The Charade by Judy Corry

Author:Judy Corry [Corry, Judy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cherry Blossom Romance
Published: 2021-05-16T16:00:00+00:00

23

Carter

"I don't know if you'll need a tutor much longer," I told Ava after we finished our math assignment one Thursday afternoon. "I barely feel like you need my help as it is."

When Mrs. Simmons first told me about who I'd be tutoring this year, she'd made it sound like I'd have my work cut out for me.

But so far, Ava had caught onto all the concepts we were learning about in our Statistics class without too much extra help from me, and I wouldn't be surprised if Ava was acing all her tests before long.

"I appreciate the vote of confidence," she said, her cheeks flushing a beautiful pink. "But I think I'll keep you around a little longer."

Was it weird that I actually looked forward to our tutoring sessions?

In previous years, I'd mostly seen tutoring as a way to give back—to help people who struggled with the subject to get on better terms with it.

But it was different with Ava. Sure, I wanted her to get to where she didn't groan every time the word math was brought up in a conversation, but I also had more selfish reasons for wanting to keep our tutoring sessions going. I liked having the one-on-one, uninterrupted time with her. I liked the excuse to sit close and accidentally brush arms as we worked side by side. I savored the chances I got to breathe in her delicious shampoo when I leaned close to check her answers.

And I also liked having a reason to keep our fake relationship going. Because while we'd probably already satisfied my need for our arrangement—the need to give Sofia the impression that I had indeed moved on from her—as long as Ava wanted people to believe I was wooing her instead of tutoring her, I had an excuse for why I was always close by her side when we were hanging out with our friends.

I should probably remind her that having a math tutor was nothing to be ashamed of in the first place. But the selfish part of me just wanted to keep this thing going for another month, or two…or possibly until we graduated.

Would it be too obvious if I offered to tutor her in college?

"Got any other fun plans for this evening?" Ava slipped her notebook with the pink skulls on it into her backpack.

"Not really." I shrugged. "You?"

"Elyse has a drama club meeting and I think Scarlett said she had a volleyball game tonight, so I was probably just going to watch a movie in my room or something since I finally don't have homework."

Was this her way of hinting that her night was open if I wanted to hang out with her?

I didn't think I had anything other than a workout scheduled for tonight, and since it was just a run, it shouldn't take me very long to do.

I studied her, trying to figure out if I should take a chance and ask her to hang out with me tonight.

Despite spending a lot of time together the past few weeks, we hadn't done anything alone that didn't involve schoolwork.

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