Wild Baleigh Love

My jerk

Oh God, this is the exam week, our minds can't be any occupied. A week has passed since we left the fair with Bally. We've been getting along quite well and I hope this will be it for us, no more riling each other up.

I'm done with my first two exams for today. I started with literature which was really fair and I've just finished my geography exam it was just okay too. So I'm seated on the bench outside our exam hall waiting for Tiffany and Camille who were at the community jacaranda since they had no exam when I was in my geography exam.

As I'm about to reach for my phone from my backpack some familiar cologne stings my nose. I bob my head up only to see a flash of a moving shadow, I tilt it to my left and I see Ballice padding slowly to the direction of the cafeteria. s**t, how did I forget we had exams in the same hall.

I turn my phone screen on and a message pops up immediately.

Tif: Meet us at the cafeteria, we're already there, I'm sorry we were lazy to come pick you?.

I groan tiredly typing a message back as I stand up.

Me: I swear I'll kill you, I would have castrated your balls if you had one, you're lucky bitches. I've been sitting here waiting for you, ten minutes now?.

A message goes off from Camille seconds later.

Cam: Don't kill us Tee baby bum?, tacos for you on my bill.?

I grin widely at her message and I find myself pattering so fast towards the cafeteria after dropping my phone back in the backpack. Yes Tacos! I really miss them. Wait Tee baby bum? So that's my new nickname? Wait till I get there. That bugger damn!

Friday was the last time I saw Ballice on our biology class. So today is on Monday but I feel like it's been weeks since I saw him. I'm a foot away from him at the moment.

He's screaming black as he shambles lazily towards the cafeteria his hands shoved into his jean pockets. He's in black from head to toe and I'm starting to question myself if there's anything to do with his outfit today. Maybe there is a meaning to it. Black leather jacket on top of black t-shirt, jet Black jeans hugging him tightly and black leather boots. His hair is in a clean quiff, for the first time I see it not messy, miracle.

I tiptoe quietly and I slightly jump wrapping my hands on his eyes to blind him and I finally stand on my toes controlling my breathing so that I won't give him any suspicions. So childlike. He stills taking a sharp intake of breath and then he relaxes chuckling lightly.

"Princess, I know your scent." He gabs turning me around in one swift move and now I'm standing in front of him flushed.

"Jerk!" I snort pulling my hand away from his.

"Whose jerk?" He smirks tightening his grip on my so hand which I used to blind him.

"Uhmmm... your dad's jerk, maybe?" His face falls and he tightens his grip much more. "Bally ouch! You're hurting me!" I let out a loud cry but he doesn't budge. He's glaring down on me his tall frame towering over my pathetic one. "And you should know that we're on the middle of the hallway."

"Who cares? I've not done anything toxic or s****l, why would it bother you?"

"But you're hurting me Bally." I chortle in a whisper curling my lips down as I deem up at him. He drops his hand immediately and a frown appears on his face. He then draws me closer to him and he wraps his hands around me my head hitting on his rocky surfer chest.

"I'm sorry, didn't mean to hurt you, it's because you're stubborn. Let me see your wrist." He pulls away taking my hand in his and he starts scanning it. " I forgot how delicate your skin is, s**t, it's reddening!"

I gaze up on his tensed expression and I burst out laughing. "What?" He scowls down at me but I shake my head still laughing.

"You should have seen your face, you looked like you've just killed a f*****g being!" I exclaim trying to control my laughter.

"It's not funny see your wrist, does it hurt?" He's still wearing a worried look on his face.

"I'm okay Bally, see." I brush the skin on my wrist with my fingers and the colour turns normal.

"God, you're so delicate, see!" His eyes pops out in surprise and I push at his chest laughing.

"C'mon it's not delicate, that's how everyone is. Anyway let's get going Cam and Tif are waiting for me." I pull his hand and he reluctantly lags behind me before stopping.

" Wait, I'm not letting it go, whose jerk?"

" Bally!"

" Whose jerk?" He persists.

Ugh...

" Let's go!"

"Whose jerk??"

