six

Tyler Anderson

I spent yesterday with thinking about Alice tutoring me.

She just had to speak to me now. No more ignoring me or acting like I'm not even existing.

It's only for school but still... I miss her beautiful voice. The only time I get to hear it is when she talks to Cassie or the other guys.

"Heard you're giving Anderson some tutoring now." Chris voice echoes through my brain and brings me back to reality. Alice swallows her last bite of her sandwich and looks at me, her eyes sparkling with innocents.

"I have to. Never thought it'd be him I have to give tutoring." She smiles and tugs a strand of her chocolate brown hair behind her ear. Oh how I'd love to grip her hair and- nevermind.

"I'll be strict." She giggles, pointing a finger at me.

I roll my eyes at her playfully. It's rare that she's talking to me in front of my friends.

As I took her to the lake last week she was a complete different person. She was talkative and laughed about some jokes I cracked.

The next day in school she went back to ignoring me.

"Don't want to drag you away from these bastards but could I talk to you for a second, baby?" Adam again.

Did he just call her baby? She's not his baby.

Alice gets up and follows him out of the cantine.

"Fuck, did he just call her baby?"

When Daniel brought it up, I let out a loud sigh. "He called us bastards too. That fucker." I ran my hand through my hair again and my face slightly turned to Cassie. "Do you know if they're dating?" She shook her head, her blonde curls bouncing.

"They're not.I think he's just doing it out of provocation." Another sigh escapes me. "Works."

The school bell echoes through the building.

"I'll see you guys later." Kyle,who's been listening to us in silence all along gets up and leaves. The rest of us makes their way to our class too.

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"There you are. I thought you went home already." She sighs as she walks towards me and throws her backpack over her back.

"Why would I? I wouldn't miss a second of you talking to me, gorgeous." She pretends to hate this new nickname I gave her but I can see at the way her face twists when I call her by that nickname that she likes it.

"Hop on. You have to guide me tho. I don't know where you live." She hesitates for a second before I feel her arms around my waist. "Ready?" I ask and she nods.

The smell of delicious food fills the room as we enter the house. "I uh live with my aunt." Alice smiles and closes the door behind her.

"I'm home!" She shouts, her sweet voice echoes through the house and a blonde/brown haired woman approached us, smiling.

She eyes me before giving me another soft smile. "Hello, I'm Susen." "I'm Tyler." I respond. "Oh, you're here for the tutoring, right? I have to admit you're really handsome, Tyler." I don't get that compliment that often. I mostly watch while Daniel and Chris are being complimented.

"Yes I am and thank you very much. Can I call you Susen?" She nods hastily. "Of course you can. Do you guys want to eat? I just finished cooking." Alice looks at me, her pretty blue eyes trying to read my face.

"Do you want to eat first?" She asks softly. "I'd love to." I smile and Susen pulls us with her to the dinner table.

"Mom,  I'm home early." I hear a male voice shout. The voice sounded kinda familiar. "Cole..." I heard the voice say and I turned around. It was Brian. He was one of the closest friends of my brother.

"Wow, hey Tyler. I'm sorry,  you look exactly like your brother from behind." He apologized while ruffling my hair with his hand and then sitting down next to his mother.

My brother was the same when he was my age. Him and his friends always went out together and had their own small friend group like me and my friends.

He kinda lost contact to all of them when he graduated and their ways kinda parted.

That's when he said I could have his motorcycle. I was happy when he gave it to me but I really want to get a new one. I've been saving money to finally get my own.

"You know each other?" Alice asks. "Yeah, me and his brother used to do shit together. Why are you here tho?" His eyes pierced me as if he had to protect Alice.

"I'm giving him some tutoring nothing else. Calm down." She sighs as she places the glass of water at her pink lips and takes a sip.

Brian acted like he didn't even hear what she said and focused on his food. Susen asked me some questions and I had a nice conversation with her.

"Let's go into my room." Alice said, looking at me. I just nod and follow her.

I placed my backpack on the floor and took in her room for a bit.

"Brian gave me his room when I moved in." She said when she noticed me snooping around.

"Why do you live with your aunt tho?" The silence after my question was so loud.

Her eyes didn't meet mine but traveled around her room to avoid eye contact and I could see tears forming in her eyes.

