Opposites attract

You wanna go to a party?

Blakely's POV
"You have 2 hours to complete this test, there will be 5 minutes reading time at the start. Until I have indicated so, you are not to pick up your pens. Any questions?"
No one said anything so the teacher took that as a no. "Alright" he began as he glanced at his wrist watch, "your reading time begins...now".

Everyone flicked the cover page over and began scanning the pages in a scurry. It was dead silent, so every cough and every tick of the clock that was hanging above the board could be heard perfectly.
I worked at the same pace I had in all the practice exams I'd done over the past few weeks. They all ended with me having exactly 2 minutes left at the end.

I didn't give myself a chance to over think any of the answers and I didn't allow myself to under-think them either. I had my game face on, something I thought I'd lost in the past few months. I felt like the old Blakely, the Yale Blakely, the straight A's and perfect attendance Blakely.

I was smiling ever so slightly to myself when I finished circling the last answer on the multiple choice question. I was certain on the answer just as I had been for most of the questions before.

I still made myself go back through the paper as many times as it took until our time was up. As soon as all pens dropped everyone began chatting quietly amongst themselves.
We were quickly told off though until the bell for lunch rang and everyone got to leave the dreaded examination room.

That had been my final test and by far the one I felt best about. It had been a long and stressful week to say the least. I'd had at least one exam every day so I had barely slept a blink that entire week. Coffee was without a doubt my new best friend.

"How'd you go?" Ah Lucas, he had just sat the same exam as me and judging by his expression he wasn't very confident. Lucas and I were civil in public now, ever since we'd kissed...again, we had began talking more at school. Everyone was confused and we both noticed them staring but Lucas didn't seem to give a hoot.

"Good I hope" I answered glancing up at him.
"Of course you did" he grinned throwing his arm around me. "You never know" I sighed with a shrug, "I could've absolutely flunked it".
"You don't give yourself enough credit" he accused as we began walking down the hallway, "all you've been doing the past month is studying! There's no way you flunked it".
I shrugged unaware what else to say or do, "what about you?" I tried to take the attention off me.

"I guess we'll see, won't we" Lucas smiled, "at least it's over".
"We should celebrate" I suggested stopping so I could face him and discretely roll his arm off my shoulder. Even though we were better than we had been before, I still didn't feel comfortable getting handsy with him, especially not in public.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't like it. Sometime -usually when we were alone- I would even instigate it myself. I knew I couldn't be with him right now because of everything that happened but it was impossible not to want to be close to him. Unfortunately it felt as though every time I let him rest his hand on my thigh, or play with my hair I was only left wanting more. Furthermore, it was worse when we just talked. I could never reject his phone calls anymore, and I couldn't even keep myself from calling him. I tried to justify it as being there for him about his dad and while that was definitely a big part of it I also knew that wasn't all it was, I just wanted more of him all the time.

"What did you have in mind?" He smirked raising an eyebrow. Typical Lucas, all he ever did was flirt and I really wished that I was more against it. "That's not what I meant" I rolled my eyes as an attempt to hide how flustered I truly felt, "I heard there's a party tonight" I don't know why the words left my mouth, they just did. Whenever I was nervous or uncomfortable I would spit out the first thing that came to my mind, it always got me into trouble and this was a clear example of that. I hated parties and I most certainly didn't want to go to one.

"You wanna go to a party?" Lucas laughed in an almost condescending tone. Would that be so crazy? It annoyed me a little more than I expected how well Lucas knew me and how often he called me out on it.
"So what if I do?" I challenged.
"Who's party?"
"Carly, she actually invited me" I recalled, slightly smug that it was true.
"Oh and you want to go do you?" Lucas folded his arms and raised an eyebrow.
I didn't appreciate his tone, it was almost mocking, as if it were a joke and he was just entertaining the idea, like you do with a little kid who just came up with a stupid idea.

"I am going" I snapped folding my arms too.
"No you're not" he laughed lightly shaking his head. I felt my face get hot, but for once it wasn't out of embarrassment, it was out of anger, as if he could stop me from going somewhere!

"Oh yeah? Why not?" I challenged.
Lucas' teasing expression got more bitter as he glared down at me, "Carly's party is Alex's party and any party where Alex has a say in what goes down isn't one I think you should go to".

"You can think whatever you want, but I'm still allowed to go if I want, Lucas" I couldn't believe myself when I stomped my foot. Neither could Lucas apparently, he forced back a smile then shook his head, "You're not going".
"Am too" I argued.
"Blakely, I get you're all feminist and hate the idea of a guy telling you what to do, but I've been to these parties, they're not like your normal high school parties, it's not acceptable to just show up and stand in the corner. It's barely acceptable to just get a little drunk, people go hard and I don't want you to be around that" he explained desperately.

If I weren't so stubborn maybe I would've listened to him, what he said made sense, and I didn't even want to go to the stupid party, but Lucas had told me I wasn't allowed, every petty bone in my body itched for me to go directly to that party the second it was on.
"I can look after myself" I snapped, "I'm going to that party" then with that I turned away from him and continued walking to the cafeteria.

It didn't take much for Lucas to catch up with me, and even less for him to keep up, "then I'm going too, I guess" he shrugged.
I stopped walking just to glare at him but I knew there was really nothing I could do, "you're so annoying" I huffed before continuing at a faster pace to the cafeteria.
Guys this part is super short and for that I'm really sorry!! Not much happened but I promise this is just the tea boiling, it'll spill soon I promise!