The Bad Boy's Thorn

Chapter Seven

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"You should stop comparing me to her, I'm a different person from this other Malia." I gaze at Yuta, he looks taken back by my words.

He keeps a blank face, "I don't know what you have against her, she's always been an amazing person - you should be honoured that you even remind me of her." he says icily, he was complimenting me.

"Well what do we have here? Two students ditching their lunch breaks to be in my class?" Our English literature teacher walks into the class with her arms crossed, Yuta looks at me as I purse my lips.

"We were going over notes, you see Yuta asked for my help so then we both entered your classroom in hopes of having a quiet study session." I lie smoothly as the teacher looked impressed by my words.

Her frown turns into a smile, "To think I thought good children don't exist, You two say otherwise." Yuta looks at me with an odd look, I shrug my shoulders as he plays along.

"Thank you, we try our best to stay on top of your assignments." Yuta gave her an eye smile, this boy has an amazing eye smile - any girl could faint by just looking at it.

The teacher fawns over his smile, "This is why I admire you Yuta, you're a hard working student - lead Malia to the same path as you!" she pats his back before taking a seat on her chair.

Yuta smirks before turning to face me, "I guess I could teach you a thing or two," I gape at his words, he chuckles before waving his words off. "I'm just kidding, I'd never." I scowl at his words.

"Whatever you say Yuta, so when should we start meeting up for your tutor sessions at your house?" I question as he ponders for a few seconds.

"How about today?" he offers, that was quite fast.

"I guess we could." I mumble, thinking about Yuta's mother. She probably remembers me, she's always liked me - she'd even ship me with Yuta.

"But Vincent will be there, he means no harm anyways. He would probably hear music as we study." Yuta explains as I nod my head. Vincent will be there? He doesn't even like acknowledging my presence for some reason, he's always ignoring me.

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"You took your time." Yuta was beside his car swinging his keys around, beside him was Vincent with his earphones plugged in once again - he acted like a total introvert.

"Sorry, Mrs Potter kept me back due to home room." I say as Yuta unlocks his car swiftly. Vincent takes a seat at the back seat, I decided to take shot gun since it would be totally awkward sitting next to him.

As I took a seat inside of Yuta's car I was hit with the smell of his amazing cologne, do all rank 1 guys smell good? Why didn't Dylan smell as good as this? He would smell like cheap axe sprays.

"Vincent shares the same homeroom with you and he told me that you were caught sleeping by Mrs Potter." I glance at Vincent through the rear view mirror, he had his eyes closed.

So he does acknowledge my presence. It's nice to know he doesn't ignore me completely.

"I did not fall asleep, I was just simply resting my eyes."

Yuta gives me an incredulous look, "Vincent told me that he heard you snoring, he found it very un lady like." I gasp at his words.

"I don't snore at all." I state bitterly, I turn to find Vincent laying his head on the window as he slept quietly. How can someone look so desirable when sleeping?

"It's funny joking around you like that, Vincent didn't say anything other than you sleeping. I'd doubt he would focus on a person longer than half a second." Yuta says as he pulled his car up to his road.

"Nice to know you were joking because I know for sure I do not snore." I say stubbornly as Yuta let out a very deep chuckle, he throws me a smirk before unlocking his car.

"Wake up Vincent for me." Yuta doesn't even wait for my response as he throws his car keys at me, I caught them easily as I looked at Vincent who seemed to be deep in sleep.

It's hard waking up someone, number one they'll kill you for ruining their beauty sleep and number two they'll kill you either way. I groan as I made my way towards Vincent's side of the car.

He was leaning on the window, if I opened the door he would fall out of the car. So instead I made my way towards the other side of the car, opening that door instead.

"Vincent, wake up." I say quietly, at this rate it will take me a leap year to wake this boy up. I get inside of the car, nervously tapping on his shoulder.

He groans, I widen my eyes as he flutters his eyes open. His face was dangerously close to mine as he looked at me in confusion for a few seconds before running his hand through his raven hair.

He opens his mouth to speak but he immediately shuts it looking at me, he nods his head at me blankly before opening the door to the window he was sleeping on. He walks out of the car instantly, leaving me alone outside.

What was his deal with me? He would never talk to me but he would talk to other people, it annoyed me a tad bit that he didn't bother uttering a single darn word to me. I ignore his cold shoulder towards me as I shut the door to Yuta's car, locking it straight after.

