Chapter Five

  The bell rings and noise immediately erupts in the classroom. The teacher scoffs and continues her announcement ignoring the students who had began to walk out. She walks out when she is through talking and the rest of the class who had remained seated begin walking out also. 

 Will remains in his seat as usual waiting for most of his classmates to leave before attempting to walk out. He still felt debilitated from watching Annie and Jake interact in the cafeteria. Why did she act so different with him?

  Two hands land noisily on Will's table and he is jolted from his thoughts. He looks up to see Jake staring at him with concern. Damn his silly look, Will curses internally and wishes he could punch that concern out of his eyes, but he knew Jake hadn't done anything wrong to him, yet.

  "You have something bothering you, don't you?", Jake asks but Will keeps quiet though resisting the urge to tell Jake that he was the reason for his musing. "Well I guess I'm in no position to ask you since we just met", he mumbles but Will remains quiet. "What do you think about Hannah?", he asks after a pause and Will immediately looks up.

  "What do you mean?", Will replies almost in a snap.

  "I mean, she's pretty and sexy. You ought to have a thought about her or something"

  "Annie and I are friends", Will replies in a tight-lipped manner.

  "What's with the Annie?"

  "It's Genny's doing, beat her up if you have a problem with it"

 "You know, Hannah and I used to date", Jake mutters and finally captures Will's undivided attention. "Leaving her was the hardest thing I've ever done, especially since she loved me so much"

  Will grits his teeth feeling enraged. Annie loved Jake before, probably still loved him. Will closes his eyes trying harder to control his emotions which he was able to detect as a rising anger and another emotion that he couldn't explain.

  Will immediately bolts to his feet and grabs his books.

  "Let's go out, we're the only ones left in class", Will declares and starts walking out. Minutes later, Jake is just catching up with Will and Will is still keeping an aloof expression.

  "Why are you walking so fast?", Jake asks and Will rolls his eyes. "So where do you think Hannah is?"

  'How about you shut up and let me find her?', Will retorts in his mind but remains quiet.

  "Jake", they hear Annie call and turn around. 'That's how it is now? You're calling him instead of me?', Will complains mentally but smiles outwardly.

  "Annie", Will answers as she finally gets close enough to them.

  "How was your class, Jake?", Annie asks and Will is tempted to grab her shoulders and shake them till she realized he was right in her front too.

  "Okay I guess", Jake replies with a lopsided grin.

  "I should get going now", Will announces hoping to catch Annie's interest but she only replies 'bye' and returns to talking to Jake. 

 Will marches to the boys' locker room and takes off his shirt. He walks to a certain corner of the room where punching bags were hanged and begins to browse around the punching bags. He soon finds a bag matching his taste and begins to punch at the bag furiously.

  So she was really ignoring him because of Jake. He couldn't believe that all his attempts to befriend her were rendered useless because of the arrival of her silly ex-boyfriend, that she probably still loved. No girl had ever ignored him like that before, he thinks to himself and gives the punching bag a heavy kick. 

  He angrily walks to a nearby bench and sits down with a huff. Beating up the punching bag wasn't really doing it for him this time. He is still panting and swiping away his streaming sweat when the rest of the Le Cinq guys burst into the locker room.

 "Whoa that's a sweaty Will", Bob hails.

 "Imagine if you walked out into the hallway like this; sweating, shirtless and panting", Dave teases. 

 "All the girls will faint at the sight of those abs", Kenneth laughs.

 "All the girls apart from the girl I want", Will replies dryly and the joking expressions on his friends' faces fade away.

 "Is this about what happened during lunchtime?", Kenneth asks and Will doesn't reply. "I'll take that as a no"

 "When last did you meet up with a girl?", Harrison asks and Will glares at him.

 "What does that mean?", Will spits.

 "She's the only girl you've been hanging out with recently. Harry may be right. You need to fuck some other girl, it'll make you feel better", Bob explains and Will frowns.

 "Fine. But I don't have the motivation to ask any girl out"

 "This ought to be Bianca's role", Dave mutters and Will and Bob glare at him.

 "Don't worry. Since Bianca's not in town, a certain girl in my contact list is in luck. She desperately wanted me to hook her up with you even if it was just for a night", Kenneth proclaims.

 "Who's she?"

 "You remember Nadia, from grade ten?"

 "I already slept with that girl once"

 "Oh, I didn't know. But it doesn't matter. I know you have a rule of not seeing any girl twice, except Bianca, but you really are needy right now", Kenneth argues.

 "Fine, call her and book everything then text me the room number"

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  Will walks out of a motel with his shirt halfway unbuttoned and his hair unruly. He is halfway to his car when he hears his name and stops.

 "What do you want?", he snaps in reply.

 "Won't you at least give me a ride?", A girl replies adjusting her skimpy red halter gown and arranging her scattered blonde hair while managing to hold her pair of shoes as she was walking barefooted.

  Will dips his hand into his pockets and procures some cash. He throws it at her and continues walking to his car. Her expression droops immediately the money touches her but she quickly fiercens up again and angrily picks up the money. 

 "Hey, are you trying to pay me off?", she yells but he ignores her and gets into his car. She tries to run after him as he turns on the car but he drives off leaving her.

 Will brings out his phone as soon as he enters into the main road and calls Kenneth.

  "Hey Ken, let's meet at the club", he says immediately Ken picks up the call.

 "You must be in luck. Dave and Bob are there already, Harry and I are on our way to join them as we speak", Kenneth replies. 

 "Okay, I'm on my way there"

 "Are you done with screwing Nadia already?"

 "We'll meet at the club", Will replies and cuts off the call.

 Minutes later, Will is collapsing into a booth beside his friends who were talking and laughing loudly.

 "So how did it go? You feel better, don't you?", Dave asks with a wink.

 "I feel worse", Will replies and his friends are stunned. "I couldn't sleep with her"

 "What do you mean by that?", Bob inquires in confusion.

 "I tried everything, but she couldn't turn me on. So I thought about Annie, worked immediately, but whenever I heard her moan or even move, I remembered that it was her and not Annie. It was a total turn off for me"

 "So you can't fuck any other girl as we speak? She's the only one you want?", Kenneth tries to clarify and Will slowly nods.

 "Damn, this is huge", Harrison mutters and Will reclines further into his chair in despair.