The Bad Boy's Thorn

Chapter Nine

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"We will not be having class today due to the reason I have a conference to go to, you guys are free to go." Mrs Potter says, I almost jump in excitement. Once she leaves the classroom, everyone goes into their own conversation.

"I'm confused, do we leave?" A student exclaims looking for the teacher that had just left, he shrugs his shoulders before pulling his bag. He leaves the classroom slyly as the other students one by one follow his actions.

Then it left Archer and Vincent and I in the classroom. I look at the both gesturing towards the open door, Vincent tilts his jaw bringing out his already present sharp jawline.

"I've been craving chicken ever since I entered this classroom, so I'm gone." Archer says pulling his bag alongside him, he leaves Vincent and I.

I notice Vincent texting on his phone, I sigh before making my way out of the classroom but my phone vibrates. I pull my phone out to read the message.

Vince: you didn't tell me i looked good.

I turn around to find Vincent gazing at me with his un withering eyes, I gulp as he made his way towards me. He pulls his phone out showing the message.

"I guess you look good." I say as his blank face brightens up immediately.

He doesn't speak, his phone starts to vibrate. I notice him looking at his phone, his lips part as he read the message he had just received.

Vincent closes his eyes before shoving his phone in his pocket. He looks at me with a frown, leaving me alone in the classroom as he wordlessly walked away.

Someone killed his mood drastically, I sigh as I walked out of the classroom. It was too early for lunch period but every student in this classroom had already made their way towards the cafeteria for early food.

"Malia?" I heard Yuta, I turn to face him. His hair was more tamed, his tie was loosely around his neck as he walked towards me, he looked ravishingly good.

"You don't have a lesson right now?" I ask him as he shook his head to say no.

"I have free period, don't you have class right now?" he runs his hand through his dark brown hair.

I shake my head, "I did but Mrs Potter has some conference so everyone basically has a free period right now." I tell him as he purses his perfectly plumped pink lips.

"Want to get some food?" he offers, I nod my head immediately, he lets out a husky chuckle before walking alongside me to the cafeteria.

"This food is free right?" I look at Yuta, I have priorities and one of them was never deny free food.

Yuta nods his head, "You deserve it for helping me study, do you want to know something?" he says as I shrug my shoulders at his words.

"I passed my English literature paper with the mark of ninety-two!" he says proudly as I widen my eyes, I was shocked. He raised his mark from a fifty-two to a ninety-two.

"Congrats Yuta, I didn't even help that much. All I did was help you recap." I say as he sends me one of his swoon worthy eye smiles.

"You helped a lot," he mumbles in a low tone, "That I'm finally... proud of myself." he says as I smile at his words. He was too good for this world.

"Now let's get some food, this is worth celebrating!"

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This was not worth celebrating.

Once Yuta and I got into the cafeteria I was sent dirty looks of the students of Selveridge High, it wasn't something I wasn't used to. But today it was harsh, that was because Yuta and I are together eating lunch alone in the rank 1 table.

"Just ignore them, eat your ramen." Yuta says softly as I nod my head, stuffing the ramen up my mouth. Enjoying the delicious spice.

"Thank you." I say with my mouth filled with noodles, Yuta chuckles at my state as he took small bites of his food. He barely touched his food.

After gulping the noodles I watch as Yuta places his fork down, he doesn't even look at the food. I eye him suspiciously as he rests his hand on his chin - looking at me.

"Why aren't you eating?" I point towards the completely filled up bowl of ramen noodles. Yuta bites his lips before responding in a hushed tone.

"I don't like it that much." he says smoothly.

"Oh," I state, I thought it was something else. "Want me to finish it for you?" I offer as he pushes the bowl towards my, switching my empty bowl with his full bowl.

I stuff more noodles, Yuta glances at me as I devoured his bowl of noodles in the matter of minutes.

"You're really good at this, you should teach me how you don't get sick of food." Yuta slightly grimaces, his words were saddened.

"You just eat." I look at him confused as he shifts uncomfortably in his seat.

Yuta was going to respond to me but someone interrupts him, "Yuta, you actually ate?" Archer looks at Yuta with his eyes widened.

Yuta opens his mouth to speak but Archer continues to talk, "I'm proud of you, I really am." he pats Yuta's back before taking a seat next to me.

I watch as Yuta's body stiffens at Archer's words, there was something up. Something seemed wrong with Yuta.

"I'm laughing at how Bethany cheated on me, just because I didn't hook up with her - she decided to hook up with someone else." Archer says bitterly as he took a bite of his chicken sandwich.

"So you don't care that she cheated on you?" I gave Archer a pointed look as he nodded his head to my statement.

"It's life, if someone does something like that you should just move on." he says vaguely.

"I'm beginning to think her cheating on you has turned you into a better person." I state as Archer releases a light chuckle.

"Believe me, it hasn't."

"Seems like you've found your new target." I heard another voice, I found my brother Dylan taking a seat in front of Archer.

"I did." Archer responds, Annabelle walks towards the table with a small salad in her hands.

"So who is the new target?" Annabelle asks excitedly, was this some sort of joke? Archer would target girls and his friends would encourage him.

I'm disgusted at my brother's words, he seemed like a different person in this school.

"Her name is Val, she's there." Archer gestured towards Val who sat on the rank 2 table beside her friends, Sally and Sarah.

Annabelle looks at Archer with a smirk, "I'm glad you picked her, it will be fun to see her cry." she says pathetically scanning her nails.

"Why? Did she do something to you?" I ask as Annabelle gives me a strained look.

"It's not what she did, it's what she said. Let's just say that little Val over there decided to spread rumours that I hooked up with the gym teacher." Annabelle scowls as she scanned Val in distaste.

"Well, did you hook up with the gym teacher?" Dylan asks his crush Annabelle. I roll my eyes at his obvious crush on the social media queen.

Annabelle throws her head back, "Of course I did, who do you think I am? Age is just a number, plus Val telling people made my reputation go downhill."

Dylan frowns at Annabelle's words. What was he thinking? Did he honestly think that Annabelle was all unicorns and sunshine, no. She was just a big ball of fire that seemed to burn anyone that crosses her path.

"And jail is just a room." Archer says sarcastically.

"I'm being serious here, that gym teacher was too hot to avoid." Annabelle defends herself as I cringe at her words. A seventeen year old girl shouldn't be hooking up with a thirty-eight year old gym teacher that is married.

I notice Yuta sitting down quietly on his phone, he hasn't spoken since Archer had joined the table. I purse my lips as I looked at him still trying to discover why he was so bothered by the way Archer was excited. It was as if he disliked eating for some reason.

But why would Yuta dislike eating? He had the body of a Greek god, he literally had the body that any guy would crave for. He looks like he worked hard for it, but the way he barely eats seemed suspicious.

Could Yuta have an eating disorder?