"Okay." I surrender throwing my hands in the air as I smile cheekily at him. "My jerk."

"Yes!" A grin bursts on his face as he wraps his arms on my body.

"You know stealing hugs from me on the hallway is not helping." I prattle gurning deviously on him.

"The least you can do is hug me back or I'll kiss you right here, you should reconsider the latter one by the way. If you've not noticed it yet, we were the first ones to get out of that geography exam. Others are absolutely shuffling contents from their thick skulls still."

I can't fathom what he's thinking right now. My heart picks up it's beats so fast that I fear it will jump out of its shell and my breath becomes ragged from his words. Get a grip Tleigh! I slowly wrap my arms around his waist as I still my head on his chest inhaling his blowing scent trying to steady my heart beats. I feel his chest rambling and I look up to see him chuckling silently. "What?" I blurt out dropping my hands as I take a step back.

"Are you afraid that I'll kiss you here or do you want me to kiss you?" I dearth, yearn crave and want it. But that's not what I answer him , I awkwardly shake my head my cheeks tinting.

"You're not afraid or what do you mean? You don't want to kiss me?" His smirk grows and I now want to slap it off his face.

"Bally let's go, and don't you dare go there again, you know what you're doing, don't you? It's so peculiar." I grimace trying to rub the blush off my face.

"What's bizarre? Us or the situation here?" He arches a brow at me questioningly and I huff in annoyance.

"Both Bally! Let's go, we're peculiar and yeah the situation is so bizarre here, it's strange...ughh I mean odd, whatever let's go!" I almost yell feeling frustrated and he beams down at me pulling me from the balcony railing on the hallway. I don't know how I found myself leaning on it.

"To be honest, I like to see you grumpy, worked up, riled up, angry, mad, frustrated, those sorts of emotions swarming all over again inside you. But I do want to make you feel better too, so c'mon let's go I'm not going to kiss you." He drawls almost in a whisper and I feel like he should have kissed me, I don't care really. I'm just shy or maybe naive? I've been relishing what we had at the park under the rain. It felt too good to be real sincerely.

"Atleast not now." He adds as we enter the cafeteria and my nostrils flare up at the mixed scent of different foods. Wait atleast not now? Hell yeah atleast not now, I grin pulling away from his hold as I bite at my lower lip my eyes drifting to our circle, the area where we usually do take our meals.

"Uhmmm... will you be joining us? Cam and Tif are over there at our usual spot." I ask praying silently for him to say yes.

"Whether you could have asked or not, I was going to." And there goes my jerk! I roll my eyes sauntering towards our table as he lags beside me his hands stuffed into his pockets as usual.

"Well I was just asking, wait are those your friends there?" I point at the table which consists of more than seven people now. "How in a flash has those people settled their asses around our table? Where have they emerged from? I didn't see them there when we entered in here."

"Yeah that is Jelton and our crew. I didn't know they were taking lunch on your table too." He replies as we get closer and all eyes at the table settles on us.

"Are we the meal you've been waiting for all this time?" Ballice asks as he drags two chairs from the table beside ours. "Move your asses along with your chairs." He kicks the leg of Jelton his chair making him groan.

"Slowly man, what's with you? I'm not the one who set those damn exams!" Jelton rattles moving his chair.

"Oh trust me, there was nothing there, I'm here and the exam was supposed to take two and half hours, we started it at 12:30 p.m and it's 1:25 p.m, just f**k off." Ballice snarls at him and Jelton throws his head back laughing, really laughing.

"God, that's too much time, you should have gone at it for just thirty minutes buddy, if you're really a true genius." He witters through laughters and Ballice throws daggers at him making him throw his hands in the air in surrender. "Okay okay I'm sorry."

"You better be, infact I was done in thirty minutes, somebody dragged me behind on my way here in the hallway." He moves his eyes to me and I give him a hard glare which makes him chuckle silently as he winks turning his head back to the table. I sit beside him on a chair which he has just dragged beside his. In front of us is Tiffany, Cam, Morgan and some girl who looks so familiar to me. Beside Bally is Jelton then Dubel, then Nard. I can still remember them from the party.