Teaching A Thing Or Two

Chapter 10 Sparks

Finley's POV

The sparks I feel between us in this moment are undeniable and even so electrifying that I don't want to step away.. but I have to keep my cool.. I wonder if he feels this, too... or if it's just me.. probably just me being sensitive since I'm attracted to him more than I should be.. This is not why I'm here no matter how bad I want it to be the reason why I'm here.

"You're right he was a complete tool.. I should have just said no when he asked me out in the first place.. like my gut was telling me to do." I reply way too honestly for my own good.

"Then why even date him? I'm sorry.. that's probably being too blunt.. but if you don't mind me asking." Jameson asks as he breaks our gaze walking back into the kitchen.. I find myself just following him instinctively like I'm in some sort of a trance.

"Honestly, I just wanted a distraction from my lonely lie of a life. My friends insisted on me not being alone yesterday, just wanting me to distract myself.. mostly from my blunt reality of being alone after finding my boyfriend cheating on me with a model. So that date was more of just a confidence booster for myself.. I knew I didn't like him.. I just wanted to spend time with someone who actually wanted to be around me." I respond too honestly once again.. I don't know what it is about this guy, but I feel like I can just tell him anything.

I suck in a deep breath, just enjoying how good the dinner smells.. it smells almost as good as he looks, which is a hard thing to beat.

"I don't know how a woman as stunning as you would need a confidence booster, but I can see how being cheated on would make you want a distraction. I'm just sorry that the distraction you had took a hard left turn for you." He says so casually, walking around the kitchen just looking so natural.

"Me.. stunning? Really? Thank you.. no one has ever honestly said that to me before." I say, watching him turn around smiling at me, then opening his mouth to talk as we hear Sunny say. "Finn, Curtis told me he tried to pretend to be older to ask you out, then going to your house, and telling you how he feels is that true? Are you going to say yes?"

"What? No way.. he is a child from my class for one thing, and for the second thing I would go to jail and lose my job if I ever tried anything with a student, which is something I didn't think I would have to explain multiple times but here we are.. and the biggest reason I said no is because I need a real MAN who knows how to treat a woman. I'm so tired of the boys and their stupid games.. I just want a man who can commit to me and only me." I laugh, shaking my head as if it's just obvious.

"Your student asked you out?" Jameson asks with shock and confusion in his voice. "Don't be too shocked, I know I'm not much to look at, but some guys like this." I state as I watch his eyes go wide.

"No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like that... You really are drop-dead gorgeous.. but when I was a freshman, I never would have had enough confidence to do any of that. I'm surprised he did all that.. I'm not surprised that you have guys of all ages after you because there would have to be something wrong with them not to go for you." He tries to explain as we just smile at each other for a long, comfortable moment.

That is until I hear the front door open, then close as the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in person, walks in. She looks absolutely flawless, making me wonder if this is some sort of dream because she is too perfect to be real.

"God, what are you cooking, James? It smells disgustingly fattening. You know I can't have that s**t that you live to make." She spats with the most shrill voice I have ever heard, not matching her looks at all.. she walks into the kitchen.

"That's why I made fixings for a salad, Amelia. If you would have taken a look around before automatically assumed things, then you would have figured that out on your own." Jameson spats back with a tinge of annoyance in his voice as he adds. "Amelia, we do have company, so please don't be.. yourself."

She feigns shock at his comment before replying. "Why should I be nice? Who is she?" she just glares at me from afar, investigating every detail of me, so I just try to decide to break the ice with her.. I extend my hand to her explaining. "Hello Amelia, I'm Finley, Sunny's new teacher that she just got transferred to.. I wanted to make sure to do an at home visit to discuss and come up with a plan of attack to help from here on out with her studies." She glares at my hand, not taking it, let alone shaking it, which doesn't exactly suprise me.

"At home visit? So you're dating James?" She bluntly asks me right out of left field. I just vigorously shake my head. "No, I'm here for Sunny, not Jameson.. Sunny has been having some personal problems at school, and I'm trying to help solve them. I'm sure you have heard about it because we have been trying to call you and leaving messages for months now. But Jameson is the only one we seem to be able to get hold of." I explain spitefully back as she scoffs, "I'm sure you are." She says sarcastically to me.

