Chapter 2

●○ Continuation of the last chapter's flashback ○●

▪︎ Mina's Point of View ▪︎

I was walking by the hallway to our classroom when I heard guys talking about how sexy and hot ma'am Parker is. I glared at them. Why do they have to talk about that woman? I don't care if she is our age. Dang!

I continued walking down the hallway, but suddenly, I bumped into someone and fell with my butt on the floor. Ouch! I looked at the person I bumped with.

It's her. It is ma'am Parker. Tss!

"I'm so sorry. Are you okay?? Are you hurt?" she asked me with her famous soft voice.

Long blonde hair. Lame blue cardigan. The strong fruity smell of shampoo. Natural style makeup.

Before I could respond, someone helped in gathering all the test papers together that spread while we bumped into each other. I stood up by myself and saw a guy in front of me.

"Here, ma'am Parker," he said while handing her the test papers.

"Thank you, Kyle," she replied softly.

"We are at school, ma'am," he replied.

"Oh, that's right," she said while holding both sides of her head as if punishing herself for forgetting something.

Who is this guy? Is he one of her fan boys, too? No, I know those looks of his.

He turned around and looked me in the eyes.

That is how we met each other...

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"Do you know who she likes?" I asked him. We are here on the rooftop, looking at the couple walking down on the first floor who were looking so sweet.

"I do," he simply replied.

"Ma'am Parker was my private tutor in my junior high. I never thought that she would be working here as a teacher here in my senior high, too. I thought to myself that I am lucky, " he explained.

"Hey, are you even listening?" he asked while looking at me.

"What is so good with that woman, brother?" I said while looking down.

"Hey, hey, don't diss ma'am Parker," he said as if defending his beloved woman.

"Yeah, yeah. You guys like those soft and puppy-eyed girls." I sadly said.

"Duh, we are just both spiteful," he replied.

"Good for us," I boringly replied. "Now, I'm hungry!"

And the stronger we felt, the more we were moped.

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In October, before we realized it, we are already spending a lot of time with each other.

It was raining a lot, so we stopped by his house. He is living by himself, so we were playing video games in his room.

"I'm so done," I said while sitting on the floor. I rested both my head and arms on his bed, to which he quickly reacted.

"Hey, don't get my bed wet," he said while still playing with the controllers and played.

"I just want to quit school," I sadly said.

"Is it because of Sir Martin? Are you going to give up on him, then?" he asked, but his eyes are still on the screen looking so focused on his game.

"Never" I strongly disagreed while raising my head. "But..."

"But?" he asked without looking at me.

I slowly crawled towards him and hugged him from the back. He stopped playing with his game console, and I can feel his body stiffen.

"You surprised me," he said.

"Really? I couldn't tell at all, " I laughingly replied.

I was also surprised by my own action, but it already happened.

He looked at me, and since I was also looking at him, our face is a little closer than usual. We both looked away.

"Aren't you sad?" he asked.

"Aren't you also sad, Kyle?" I also asked him.

I think, we are both thinking the same thing.

He gently touched my hand and kissed me in my lips. He turned around and pulled me closer to him. He hugged me tightly, which made our kiss even deeper. Of my own accord, I encircled both my arms in his neck and legs in his waist.

He lifted me gently without breaking our shared kiss and headed to the bed. He gently laid me on his bed, and this time, he broke our kiss. We are both gasping for air as our kisses end.

He hold both of my wrists and pinned them down beside my head. He is on top of me now.

"Hey, why don't you pretend that I'm your 'brother'?" he said while looking directly into my eyes.

I was a little surprised by his question but before I could reply, he started giving me small but gentle kisses on my neck.

Right. Kyle does not have any romantic feelings for me. Whether I see Kyle as Kyle or not, it doesn't matter. Since I'm just a replacement too.

He planted small kisses on my neck and my face. As he was about to kiss me on my lips, I looked away. He looked so confused about the refusal of that kiss.

"That tickles" I shortly said.

"Do you even want to do this?" he asked with a slight grumpiness in his voice.

"You're the one who wants to do it" I replied.

Our faces are still very close to each other while we were talking and surprisingly, we are not awkward in our position. As if this is our usual way of conversing.

"Besides, you look nothing like him," I said.

"You're way too demanding. I'm pretty good looking, you know" he said.

We stared at each other for a while. The rain is still showering heavily outside. Though the rain is loud, we can still hear each other's breath.

"Close your eyes" he demanded.

Right. If we are going to do this, we really should do this.

I closed my eyes and I can see my brother's silhouette. I started imagining that the guy on top of me now is the guy that I've been wanting to. I'm imagining that he is my brother.

I can feel his movement. I can feel the heat of his palm on my face.

My fingertips are so cold. Everything felt so distant. All I can hear is my heartbeat. It is beating too fast.

I can feel him coming closer to me. He kissed my forehead.

●○Flashback - to be continued○●