Chapter 11

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Ryan's pov
I watch her leave, her long brown hair falls over her shoulder as the wind blows through it. She's so beautiful.
I know this is wrong. I'm her teacher for fuck sake. But she's 18 soon and I'm only 21. I can't stop thinking about her, the feel of her heart beating against my chest when I'm holding her. I just need to see her again, it's killing me.

Sophs pov
I have a warm shower to try and get my mind off the mess that my life is and then wrap myself in a towel and lie on my bed.

Ryan- come over?

I read the lit up message from Ry on my phone and can't help but blush.

Sophie- it's 12am Ry and I'm not dressed.

I realised how unnecessary that was after I sent it. He didn't need to know I wasn't dressed. I didn't mean anything sexual by it, just telling the truth.

Ryan- Brb, climbing in your window 😏

I giggle to myself at the thought of him doing that and a part of me wished that he would.

Sophie- funny. I'll be over in a bit x

Ryan- looking forward to it xoxo

Ryan-  looking forward to it xoxo

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Sophie- you're such a dork💗

I change into pyjama shorts and a tight singlet, I usually wear an oversized shirt without shorts to bed but I figured I shouldn't show up to Ryan's in that although he'd probably appreciate it.

I tip toe down the stairs in the hope that nobody wakes up and sneak outside the house. I turn and see Ryan's silhouette facing me from his veranda and although he can't see my face in the dark, I can't help but smile.
"Hey beautiful" Ryan smirks as I step up onto his veranda.
"Hi" I smile, looking into to his gorgeous blue eyes. He puts his arm on my back and looks around outside before following me into his house. I get the sense that he's more protective of me now, since the incident after Max's party. It feels nice, I feel safe with him around.
"You want anything? Water, tea?" He says heading to the kitchen whilst I walk around aimlessly.
"I'm fine"
"Am I the only one that thinks that what we're doing is wrong?" Ryan asks randomly.
"I mean don't get me wrong I'm completely in love with you sophie, but I can't help but feel like I'm taking advantage of y.."

"No, you're not Ryan." I interrupt. "Please don't say that, it makes me worried that you're going to leave. The only thing that is 'wrong' about us is that you're my teacher our age gap isn't even the problem there are 15 year olds dating 20year olds, that's wrong, not an 18 year old dating someone 3 years older, 3 years is nothing" I blurt out in a matter of seconds, trying to get my point across before Ryan thinks about it too much.
"Wow wow, hey I'm not leaving you" he frowns, seeing that I'm sad and grabs my face with his strong, warm hands, planting a kiss on my forehead. "I'm not leaving you" he repeats and I take a deep breath, relief fills my body.
"I'm sorry, I'm just scared of what's going to happen if people do find out, will we just be over?" I say and he grabs my hand and leads me to the loungeroom.
"I'm scared too soph" he says taking a seat. I sit next to him and lean my head onto his shoulder. "But we're gonna figure this out, I don't know how I'd live without you. You're the only person I feel myself around and I love you so much for that"
I grab his face and kiss him passionately, moving my leg over his so I'm straddling him. He grabs my waste and pulls me closer to him, our lips still locked. "And you're fucking sexy" he whispers through our kiss and I smile against his lips.
After making out for about 5 minutes, someone knocks on the door. "Ryan its me"
I look at Ryan confused and he looks at me with the same expression and mouths the word 'my mum'.
I jump up off of Ryan, frantically trying to find somewhere to hide. Ryan quickly leans across the lounge and grabs a pillow, placing it over his crutch to hide his boner. "My room" he whispers and points upstairs. I quietly run upstairs and into his room before shutting the door.
"It's open" Ryan calls out.

