Blurry: A Student Teacher, Age Gap Romance by Michelle Hercules

Author:Michelle Hercules [Hercules, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Infinite Sky Publishing
Published: 2021-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

25

Chiara

I could have never foreseen that my chaste kiss with the golden knight—Phillip—would be such a big deal. Since I didn’t go out last weekend again, preferring to watch sappy movies on Netflix rather than partying with Robbie, I only get the full effect of my actions Monday morning while I walk to Alistair’s class. Whispers calling me “fair maiden” follow me, and people are staring a lot.

When I enter the classroom, the few students there turn to me and start to clap.

“Ugh, what the hell is going on?” I ask.

The guy nearest to me answers, “You broke the curse.”

“What curse?”

“Peter is being dramatic. There’s no curse, just a very long stretch without any wins for our football team,” someone else replies.

“Yup.” Peter bobs his head up and down. “But that changed last Saturday. Your kiss must have special powers, because our QB was on fire.”

“Who?” I look from Peter to the other girl who spoke.

“Phillip Harrison, our quarterback.”

Understanding finally dawns on me. “Ah, and you think that silly kiss has something to do with it?”

“Yes!” they both answer.

Josh comes into the room, tapping my shoulder as he walks by. “Good job, Chiara. You saved the school’s honor.”

I follow him, grumbling. “Not you too.”

Chuckling, Josh takes his seat, and I do the same. “Do people really believe I’m somehow responsible for this miraculous win?”

“Oh yeah. Most definitely.” He nods.

“Ugh!”

“Oh, and there’s more. Your magical kiss was featured front and center in yesterday’s online issue of the school’s paper. You’re famous now. People are probably planning your wedding to Phillip.”

“Fucking great,” I mumble, wondering if Alistair has seen that picture too. If he did, does he think Phillip is the reason I said I’ve moved on?

For fuck’s sake. Why am I distressed about that?

“Don’t worry about it. The story will die out soon. I mean, unless you two are actually dating.”

I roll my eyes and scoff. “I already told you. I’ve retired from dating.”

“Come on, Chiara. Because of one bad guy? There’s more fish in the sea, you know?”

I look at Josh. He’s staring straight ahead, so I can’t tell if he’s referring to himself. I hope not.

I pull out my phone and send Robbie a quick text message. How come he didn’t say anything earlier when we had class together? Actually, no one made a fuss. Maybe this breaking the curse story didn’t start until later.

ME: Thanks for the heads-up.

Two minutes later, he replies.

ROBBIE: Ah, shit. I totally forgot to warn you. My bad.

“My bad”? What kind of apology is that?

I’m about to send a sassy response back when Alistair walks in. He barely looks at the class, and his “Good morning” sounds more like a grumble than anything else.

“I hope everybody got enough rest last weekend because things are about to get hard in this class.”

“Harder than it already was?” Peter asks a little too loudly.

Alistair glances at the poor guy, glaring. “You think the past three weeks have been hard? That was me going easy on you.”

I’ve never seen this side of Alistair before.

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