I make my way towards Yuta's house quietly, as I entered his home I was shocked. Memories hit me instantly, this was the house Yuta and I would play hide and seek in as children, we would also relax here and study with each other.

I glance at the floor, there were shoes neatly placed on the shelf. Yuta is asian, I guess it would be stupid to wear shoes inside an asian household. I sigh before taking off my shoes, leaving me in my socks.

Afterwards, I walked towards the living room after looking through the endless amounts of pictures in the hallway. I notice Yuta on his phone on a single couch. Vincent was across him on a larger couch, I widen my eyes realising I would have to sit next to Vincent.

I take a seat next to Vincent, he looks at me for a split second before looking away almost instantly. I scoff at his actions, he was so hostile towards me.

"We should go to my room, since it's easier for me to study there." Yuta says standing up, Vincent also stands up but he lets me pass him first. So he's hostile and a gentleman?

I follow Yuta upstairs towards his room, after passing the long corridor filled with many picture frames we finally made it towards his room.

I look at his room in awe, it was decorated simply. Everything was organised into order, his walls are painted a bright white and his interior was black. I have to admit that Yuta has a good style.

Vincent takes a seat on the black beanbag on the ground, I take a seat on the beanbag opposite him - giving me a clear view of him. Yuta takes a seat next to me on another bean bag, he pulls out a large textbook before placing it in front of us.

"You know how to teach this... I guess I'll hand it over to you?" Yuta touches the nape of his neck cutely as he looked at me, cutely? What am I even thinking these days?

Vincent watches the two of us intently before pulling out a book from his bag. Yuta looks at his friend quite surprised, "You want to study too?" Yuta asks Vincent.

Vincent nods his head before pushing his notebook forward as he leaned his stomach on the beanbag. I look at him confused, the guy had a much higher IQ than me, I'm guessing he wants to recap stuff?

Even though he was much smarter than me, he seemed to act like I was the smarter one. I shrug my shoulders before starting to talk about the topics I would be studying with the two of them.

They both nodded their heads to my words, understanding each bit of information I told them. After one hour we had already gone through a lot of topics, Yuta understood almost every concept.

It confused me how he's doing bad on his tests if he's doing very well on the things I'm going through with him. On the other hand Vincent paid attention to everything I said quietly, nodding his head every now and then - still not uttering a single word.

"You're a really good teacher Malia, I would definitely want you to be my teacher any day." Yuta compliments me, holding his palm against the back of his neck.

I give him a small smile, "To be honest, you seem like you know everything. I was just helping you get a grip on the things you fail to remember." I tell him as he nods his head.

"I'll be right back with snacks, give me ten minutes." Yuta stands up straight before stretching, giving me a perfect view of his muscles. He really changed over the past two years, I divert my attention from his muscles as I realise I'm not alone in Yuta's room.

Vincent casually was sprawled across the beanbag as he texted on his phone, I pull out my phone to play some games. Only to realise I had many texts from the devil's daughter Val.

Val: want to shop, i need new lingerie for archer.

I stifle a laugh, making Vincent his dart his attention to me. The fact that Val thinks she could use a damn lingerie to impress a playboy like Archer is smart but that would only win over his attention not heart.

Suddenly my phone is snatched from my grip, I look at Vincent who started to type on my phone. What could this guy be doing?

"Vincent why did you take m--" Vincent passes my phone over, I pause before looking at the newly added contact number.

Vince

I look at the newly contact he had added dumbfounded, did Vincent Ace just add his damn number on to my phone? I look at him raising one eyebrow at him.

Vincent gestures to my phone as he typed something on his. My phone suddenly vibrates pulling me out of my thoughts, I curiously check it.

Vince: thank you for helping me study.

His text message made me feel slightly accomplished, he had finally communicated with me. Even though he doesn't talk to me, texting will be alright for now.

"You're welcome Vince?" I look at him unsure whether it was okay to use the nickname Vince for him. He begins to type on his phone once again.

Vince: call me vince anytime, i like it.

I felt a smile creeping up my face as Vincent places his black earphones on, he closes his eyes as he began listening to his music quietly. He wasn't that bad of a person, I wanted to know why he doesn't speak to me still, it still confuses me how he is able to talk to others except me.