"I'm s-" She cut me off. "My mother died because of cancer, my dad never really wanted to be a dad and my sister..." She scoffs, "I don't even know where she is." Her eyes finally meet mine and I could feel something grow in my lower area. Not the right timing...

Seems like her life is really fucked up. "I uh never really wanted to talk about it but I think I can trust you, right?" I nod. "I never wanted to hurt you with my words, Alice. I know I did and I'm sorry. I thought you'd take it as a joke."

She sits down on the chair next to her desk and pats the second chair. My steps are slow, almost as if I'm walking slow motion until I finally sit down.

There is this kind of tension in the room I can't describe. "Studying and being a good student kinda makes me forget about the pain of missing my mother."

She takes the hair tie that's been around her wrist for the past days- which has already left a red mark- and ties her hair up into a loose bun.

"And I imagine my dad coming back when he sees I'm good in school. It makes me think he'll return to me." Her words make me shiver. I would've never thought a tough girl like her has a story like that to tell.

I opened my mouth again but she cut me off again.

"Let's start. I don't want to talk about it." She pulls out her books. "Uh, so, where do you need help?" Her soft voice tickles my ears. "Mathematics. Definitely." I force out a chuckle.

"Of course. I can help you with that. Take out the test we wrote. I want to see your mistakes." She leaned forward onto her elbows, her breast almost spilling out of her low cut T-shirt.

I could feel my dick twitching. I need to stop with these dirty thoughts. Stop, Tyler. I cleared my throat, "Yes, wait." I said, pulling out my things out of my backpack.

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"So are you and Adam dating?" After we finally finished talking about maths she came back into her room with some lemonade. "No, who told you we were?" She hands me the glass and sits down onto her bed with her glass in her hands.

"No one did. Just thought since he called you baby today." Alice lets a loud sigh escape her lips. "He doesn't want me to talk to you or the other guys. Why did you even hit him at the party? You never told me."

"It's none of your business, gorgeous." My lips touch the glass as I take a sip out of it. "But why not? I really want to know." Why would I tell her about how disgustingly he talked about her? Wanting to fuck her only because she's still a virgin or because no guy has ever touched her or her lips.

Adam is such an asshole, using an innocent girl and her virginity isn't right. If a girl decides to give up her virginity to a guy he should treat her well and comfort her through the process.

I would never have thought Alice never had her first kiss. Why would guys not be all over her or fight to be by her sides when she's so fucking gorgeous. I would definitely say I'm attracted to her even though I didn't plan on being attracted to her.

The thoughts I have about her are dirty...sometimes.

But I would never talk about it in public. Telling everyone how I'd love to fuck the living shit out of her. I know she'd never even let me near her.

She hates me.

She doesn't even want to be friends with me.

She doesn't even want to talk to me.

She probably thinks I'm an arrogant asshole.

She ignores me in school.

All that because of a joke but she still opened up to me today about her mother's death. Will she ignore me in school tomorrow? Yes, probably.

Do I care? No, as long as I can still admire her in silence. She's mine even though she doesn't know it yet. She probably never will.

"Tyler?" My name rolled of her lips. "Because it has nothing to do with you." My words sounded harsher than I expected them to but I couldn't read her reaction on it.

Yes, I punched Adam, because of Alice. Yes, I punched Alan, because of his dirty little mouth about Chris. They deserved every second of it and I would definitely do it again.

"Okay, fine. I won't ask anymore." She crossed her legs and placed her hands onto her thighs, tapping her fingertips onto them. Awkward silence.

"By the way, me and the boys thought about a party at our place in two weeks after we wrote our first exams. Wanna come?" My voice filled the silent room again.

"Yeah, maybe. Will there be alcohol?" My eyes slightly widened at her question. She didn't drink a drop of alcohol at Adams party.

"Sure, Chris will take care of that. I'm sure." She smiled softly.

"Then I'll definitely be there." I get up as it turns silent again. "I think I'll go home now. Me and the boys wanted to go out." She nods and gets up as well.

"I think you did a good job today. You definitely improved. Keep up the good work." She says as she leans against the doorframe. I put my helmet back on.

"Can I get another lesson next week, Mrs. Jones?" A smirk ghosts her lips. "Sure, let me know when you need help and start listening to your teachers in class." I nod.

"I will, see you in school, gorgeous."

