Wedding Bells

Chapter 2: The new gym teacher

"Max, this gentleman is Nicklaus," mom said to me.

I nodded as I was stairing at Nicklaus. Nicklaus has beautiful tourquise eyes and fair skin and is very handsome. Damn! What the heck I am doing? I shouldn't be checking him out, should I?

"Mr. Smith, why was Max doing in the forest?" Nicklaus asked.

"In the forest? Honey, you didn't ran in the forest to commit suicide, right?" Dad asked, worriedly.

"No dad! Of course not!" I said as I thought about how stupid it was for me to ran away from home. "I was kind of upset."

"Wait, what?" Nicklaus said. "You went to the forest because you were upset? Do you have any idea how dangerous that was?"

"As if you care?" I asked back.

"Of course I care! I care about you, Max! You should understand that I am worried about you, okay?" He said as he was trying to control his anger.

Why does Nicklaus care about me? We don't even know eachother properly.

"I think Max should go home. She need to real ax and take rest," Nicklaus said.

My parents nodded and we went home. I went to my room and went near the dressing table and started to comb my hair as I tried to figure out why does Nicklaus care about me.

The next day . . .

I woke up in the morning, still upset about the arrange marriage agreement. I sighed as I went to the washroom and got fressed and went downstairs to have my breakfast.

After my breakfast, I went to my university, feeling upset. I went in the university and went to my class as I could hear people talking.

"I heard that our new gymn teacher is very handsome," a woman laughed.

"Girl, I got a crush on him this morning. Our gym teacher is so hot!" Another woman laughed.

Gymn teacher? Who is this new gym teacher? I have gymn in the last period.

After a couple of hours . . .

I was in my gymn changing room. I got changed in my gymn outfit and had my long hair in a pony tail. We are going to play basketball today and I have no idea how to play basketball. I sighed as I thought, after I get married to Nicklaus, am I still going to continue my university education?

I sighed as I got in the gymn. Our gymn was pretty big and people were holding a basketball ball.

The gymn door opened as our new gymn teacher came in the gymn. I gasped as I recognized our new gymn teacher. Our new gymn teacher is Nicklaus? But how? I mean . . . He . . . Our new gym teacher . . . Man, I can't even think straight.

Nicklaus was wearing his gym outfit and he looked at me. I looked at him as he smiled sweetly at me and winked at me. What the heck?!

"Hi students! I am Mr. Nicklaus Urick," Nicklaus said. "I am your new gym teacher and I am going to teach you how to play basketball. We will be playing basketball for a while because we will have a tournament with other students."

I was stairing at Nicklaus. If he is our teacher then he is older than me? How old is he?

"So, first, I will tell you how to dribble your ball in the correct way," Nicklaus said. "Everybody, stand in a line."

We stood in a line as he gave each of us a basketball ball. Nicklaus took a ball by himself and showed how to dribble properly. "Now, you students should try to do what I did. Dribble your ball."

I held my ball and dribbled a bit as the ball bounced somewhere else and I ran to get the ball while all the students started to laugh. I was embarrassed.

"She can't even dribble the ball properly," some boys and girls laughed.

I slowly got the ball as Nicklaus said, "Stop! Nobody should laugh at eachother! Everybody has some weakness and nothing is wrong wih it. You need to try hard and you get better at it."

The students stopped laughing and appolize as Nicklaus smiled at me. For some reason I smiled back at him. May be he is nice?

After a couple of minutes . . .

We practiced dribbling the ball for a while and now we were practicing to throw the ball in the net. I could see how Nicklaus was so concentrated in his work. He was instructing the students properly and he was sweeping. He did look . . . Handsome? I was so lost in looking at Nicklaus that I didn't notice the ball that dribbled near me and hit my on my head. "Ouch!"

"You okay?" Nicklaus said as he ran near me and the other students laughed. "We are quitting our class here. You students can go home."

The students nodded and got out of the gym, laughing.

"Are you alright?" He asked, worriedly.

"Yes, " I said but my head did hurt a bit.

"Is your head hurting?" He asked.

"A bit," I answered.

"You should go to the washroom and let the water ran on top of your head. You might feel better," he said.

I nodded and went to the girls washroom and turned on the tap to let the water ran on my head. Everybody in school already went home and I could hear some knocks in the washroom door.

"You okay?" Nicklaus asked worriedly.

"Yes," I said, as my voice wasn't loud enough.

Nicklaus opened the girls washroom door and came in the washroom, making my eyes wided in surprise.

"What are you . . ."

"Is your head hurting?" He asked worriedly as he came near me and put an ice pack on my head.

"Is am okay," I said.

Nicklaus sighed in relief and said, "you have no idea what would happen to me if you gotta hurt. Your are too precious for me to let you get hurt."

I starred at him. Did he say that I am too precious to him?

"What?" He asked as he caught me staring at him.

"Nothing," I said.

"Let me drive you home," he offered. "Or, we can go to a park. I still want to know what you were doing in the forest."

I sighed. "I ran away from home, okay?"

"You what?" He asked.

"Well, I heard that I need to get married to you and I didn't even know who you are so, I got mad and ran away from home and somehow went to the forest," I said as I could see him, looking hurt.

"I understand," he said. "Can you tell me something? What do you have problem with? Do you not like me or do you not like this idea of getting married with somebody that you don't know."

"Um . . ." Why is he asking me about whatI think about the arrange marriage? "I don't like the idea of how I have to marry somebody that I don't like or don't know about. I mean, how can a person marry somebody without understanding the other person?"

"Good point," he said. "So, let's do something. We will go our for a week and if you like me then you can marry me and if you don't then," he sounded hurt. "I will call off the marriage."

I looked at him in shock.

"We are going to the movies today so, make sure to wear something nice," he winked at me and went out of the washroom.