Ryan's POV
"You really shouldn't leave your door unlocked, you're asking to be robbed" she groans and steps inside.
"How bout a hey son how are you? Havn't since you in 4 years" I look over at her from the couch, still covering my crutch with a pillow, this is really bad timing. "Why are you even here? It's 1am"
Mum rolls her eyes, completely ignoring my comment. "I thought I should drop in to tell you that your dads been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer"
My heart stops for a second. How can she say that so casually. I mean my mum has never been the caring type, once her and my dad split when I was 10, I lived with Mum and only saw dad on the weekends and they never spoke, but he's going to die for fuck sake, surely she can show just a bit of emotion.
I basically was a parent to my mum as a child. She'd get drunk every night, id make dinner, clean up her vomit, get myself to school etc. and she never really showed any appreciation for it. I think that's why her and dad split, she took too much for granted. I remember how excited I'd get for those weekends, playing soccer with dad and cooking together, it was the only time I felt like a kid.
"Did you hear me?" Mum says. Agh I can't stand her.
"Yes I fucking heard you" I raise my voice.
"Ryan!" Mum says shocked, "some respect for your mother, I havnt seen you since you were 17 and I've just found out I'm going to lose the father to my child, the man I loved"
So now she acknowledges the amount of time she hasn't seen her son. It's her fault she hasn't seen me for this long. I want to scream, let out everything that I've been holding in for my whole life but I won't, not with Sophie just upstairs.
"You never loved him" I mumble under my breath.
"What was that!" Mum says
"Just get out please"
"Ryan, you're being dramatic
"Mum, I swear to god if you don't leave.."
Mum walks to the door and turns to me once more, "don't know what hospital he's at, message your aunt" she says finally before shutting the door behind her.
I hear a creek at the top of the stair case and see Sophie. By the look on her face, she heard everything.
"Ry" she frowns and walks down the stairs towards me, sitting and draping her legs over the pillow that still rests in my lap and places her arms around my shoulder.
"I'm guessing that's why you never talked about your parents with me?" She strokes my cheek with her hand but I don't look at her. I have always hated crying in front of people so I concentrate on a crack in the wooden floor, hoping that I can hold back my tears. I know I shouldn't care with Sophie but I guess growing up with the lack of emotion my Mum showed, I thought it was weird, especially for guys to cry in front on people.
"You know you can cry, it's okay" soph says. Her voice is so soothing, she makes me feel worth it, like I actually mean something.
I shift my focus from the floor to Sophie's gorgeous green eyes and a tear rolls down my cheek. "I love you so fucking much"
I breath deeply in between her kiss, trying to hold back more tears but I'm not afraid anymore. I know I can be myself with her.
"I love you too" she breathes and looks up into my eyes. "Now" sophie says, breaking our gaze and removing her legs from my lap. "You probably need time to process this but when you're ready, we can talk to your Aunty and visit your dad okay?"
I force myself to smile, knowing that when I do visit my dad or see any of my family, sophie won't be able to come.
"Yeah, sounds good"
"Great, movie?" She kisses me again.

We only got half way through The Avengers before soph dozed off. I carried her up to my bed and fell asleep with her in my arms.

Sophie's POV
I wake up to Ryan's perfect body next to me. He looks so peaceful when he's sleeping.
Shit! I check my phone and my heart stops. "10am!" I say out loud.
"Hmm?" Ryan groans, still half asleep.
"Ry I gotta run" he rolls over and opens his eyes. "Why" he frowns.
"I shouldn't of fallen asleep, Mums definitely awake now and I'm not home, who knows what she's thinking!" I start to freak out.
"Babe, calm down it's gonna be okay. You could've just been picking up English homework or something"
"It's 10am Ry, mum doesn't sleep in, she'll know I've been gone for hours"
I run down stairs and Ryan follows.
"Call you later?"
"Yea, love you" Ryan says and I give him a peck on the lips. "you too" I say before leaving his house and closing the door.

"Sophie?" I hear my mum call out from next door. Shit.
I slowly turn around to face her and I can feel myself go white, I feel like I might faint.

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Hope you guys are enjoying the story!!! I wanted to bring in a bit more backstory to Ryan, so he's not just defined as the 'teacher'.
Feel free to comment your opinions just please don't be too harsh as I'm doing this for fun, not because I think I'm a good writer :))

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