Briar

Chapter 4

"Bye mom. Love you!" I shout to her as I close the car door and walk to the school. Today is my second day here and I'm pretty excited. I get to see my best friend. Best friend, is she my best friend? I really hope so. 

I'm also excited to see Diego and Alec. Well maybe not Alec so much from our encounter the other day. 

I enter the school and head straight to my locker. Same classes as usual, how boring. "Bri!" That same loud voice calls out to me from the hallways. Students turn their head to see what the commotion is.

"Hey Cece." I greet her.

"Hi so how dumb of me but I forgot to ask for your number yesterday." She replies and holds her phone out to me. She wants my number? That's great.

"Yeah of course." We exchange numbers and head to class as the bell rings. 

Classes are as boring as ever. 4 hours later it's finally lunch time. I'm not dreading it as much as I did yesterday. At least now I can sit with someone without having to stand there awkwardly. Cece and I grab our lunches and head outside.

"Hey girls! Over here!" We turn our heads to the voice of Diego who waves his hands. Cece and I giggle and walk over there. "Sup ladies." 

"Hi Diego." Cece and I say at the same time as we take a seat. "Where's your friend.....Alex?" Cece questions as she takes a bite out of her apple.

Yeah, where is he? Did he ditch school? For some odd reason I kind of feel disappointed when he doesn't show up. I mean he doesn't even talk to me so why would I feel sad? I was actually looking forward to spying on him at the library. Who knows, maybe he decides to show up after all. 

"Uh he's coming later. Something about 'business'." Diego says quoting business. "But he should be here for elective classes."

We have 2 elective classes at the end of the day. Yesterday Alec showed up to one of my elective classes, then he showed up to my other one. What is he, stalking me? He was here before me so I can't judge. I get this feeling of excitement when Diego says that. 

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"Okay you may get started." Our professor says as she takes a seat back down behind her desk. It's the last class and Alec still hasn't shown up. Where is he? 

Wait, why am I even bothering with him? We're not even friends. Just let it go and get back to work Briar. I regain my focus back on the painting that we're doing. I decided to do a nice painting of a swan on a lake. 

I add some blue here and there just as the door opens. "Mr. Hart. You're late. Take a seat and begin your painting." Our professor instructs him. I turn my attention back to my painting when I feel that presence yet again. I look up and am met with those brown orbs. Holy cow. Was it always this glowing.

"Nice painting." His deep husky voice brings me out of my trance. I clear my throat and mumble a 'thanks' and get back to painting.

Why is he sitting next to me? There's like 4 more open seats. 2 of them are by themselves. He takes the seat and angles his canvas away from me. So the back is facing me. Then he moves his chair to the corner so that his canvas blocks my view of his perfectly sculpted beautiful face. Calm down Briar it's just a face.

Yeah, a very beautiful one. Shut up.

He gets right into his painting. I can feel him sneaking glances at me from time to time. What the heck is he doing? I shrug and face myself the other way. If he doesn't even want to look at me or sit by me, then why choose the same table as me? Weirdo.

45 minutes have passed and class is ending in about 10 minutes. "Alright class, let's see what you've got so far." The professor says as she walks around looking at the students work. Not gonna lie they seem better at me. 

Then she approaches our table and looks at my canvas. "Very good Briar." She compliments me. I know right, it is good. Then she walks towards Alec and steps behind him. Her eyes widen and a proud smile forms onto her face. "Wow, this is.....amazing Alec. Students come take a look." She says and she waves her hand for everyone to come. 

Gasps echo through the room and I even heard one say "Woah that shit is fucking amazing." Calm down with your language sir. So I decide to get up and see what this ruckus is all about. 

And it's safe to say I would say the exact same words as that dude who just sweared. The painting in front of me is like as if a professional created it. I mean I guess Alec is a professional considering this looks real. 

He painted me. Wait, he painted me? What? Why me? Why not the dude who sweared? I guess that's why he moved away. A blush forms onto my cheeks before I even catch a breath.

"Why did you chose this Alec?" The professor says.

"You said to paint the first thing that comes to your mind. So I did." He replies with a shrug. 

Hold up. Did he just admit that he was thinking about me? How in the heck? We barely even said 2 words to each other. Is he crazy? But I do look good in the painting if I do say so myself.

Okay. Um. This is weird. "Oh would you look at that. We have 3 minutes left everyone can go ahead and start cleaning." Everyone leaves our desk but I stay locked in place. I look like a goddess. I'm standing to the side with a rose in my head, sniffing it, while angel wings come out from my back. Clouds surrounding the area. And it's not even fully colored yet.

My heart skips a beat. Can I keep it? No why would I? But why would he paint me? Shut up Briar. 

"You can keep it." He tells me after I just stared at it for what felt like 100 years.

"Huh?" 

"I said you can keep it. Once it's finished of course." He says scratching the back of his neck. It's then do I really get a good look at his tattoos. It's not a full sleeve but patchwork. A snake is tatted up his arm. Dang that's hot. Then he brings his hands up and runs them through is hair. His rings shining as they do so.

Holy cow this man is definitely created from God. 

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