Unexpected • Erick Brian Colón

Chapter 5

Erick's POV

Is she really making us clean her classroom? What is this. I didn't care about being here, but I didn't necessarily want to be here either. Even though Yoandri's here, he isn't in the greatest mood considering this is his first detention and it's my fault. But Claire, she's here. Here's the thing, girls here, they love me. I just have to shoot a glance their way and they're basically putty in my hands. In fact, girls here basically beg for my attention and flirting is kind of a natural thing for me. But those girls, they don't mean much and honestly I don't really care, it's just for fun.

I take the rag and start dusting off random things and I slowly make my way to Claire, who's focused on cleaning. She hasn't payed much attention to me since she's been at this school, but then again I don't think she's really had a good look at me and once she does, it'll be game over for her. I smirk to myself at the thought.

"Hola, hermosa, soy Erick." I say as I get closer. She turns around to look at me and wears a confused look on her face.

"Me?" She points to herself then looking to see if anyone's behind her.

"Who else would I be talking about?" I smirk. She just looks at me and shakes her head.

"Ah, you're that type of guy." She says as she gets back to cleaning.

"What type is that?" I take her chin in between my index finger and thumb to turn her head and look directly into her eyes. That'll make her nervous. No girl can ever resist my eyes.

"The type that plays with girls feelings just to get them in bed, then throw them away." She says, taking my hand off, not even paying attention to me. I don't know what shocks me the most, that she's able to turn me down before I've even said anything or that she doesn't even seem the least bit interested. This has never happened to me before..

"Now you don't know that, you've been here for barely two days, you don't know anything about me." I defend myself.

"It doesn't take much to figure that out." She replies and walks away to clean something else. I wasn't expecting that. It may not be "typical Erick", but I'm not giving up until she's mine. I'm going to have to think of something to get her to acknowledge me before I try anything else though.

Claire's POV 

The only ones cleaning at this point, are Baylie, Olivia, and Yoandri. Zabdiel and Erick are just looking at the things they can find. It's a music class so there are a lot of instruments, obviously, and knowing Zabdiel, I figured it wouldn't take him very long to find a guitar, a piano, or even drums. Just as the thought crossed my mind, I hear a guitar being strum. I turn around to find Zabdiel sitting on a stool and just playing. He's really in the zone because normally, Zabdiel doesn't play in front of people. I'll never understand because he's incredible. He begins playing a familiar tune, Love Yourself by Justin Bieber. Without realizing it, I'm going with the melody and I'm cleaning while moving with the beat of the song. Where the first verse would start, I hear a lovely voice begin:

For all the times that you rain on my parade

And all the clubs you get in using my name

You think you broke my heart, oh girl for goodness sake

You think I'm crying, oh my oh, well I ain't

I turn my head around to see Yoandri, the usually serious and quiet boy, killing every single note. He's amazing! I look over at Zabdiel who's just smiling. Zabdiel looks hesitant but he starts the pre-chorus:

And I didn't wanna write a song

'Cause I didn't want anyone thinking I still care, I don't