Checkmate

The Calm before the Storm

Andrea woke up wrapped in Blake's arms.It was the best feeling of her life. Being with Blake was the best decision she ever made and Blake did not give her any chance to regret it ever. Andrea was adoring the sight infront of her Blake was still asleep giving Andrea the opportunity to admire his beautiful lashes. She thought how long and curly they are. She started tracing his dense eyebrows with her index finger and moved on to his small nose and perfect full lips. He had little stubble on his jaw which made him look way too sexy. Andrea started tracing his features causing Blake to stir in his sleep and frowned.Andrea chuckled on his reaction unfortunately the sound woke her sleeping boyfriend who looked at her with sleepy eyes.His dark brown eyes have always been her favourite and the way they looked at her with so much love made her full in every way.

"Good morning Baby" Blake murmured softly and gave her a quick peck on her lips.

"Good morning" Andrea replied with a smile she started running her hands through his blond hair.

"Ready for today?"Blake asked

"Yeah I am. I have nothing to worry about as long as you're here with me."

"That's like my girl!" Blake said and gave her a kiss on her forehead.

Once Andrea was in school she was so busy with her classes that she forgot to ask about Mia's note of confirmation. During lunch break it stuck her mind to enquire if the note has been submitted or not. She was on her way to the office when she saw Caleb coming out of the office.

When he noticed her he smiled at her and informed her "Miss Stewart I was here to submit the confirmation note on behalf of Mia."

"Okay I wish her speedy recovery." Andrea was rather calm and composed than the other day. She made her up her mind that maybe she was overreacting and they are two different people after all. And even if he is the same Andrea isn't that same naive girl so she would stand her ground.

"Once again Miss Stewart thankyou for your help and generosity." Caleb smiled and walked towards the exit of the building.

Andrea couldn't help but notice that there was a different aura about him. But now that everything's done maybe she won't even see him anymore so she went back her way.The rest of the day went on as usual.Andrea was on her way out of the school when she realised that she needed to shop some basic necessities for the house and decide to stop by the mall on her way back. She left Blake a text and got in her to get to the mall.

The mall was not very heavily crowed because of the timing so Andrea was quite happy about it. She took a trolley and started picking up stuff which she needed. She picked up some oranges, some vegetables and even got some wine. When she was done she got in the line for checkout when she saw some commotion there. She went ahead to inspect what was going on.

She saw a lady was shouting at a boy about stealing her phone. When she looked a little closer she was surprised to see that the boy was Stephen, one of her students.She decided to step in and defend Stephen because he was a good boy and he would never do something like this.

"Somebody call the police right now!" The lady shouted.

"Excuse me what's the matter?" Andrea enquired

"This boy stole my phone and is standing there and lying about it now." the lady replied

"Did you do it Stephen?" Andrea asked

"No I didn't do anything like that. I have no idea how the phone was in my bag. But I did not do it Miss Stewart. Please trust me." Stephen cried.

Andrea knew that Stephen was a good boy so she defended him." I'm sorry ma'am but I don't think he did it there might be some misunderstanding."

"Who are you? Do you know him? Why are you defending this thief?" The lady snapped

"I am his teacher and I know him he's a good person I don't think he's even capable of doing something like this so maybe there is misunderstanding in it." Andrea replied

"So what are trying to say that I'm framing him? Why would I do that with myself?" she hissed

"No no you're misunderstanding me. I didn't mean it like that. Maybe it's all a mishap. That's it. Please let him go I take responsibility for him that he'll never do something like this in the future." Andrea pleaded

"What's all this commotion for?" A voice asked from behind and they all turned around to survey the the person who it came from.

When Andrea turned around she found Caleb Hooper walking in the store with an other man who appears to be his assistant.

"Mr. Hooper this boy here stole my phone and this lady here claims that he's innocent and does not want me to report him to the police." The lady rushed to explain.

Caleb didn't pay attention to the woman and asked "Miss Stewart do you take really believe that he hasn't done something like this?"

"Yes Mr. Hooper he's my student and I know him so I'm sure he won't do something like this. I take responsibility for him." Andrea replied

"Okay Miss Stewart I take your word for it." He turned and directed his attention to the lady and said "Linda I trust Miss Stewart so I'm asking you to let this boy go. Anyway you got back your phone and he's just a student something like this would ruin his career. So let him go for my sake.

Linda looked at him and nodded her head.

Andrea let out a sigh of relief and grabbed Stephen and was rushing out the door when Caleb called her " Miss Stewart please wait."

Andrea turned around and found him walking towards them. When Caleb reached her he smiled and said "I'm sorry for the inconvenience Miss Stewart.I really hope you can put this incident behind us."

Andrea replied "It's okay Mr. Hooper. I should thankyou for the help. I'll keep him under check so don't worry. I assure you there won't be any kind of further inconvenience. And I'm sorry for what happened."

"Call me Caleb please.And I think it was all a misunderstanding I really hope to make it up to you.If you are free tomorrow night how about dinner ? It's my treat consider it a thankyou for helping me in the school and my apology for this incident."

"Uh...there's no need for that it's fine." Andrea replied

"Please Miss Stewart I insist. You can pick a restaurant of your choice but please don't refuse otherwise I'll think that you didn't forgive me."

Andrea thought about it and came to the conclusion that he cannot do anything in a public place and replied "Okay Mr. Hooper. We can meet at the Golden age restaurant near school tomorrow at 7 p.m."

Caleb smiled and replied "Sure I'll be there Miss Stewart. Good night."

Andrea got in the car and looked at Stephen who was waiting for her and asked "What happened bank there explain everything in detail. Okay?"

"I was just working my shift at the mall but that woman at first tried to seduce me and then when I refused her she blamed me for stealing.I didn't do it. I swear I didn't." Stephen explained

"I trust you Stephan. Just be careful next time onwards okay?"

"Yes I'll take care and thankyou for saving me and also for dropping me home." Stephan said

"It's okay take care." with that she drove away.

She couldn't think of anything suspicious and decided to stop think about all this and go straight home.