"Ma'am, I'm sorry if I have offended you somehow, but I'm not here to date your husband." I state as she instantly spats back. "EX-husband deary, and I'm not blind, I see the way he is looking at you over there. I don't want a skanky teacher such as yourself around Jameson or even teaching my daughter to be even remotely like you. So, transfer her back to the classroom she came from." demanding this from me as my mouth drops open at her easily made insults.

"I don't care what you want, mother! You're just jealous that Finley has helped me more in the past couple of years than you have my whole life! I want her as my teacher!" She yells at her mother from almost directly behind me. Amelia starts to glare at Sunny as I can't help but step in front of her glaring, breaking the gaze from Sunny.. she doesn't deserve this treatment.

"What? Do you think you can save her or something?" She spitefully asks me as I confidently nod answering, "I would try my best to do everything I can for her." She scoffs at this, rolling her eyes at me before yelling. "You will get a different teacher, and that's final, Sunny!"

"No, mother! You can't!" She yells out from behind me again as she squeezes my hand.

"I can, and I will! This is final!" She retorts back to Sunny, causing her to grunt out in pain as she pushes past me, out of the kitchen, then out the front door into the darkness.

"Sunny?!" I yell for her because this is not safe for her to run out there by herself, especially when it's dark out.

"I'm so sorry for all the problems I have caused.. I will get Sunny back then leave.. I'm so sorry." I say to Jameson and not Amelia because I could care less what she thinks. I'm just sad I caused all this for him and Sunny. Amelia smirks in victory, not even caring how she has hurt her daughter or even caring for her safety since she has run out into the night.

I look over at Jameson with my sad eyes, and his eyes are set on me. I watch his eyes turn to anger as he just glares over at Amelia, and I think that's my cue to leave because I don't need to hear this argument between them.. So I turned around suddenly, leaving this place to find Sunny.

I run out of the house in search of her, and luckily, I see her in the far distance down the long open street. I keep watching her as I'm trailing down the street behind her, I notice she turns down this street, leaving my sight as I quicken my pace, so hopefully, I don't lose her trail. I think I do remember passing a park on the drive over to here. So maybe that's where she is headed.

I take off running down the street with as much speed as I can muster up until I turn the same way I think she did before. It's a bike path.. I can't see her, but once I start to get closer, I do see a park and the bike path that leads through the park.

Once I arrive at the park I let my gaze glide across the area and everything I can now see better, since my eyes have adjusted to the dark with there only being a couple lights over the bike trail.

I keep looking for her, or at least any signs of her but nothing. I keep walking and looking all around until I finally see movement across the way next to a bench. I see her sit down, then put her hands on her face, indicating she is probably crying. I make sure to quicken my pace again, getting to her in no time at all, luckily.

"Sunny hun, you can't just run off like that. You could get hurt or even worse because it's dangerous for a girl to be out here by herself at this time of the night." I lecture her as she groans out before responding.

"Well, luckily for me, you're here, so I'm not alone.. at least for now because here comes my mother once again, to take over my life and ruining everything I want, just to make me and my father miserable.. there is a reason they are not together anymore."

I quickly sit down next to her.. getting her attention as I take her hands into mine. "Sunny, no matter what happens.. if your mother does make you leave my class or not.. I will ALWAYS be here for you, no matter what. That's why I gave you my personal number and my address because I meant every word when I told you that before.. you know I love and adore you." I explain this to her as best as I can. I watch her wipe away the tears from her eyes. I help her wiping away more tears from her cheeks that are just glistening under the moonlight. I wrap my arm around her shoulders and pull her into me as I kiss her temple. She still sniffles, crying in my hold, but I don't mind.

"You mean more to me than you will ever know Sunny, and I won't let someone like that come completely between us, but there are things she can control with her being your mother.. but I will never be fully gone." I reassure her as she lets out a deep breath, nodding her head as she leans into me more. "Thanks, Finn.. you really are the best. I wish you could be my mom." She says so sweetly to me as I let out a deep breath as well, saying under my breath with her being in such close proximity. "Me too, Sunny."