Chapter 3 Crushing on Detention

• "Can I follow you?" Ruth asked as they stormed out of the last class for the day.
• "No, you don't need to follow me. He said I should come alone. It will be disrespectful. Don't worry, I will be fine. You guys can go. Hopefully, he won't waste my time." Jennifer said, as she turned towards Mike's office.
• "Hmm. Are you sure? I remembered he said DETENTION and I'm sure you are going to be in there for a long time, probably all day." Sandra said and Jennifer sighed as she felt her stomach sink, knowing that Sandra was not wrong.
• "You know What? Text me later." Jennifer said before walking towards Mike's door and knocked.
• "You can come in." She heard Mike's from inside. She took a deep breath and pushed the door open. Mike raised his head to see who was coming and returned back to what he was doing.
• As she walked closer to his desk, Mike said, " Miss Orton, I'm sure you are aware that you are ten minutes late." She was about to say something and he cuts in and added, "Drop your bag and take a seat." 
• Jennifer removed her bag from her shoulders and sat down on the seat as Mike instructed.
• She clasped her fingers. waiting. She waited for few moments for him to say something but he was busy with the books on his desk. He was doing as if there was nobody there with him in the office.
• Jennifer closed her legs and ran her hand through her dark long blonde hair. Moments later, she looked at the clock and snailed down to Mike who was still busy with books on his desk. She was getting impatience.
• "um..mmm. Sir? Are you not going to talk to me? When can I leave?" She asked. He raised his dark eyes brows and glared at her with a cold stare and said, "If I'm not mistaken. You've just been here for three minutes, Miss Orton." sounding slightly annoyed and Jennifer bite her lower lip.
• "You are right. but sir... I..I h..have cheer practice and my friends are waiting for me." She managed to say, hoping that will make him release her.
• "Cheer practice?" He repeated, talking out of highnes. Jennifer sighed dropping her shoulder and nodded her head.
• "Well, yeah. We had an important game next week, and I have a really hard solo routine. If I miss the practice, they will replace me with another person." Jennifer complained and Mike stared at her with his hand on his chin and Jennifer blushed in embarrassment. He was looking at her as if she was talking rubbish.
• He smirked at her and shook his head before returning back to the paper he was grading before the interruption. Jennifer knew the conversation was over.
• Not knowing what else to do. She crossed and part her leg in frustration as she sat in detainment. This was one of the most boring moment of her life. She can't even press her phone. She spent the few moments playing with her hair, but that didn't help that long and it began to irritate her.
• She thought of doing something crazy that will draw Mike's attention. So she reached into her purse and pulled out a tube of her favorite lip gloss and a small make up mirror and began to slowly applying the lip gloss, paying much attention to the curve of the sultry lips, enjoying the fruity taste of the gloss.
• She knew she was not supposed to be applying gloss in a teacher's office, she just wanted to make Mike angry or get him talk to her.
• Mike notice what she was doing and stopped grading. She continued, even after she realized that Mike was watching her.
• "You want to get into my nerve? You want to see the other side of me? This is not beauty class. Put it back inside your bag." Mike said and Jennifer sighed and put the whole stuff back inside her purse.
• "You are keeping me without saying anything. Am I really supposed to just seat and do nothing?" Jennifer asked.
• "Is this your first time of being in detention? Stop talking af if you have no idea about it." Mike replied, looking at her.
• "Well, this is my first time. I know people spend time during detention but I don't know it's as boring as this." Jennifer said, looking up at Mike like an innocent doll. He looked back at her with a facial expression she'd never seen him before. He didn't look hard but it caused a sudden annoyance to her curiosity.
• "Seriously? You are in finals and this is the first time you are getting detented? Are you trying to tell me you are a good girl and I'm a bad teacher?. I just came a couple of months ego and.... you are on my detention." Mike said. He appeared astounded, and his baffled expression made her to laugh quietly. She do always come close to detention. Only god knows how she always manages to charm her way out of the punishment. Today was unlike other days.
• "Well, most of my teacher's likes me and they respect my father." She replied and Mike smile.
• Jennifer was stunned for some moments. She had never seen Mike smile. This was the first time. She doesn't know he was capable of smiling. He shared a brief humored moment before he went back to the papers he was grading.
• "I need to finish what I'm doing..Just stay quite. I will let you go when its time." Mike said.
• Jennifer tentatively observed Mike as he was grading the paper. She realized she has never paid much attention to what he looked like. With the cold expressions of his face, he was actually very handsome. He had a short black hair and a pale blue eyes.
• His skin was slightly tan and smooth as if it was was waxed. His beards was well shaved and for the first time, she began to smell his nice perfume.
• Jennifer lowered her eyes, taking in the broad shoulder that was visible from his tight white top. She noticed how large his arm were. His biceps and triceps were well developed. A smile ran across her face as she watch him write a comment on the papers. She watched the way his forearm flexed as he wrote, the size of his palms.
• For half a minute, she was drooling on the same person who is punishing her. She quickly shook her head and averted her gaze. She couldn't believe she'd just been staring at Mike, the hardest teacher in school.