because he thought she was drop dead gorgeous.

“I don’t know if I should text her though, cause she seemed to already hate me.” Dave twiddles the piece of paper between his fingers.

“Probably because she thinks talking to you is social suicide.” Todd says as he takes a bite of his disgusting looking meatloaf. Dave looks up at him, kinda hurt.

“Well that’s a bit far don’t you think Todd?” Dave says as he begins to gather his things and then walks away from his two friends.

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It was now Friday, after school. Dave hadn’t messaged you yet. But you didn’t care. You were too busy getting ready for the party.

You dry your hair and then walk up to your wardrobe to decide what to wear. After about 20 minutes of just silently standing in front of your wardrobe in a towel, you decide on a short red dress with spaghetti straps. It barely covered your arse.

As you sat down to start putting your makeup on, you heard the doorbell ring. Seeing as your dad and sisters weren’t home you had to answer the door.

When you opened the door, you saw Dave with his bike at the side of him. Your eyes widened in shock. What the fuck was he doing here?

“David? What are you doing here?” He set his bike down to the side and squeezed the strap of his backpack.

“I-I messaged you that I was coming at 5 today. Did you not get my message?” Shit. So that was the unknown number who I deleted off my phone.

“Oh shit yeah. Erm, lemme just message Haley saying my dad grounded me. I was going to go to a party with her tonight.” I paused and we just stood there. Wait… Where the fuck are my manners?

“Oh shit, sorry. Come in. Is it alright if you tutor me in my room? Everywhere else I can hear the electricity and it aggravates me.” Dave chuckled a little then nodded, his smile was kinda cute. What? No. Do not think that Y/N.

You lead him up to your room and go straight to your bed to sit on it so that you can message Haley you can’t come anymore because your dad grounded you.

Dave looks around your room and then when his eyes landed on you they widened. He hadn’t realised you were wearing such a short dress. He couldn’t take his eyes off you, how your curves were perfectly visible due to the tightness of the dress, how the colour perfectly compliments your complexion.

“Earth to David?” You waved your hand in front of him, he looked like he had lost all power to his brain. He shook his head, getting himself out of the trance he’d put himself in.

“I-It’s Dave. Just Dave.” You raise an eyebrow at him as you adjust your position on your bed.

“Well, just Dave. I’m going to go get changed so you don’t drool again. And so that I’m comfier. The fabric of this dress is driving me crazy.” You walk up to your drawers and grabbed some clothes, then as you walk out the door you brush your shoulder against Dave’s “accidentally”.

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You and Dave are both sat on your bed, he’s trying to help you but it’s just not going into your head. More going one ear then out the other.

“For fuck’s sake! Why does this have to be so fucking hard?” You throw your book across the room in anger. Dave immediately budges closer.

“Y/N, it’s okay. Maybe I’m not teaching you the right way… And like Miss Norwich said, you’re a smart girl. You probably just learn a different way from other people.” I looked up at Dave, he was already smiling at me in the sweetest way I have ever seen.

“I have no clue what way I’ll actually learn though. I’m surprised I wasn’t held back in 6th grade. Teachers used to think I was mentally challenged.” Now you were crying, not because you were sad, because school never worked out for you. You were never taught in a way you would learn.

That’s why you started hanging out with Haley and her friends, teachers started to just leave you to it. Until Miss Norwich asked Dave to tutor you.

You wipe your tears away and lean back onto your pillow. You look to Dave and point your finger at him.

“Not a word of this to anyone.”