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I could feel my blood boiling, my fingertips already turning white as my fists got tighter and tighter every second.

"Like I said. It's none of your business." Her blue eyes eyed me up and down. I can see that they're red and swollen and I knew she was crying in the restroom.

"None of my business? He touched your fucking ass and tried to drag you with him into the restroom." She shrugs. "And? It's not like you have to protect me. Stop punching him every time you see him!" Her voice gets louder.

"Oh so now your protecting him? The guy that touched you inappropriate and wanted to fuck you without your permission?" She rolled her eyes.

"I said it's none of your business! Fuck off!" She yelled at me. I wanted to hold back but I couldn't.

"He could've raped you! You're not a fucking slut,are you, Alice!? You can't let it happen just because you can't open your fucking mouth and say no!" Her eyes widened slightly and tears started streaming down her cheeks.

"Don't ever call me a slut again." A second later she slapped me across the face, my cheek started stinging shortly after. "Fucking bastard." And into who's arms did she run and cry? Right, into Adams.

We'll write our exam in less than twenty minutes. My class and hers. Adam wanted to cheat and wanted Alice to help him pass the exam.

She friendly declined but he wouldn't stop asking. After some time he started to touch her and grab her ass, tried to pull her into the restroom to "punish" her.

She ran off and I punished Adam but of course Adam was the victim again and started yelling at me why I punched him.

I asked her why he did that even though I knew. I want her to realize what he did but seems like she doesn't really care. Adams plan about fucking her will definitely work if she doesn't start opening her fucking eyes anytime soon.

I didn't directly call her a slut. I asked her if she wants to be treated like one because that's what it looked like.

I had my tutoring lesson yesterday because of this week's exams. Of course she ignored me today. She hates being seen talking to me.

I can get through these exams without cheating and it's the first time I can say this with confidence.

As we entered the big classroom twenty minutes later the adrenaline started rushing through my veins.

I kinda felt nervous. "I'll fail anyway." Chris yawned and sat down beside me. "How about you, Anderson? How did your tutoring go?" I smirked and him. "You'll see I'll be the best soon. Even better than Kyle." Kyle heard what I said and rolled his eyes at him.

Shortly after our teacher came in and started to hand out the worksheets. "You have ninety minutes to finish this exam. When I catch someone cheating you'll have to hand me your paper and it'll have consequences." He sits down onto his chair. "You can start now."

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I never had such a good feeling when I handed in my exam. Thanks to Alice I could fill out everything.

"How did it go boys?" Noah asks as we leave the classroom. "I think I won't even graduate with y'all." Chris snorts.

"Mine went really well." I smile. "Tutoring seems to work, huh?" Daniel grins and licks his lips.

Suddenly Miss Adams stood in front of me.

"Mr. Anderson? Could you follow me into my office,please?" I look at Kyle confused who just shakes his head, not knowing what's going on either.

I then nod and just follow her into her office.

"Tyler, I heard you caused a disturbance in the corridor before the exam. You know that violence is strictly forbidden at this school." Her dark eyes sent a cold shiver down my spine.

"A student was almost raped. I was just trying to help." My fingernails dug into my pants. "I heard something else. The student who reported it to me said you attacked his classmate for no reason." My head fell back and I let out a loud groan.

"Listen Mrs. Adams. I know exactly who reported this to you and I also know that this student wants nothing more than to ban me and my friends from this school. He even tried to blame Chris for setting the soccer field on fire, but why would he do that when Kyle - who is his friend - plays on that field himself." My right hand ran through my hair.

"He's trying to make life difficult for me and my friends, including your son. If I tell you that a student was almost raped in front of my eyes, why don't you believe me?" She leans back in her chair.

"You're bad company for my son anyway. I'll let you get away with it one more time, Tyler. But if I hear anything again you will be suspended. Now, go."

She didn't want to talk to me any second longer  because she turned away from me.

I left her office and saw Chris waiting for me.

"Alan and Adam those fucking bastards." He looked at me questioningly. "Is it because of the situation earlier?" "Of course it is. Alan snitched that I hit Adam but got the whole story twisted."

I sigh as we leave the school building. "Wanna take a ride with me later? Need to get my head of this shit." I ask him as I put on my helmet.

"Fast late night drive?" I nod. "Sure, bro." He smirks.