Chemistry assignment

"Look just hold still will you?" Daniel pleaded as he felt frustration enter him.

"No!" Chloe moved her head stopping him from trying to clean up the blood on her lip.

"Chloe please just stop it"

"Why should I? I don't want your charity or fake kindness!" Chloe barked in anger leaving the male to huff before the nurse took over and tried to clean up the cuts Chloe had, to his slight annoyance she didn't resist as much with the nurse and frowned.

'Stubborn girl' he muttered to himself at how she was acting, even if it didn't make sense. She didn't trust him thanks to before.

"Who says I was pretending?" Daniel asked bluntly while Chloe rolled her eyes disdainfully.

"And second I never spoke ill of you anyways" Daniel added as he looked at her eyes that showed nothing but disbelief.

"Yeah like I am going to fall for that!" Chloe snapped before wincing from her lip which stung from the pain of the antibacterial wipe that was being used to clean her lip.

"Sorry about that sweetie" the nurse said with a kind smile as she continued to clean and patch up the injuries.

"What do you want me to say?" Daniel asked as his frown darkened. "I didn't respond since it was pointless to get involved" Chloe almost scoffed and shook her head.

"Please… don't lie-"

"Aren't you being judgmental?" Daniel snapped as he interrupted her, she gave him a dark look for the comment.

"You've been accused of something you didn't do and yet here you are having a go at me for something without even asking for my side of the story"

"And you're so innocent?" Chloe asked sharply while he glared.

"Innocent of the crime you're accusing me of" Daniel barked in the same tone as he folded his arms.

"Jeez for someone who should know how this feels, you are just like them" Chloe's eyes narrowed before Daniel's face was sent to the side shocking both the nurse and him.

"You have no right to say that! How dare you act all high and mighty when you haven't exactly proven that you're innocent!"

"And you have?" Daniel challenged "Honestly Chloe you're such a hypocrite!" Chloe froze and glared.

"Am I hypocrite? Even when I've made things perfectly clear that I want nothing to do with you?" Chloe replied as she glared at him.

"Please don't argue" the nurse pleaded but was ignored.

"Why?" Daniel asked crossly before she stood up and faced him, her eyes so full of anger the more she glared at him.

"Well let's see the fact that you can't stop staring at me which is weird and I don't like it! There's also the humiliating speech you made about me in front of everyone in our class" she added angrily as she pointed him in the chest for each reason she gave out to him.

Daniel each time winced from how hard she poked but refused to let up.

"And you know what even then I didn't trust you! So take the hint! I want nothing to do with you!" Daniel went silence as she glared at him, his hair shielded his eyes as his head went down slightly.

"You! Your girlfriend AND her friends! I want nothing to do with people who made my life a living hell and I've dealt with that for years, first the geeky girl now the girl who supposedly killed her only best friend! If you were me, would you have been able to handle it? Would you?!" she asked sharply as Daniel continued to remain silent as he heard her words, but showed no reaction that her words had hurt him at all.

"Answer the question Daniel because you've made it pretty clear that I'm a hypocrite along with other things you've described me as" she added angrily, Daniel bit his lip before walking away leaving her more angry.

"Good! Don't bother me again then!" she huffed before sitting back down and looked at the shocked nurse who then silently began to resume what she had been doing, slightly unnerved by the argument between the pair but said nothing knowing that it was best not to get involved.

The lessons next day were tense and slightly odd as Jenny had not turned up for college today much to everyone's surprise.

It was unlike her though to not show up since she would never miss a chance to hurt and insult Chloe.

Who in fact was actually waiting for the girl to show up and do something to make her wish that she had not fought back yesterday. However surprisingly the ginger haired girl did not show.

Even some were gossiping about it before Mr. Williams or Miss Willows had silenced them to get to their studies.

Daniel was also quiet to the class, although it could because Jenny was not trying to get him to have a conversation with her.

Plus her friends were if they would admit it were slightly intimidated by his appearance and attitude to even think about talking to him.

Some girls in the class had at times planned to flirt or ask him if he and Jenny were an item before the teachers frowned at them for speaking at all when they were to be quiet.

Despite all this Chloe wasn't much bothered since she didn't truly care, after all Jenny had truanted in high school and ended up getting passes in their final exams. So why should this bother her?

Also what left her slightly on edge was that Daniel had looked at her almost three times today but made no hints of going to speak to her.

In fact he didn't bother her during lunch to her relief but regardless it didn't help her relax with her lunch.

"Alright people just as you know I'm setting up some assignments" Mr. Williams' words caused them to look up.

"This involves the fact that you will all be working in pairs for a few weeks" Mr. Williams said cheerfully causing some to become eager to work with who they wanted to be with while Chloe rolled her eyes.

Knowing that she'd be working alone again since no one would want to work with a 'murderer', not that she cared since this would mean less hassle for her.

"And since we have a full house this means that everyone gets a partner" Mr. Williams said before a hand belonging to Agatha who was Jenny's friend.

"Um Mr. Williams" Agatha asked wearily.

"Ah yes Agatha, is there something wrong?" Mr. Williams asked with a smile while she winced.

"Jenny's not here" Agatha explained causing him to look at the empty table and sigh.

"True, however given that Daniel was the extra student making the class a total of twenty one, this in turn means that Jenny when she comes back will be working in a group of three. Does that help?" Mr. Williams asked still smiling even though Agatha and her friends were not, after all her friend was not picking up her phone or answering her texts.

"Okay so the pairs before you stand up" Mr. Williams had to almost laugh at how eager they were to be working with their chosen pairs, he could see it in their eyes at who they were going to pick. However this is where he came in.

"I will be choosing the groups" immediately he was greeted by loud groans by people who were protesting, Chloe however rolled her eyes knowing that she now definitely had to work with someone she didn't like since she didn't get along with anyone in the class thanks to Jenny and her group.

Who in fact had made it harder for Chloe to be friends with anyone in the class. Suddenly the room went silent as she was mentally muttering to herself about how she had to put up with the person her teacher had assigned her with.

Blinking she looked around the class to see silent but shocked students before looking at her peppy teacher.

"Um sorry sir?" Chloe asked as she tilted her head.

"I said Chloe that you'll be working with Daniel here for your chemistry assignment" The teacher replied politely not minding that her mind had been elsewhere.

It was then that Chloe went pale and slowly looked at Daniel who was equally shocked while they ignored the whispers over everyone in the class.

The teacher however paid no heed as he continued to read out names. Only Chloe was too shocked and unhappy to care, for of all the people she had to be partnered with- it had to be him! Talk about an unwanted inconvenience.