First day of tuition.

Chapter 7.

First day of tuition.

Adrian's pov.

I woke up the Monday morning and stretched from edge to edge on my bed, which resulted in a crack sound like the bed was breaking, then, I felt my elbows were in lesser pain, and my head was completely healed, the drugs I took from the doctor really worked and thank God that I remembered to grab the drugs before leaving the hospital.

I was trying to escape from that hot and handsome man, and almost forgot to collect the drugs but I remembered just before I left completely and ran back into the hospital to grab it before scurrying away from its vicinity.

I had only managed to go to the bar to work, when I got out of the hospital as it was evening already and I had to work for the money.

I avoided Ryan throughout the night at work and every time he asked me 'Where was I in the morning?' I would just press my lips together and pretend as if I couldn't hear him and he gave up later, he must have noticed that I was not ready to say a word to him and the sleeve shirt I wore the day of the accident helped me in covering my pains from the piercing eyes of everybody.

When we were working and I mistakenly hit the elbow with a customer when I was trying to escape from harassment, it was so painful that I rushed to the restroom to weep and Ryan noticed that I was not okay, but what could he do? I wasn't ready to say anything.

My family too has been trying to know what's up with me that every time in the house, I have been walking about with either a sweater or a long sleeve. I lied to them that I was catching a serious cold. May God forgive my lies.

I got up from my bed and let out a yawn. I dragged my feet towards the bathroom feeling so anxious and reluctant. The tuition with my new lecturer would begin that day immediately after class, and I would be going for just one of my shifts later, which was at the bar.

I bathed and dressed in blue faded jeans and a white long-sleeve T-shirt, wore my favorite worn-out sanders, and carried my school bag before leaving the room.

"Sweetheart, come over for breakfast." Mom called out to me and I had no choice but to wait for a bite or two.

I settled on the seat in our dining room and mom dished out the food, pasta, just pasta. I sighed when I saw it. "Come on, that's the only thing in the house. Don't worry, I will buy some food stuff when I'm coming back from work, just manage this now." She said she must have noticed my mood.

I took hold of her hand that was on the table and pecked it, "Don't worry Mom, I'm good and you shouldn't waste the money to buy any foodstuff, Galton's school fees will be due tomorrow and we have to pay up. Just add the money to his fees and I will buy the food stuff." I told her and made a mental note to get the foodstuffs while coming back home.

She became emotional and pulled me into her embrace, weeping. "Every time, I thank God for giving me you, and now, I'm just the luckiest mother on earth." She told me and I chuckled.

"I'm the luckiest daughter too," I told her, and disengaged from the embrace, I began to eat immediately. "Where is Galton by the way?" I questioned her.

"Oh yeah! Ryan came earlier and took him to school, that's all Ryan's idea, by the way, no one forced him." Mom knew that my next question would be 'Why did you allow Galton to force him into taking him to school?' And that was why she quickly bailed herself out.

I ate in silence while Mom got herself engaged in cleaning the house.

A bike horn called my attention from outside and I jolted. "Ryan is back." I stood up as I was done eating and I quickly washed my plates. "I'm off to school Mom."

"Stay safe." She shouted back.

I went to meet up with Ryan, who was patiently waiting for me outside our house. "Good morning best." I greeted him with a peck before collecting the helmet from him and getting on the bike.

I noticed that he didn't reply to me immediately, when I peeked at him from behind, I saw that he had his hand holding his cheek and he was smiling at himself, daydreaming. "Really?" I shouted into his ear before spanking his head,

"Ouch! Adrian, did I offend you before?" He shouted holding his head and almost losing control of his stand and thereby, almost causing us to fall.

"Instead of you to start driving us to school, you are busy thinking of another girl? Tell me, who is the lucky girl? Is it Miller?" I teased him but he didn't find it funny.

"Miller? That's bullshit! Why not you?" He replied, slightly angry, and started the bike before driving us off to school.

Miller was a girl in our school who had a huge crush on Ryan, but he hated her, and every time I used her name to tease him, he always got angry like now.

Like, I don't understand, Miller was a beautiful girl and she could kill for him, so I don't know what caused Ryan's hatred for her, like she killed him in his first life or betrayed him or did something evil to him, like he had met her before from somewhere which was not school. I don't even want to keep on thinking about that.

We got to school and Ryan packed the bike at the parking lots. "I'm sorry." I apologized to him when he was not ready to talk to me.

"You should be, but still, you won't listen." He told me before leaving.

I shrugged, knowing fully well that he would still come around later, definitely before the end of the day. With that thought, I left for my lectures.

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It was the end of the day's lecture, time for my tutorial with the lecturer, I had dropped a message for Ryan that he should leave before me as I would be waiting for the tutorial and he left. He wouldn't have gone if his mom hadn't called him for an emergency.

I walked steadily towards Dr Raphael's office and when I arrived, I placed a light knock on his door and his husky voice resounded. "Come in."

I opened the door and gently entered before shutting the door behind me, "Good afternoon Dr Raphael." I greeted him with a slight bow, flickering with the strap of my bag my eyes fixed on the floor, and my heart beating rapidly like it would bust out of the ribcage.

I suddenly realized that coming to him was a mistake in the first place, I should have just politely turned down his offer and help and should have just failed with gladness. I didn't even want to start thinking of how the other students or lecturers would see me if they realized that I was waiting behind in a lecturer's office for tuition.

I was still in thought when a sticking stink pecked my forehead. "Ouch!" I moaned in pain, clenching to the spot and I looked up to know the source of the pain only to see that it was from my lecturer. "Dr Raphael," I called in shock and took a step backward to create a space between us as he was just in front of me, almost swallowing me up with his body.

"I was talking to you and you were busy in thought, no wonder you kept on failing." He said with an eye roll before going to settle down on the sofa inside the office.

"I'm sorry Dr Raphael, I'm just.......just...." Oh shit! That was one of the hardest days in my life, it was so awkward and I was feeling weird. Feeling almost dead with embarrassment and a part of me just wanted to turn back and run for my life.

"It's fine, let's get this done with and you cannot do that while still standing there, can you?"

"No, no, Dr Raphael." I quickly replied to him and rushed to sit beside him, making sure to keep a meaningful space between us.

I got ready for the extra class, making up my mind not to make any sort of body contact with the lecturer, I was greatly avoiding any sense of emotional feelings too, making the boundary clear and thick. He was my lecturer and I was only his student.

"So, what do you understand in literature? You can't possibly be that dumb."