Chapter Three

MAYNARD'S P.O.V

Everyone at Lakeside high knew me as the popular jock , the one all the girls wanted .

Well that's what they thought I was and everyone was entitled to their opinion right.

Typical high school bad boy slash player .

Straight out of a book perfect guy , I had the looks grades, the girls and I was the perfect athlete but there was one thing I didn't have .

The one thing I wanted the most in the world and I just couldn't get my hands on it. *sighs*.

Well we couldn't always get what we wanted , that was life .

It was finally Friday , the day I had been waiting for .

Octavia had agreed to help me with my "poor Maths " before we sat for our final exams .

Not to brag or anything but I was one of the best students in this school and Maths was no issue for me .

I could solve Maths with my eyes shut .

And I could bet my last dime on it that Octavia knew too , she obviously knew because she had been present all the times I was receiving awards in front of the whole school.

I mean she was also a straight A student and I wonder what force made her agree and not ask any questions about my tutorship request.

Was it because I had her cornered ?.

Well I did enjoy that and it got me my "tutorship" so yeah it was fine by me.

I could have come up with something smarter to be able to get us together but at that moment that was the only thing that came to mind .

Geez Maynard , she has seen you pick up awards for best Math student and you go right to her and ask her to teach you Math , wow you deserve a Grammy dude.

Such great thinking.

I couldn't think of anything when I saw her so that's how come she'll be teaching me what I already know . Great.

But why did I have a gut feeling she wanted us to get to know each other too , why else would she agree to this .

We had decided to have our study sessions in the library because it was well resourced with books which we had at our disposal and could use at any point of in our discussions.

I left to the library where we were supposed to meet and I had been sitting here for twenty sweet minutes .

Then there came the annoying voice in my head , the negative one.

"Hold on you expected her to come ? You literally went to her and was like Can you please waste an hour or two of your time you can be using to do something productive to teach me stuff I can teach you better" It said .

In a way it was kinda true but anyways I was still going to wait, there was no harm in waiting an extra ten minutes right .

I had a feeling she wouldn't stand me up .

Few minutes later she arrived and I was so relieved.

I was so about to leave .

"Right " The voice in my head teased .

Phew my reputation was intact.

I still held the record for never been stood up , even if it was just for a simple Maths lesson.

"So nice of you to finally grace me with your presence your Majesty " I said sarcastically .

"I'm so sorry , I was caught up in my last class " She said and I guessed she was right because I saw others from her class just enter the library.

And I was not to be questioned as to how I knew her classes , I wasn't a stalker .I just knew it, let's just say I was a genius.

"Apology not accepted your highnesty " I said as I dragged her seat away from her .

She pouted and I was forced to give the chair back to her but no I wouldn't falter .

"You need to apologize" I said feigning anger .

"Okay Maynard , I'm sorry " She apologized reluctantly .

"Can I have my seat now" She smiled her dimpled smile .

"No" I smirked .

"Maynard!!!" She shrieked causing almost everyone in the library to turn towards us and some even had the audacity to whisper.

"Okay fine" I gave up laughing and returned her seat to her.

"Thank you" She said and pulled the seat noisily making the librarian shut her up.

We laughed lowly and she brought out her stuff.

She got out her pencil and wrote Maths neatly above her sheet .

" So we're doing sets today" She said .

"Are you familiar with it " she added given me a "I know you know " look.

I knew sets before I was out of my mother's womb .

I mean I could see a set of intestines , lungs and all from the view I had in the womb or is it?.

"No professor , I have no idea . How is sets even spelt ,teach me your ways madame " I feigned a French accent at the end .

She laughed and shook her head .

"Really mister , you don't know sets?" She asked getting frustrated by the minute as she knew I was just playing with her.

I had made it my mental mission to frustrate her as much as I could and voila it was working.

Ten minutes into the lesson , Octavia was officially frustrated already but was trying her best not to give up on the poor guy she had to teach.

Poor me .

"What I'm saying is , B is a subset of A as in you can get B from A " She said for the thousandth time clearly stressed out .

"Okay but what I don't get it how do you get it out from A , do you subtract , add , divide and how do you do long division while we're at it " I tried my best to stray from the point.

God I was good .

I gradually zoned out while she spoke . She was a cute frustrated person.

I don't know what I felt for her . Maybe I was drawn to the fact that she seemed helpless and wanted to protect her and what better way to do that than to start talking to her.

And then again I wasn't superman , what the hell was I doing.

I had tried many a time to talk to her but whenever I tried was exactly when Ayana decided to become a pestering gum and stick to me . " Hey Maynard , I'm now a new type of gum . Ready to stick to you and annoy you all day long "

That was how she came off sometimes ,

she was fun to have around , could be fun but sometimes she was just too much and it was annoying .

A times football practice also came in the way of me wanting to talk to her but now I got my chance and I wasn't letting go.

But I knew most definitely I didn't like her romantically , I just thought she was cute when upset and I just had this instinct to protect the helpless and she wasn't the first one or was she?.

" Maynard!!! , Are you even listening to me " She said shaking her head . I had finally stressed her to her limits.

Oh oh .

"Well thanks for stressing me out , we're done here and you're an annoying student, you didn't even bring a pen or book ughhhh" She groaned trying to pull her hair out .

Cute , I don't know why whenever a guy complimented a guy it was thought that he liked her .

One could think a puppy is cute and not want to date it duhh.

"Wow easy there tigress "I laughed at her desperate attempt to display her anger.

She stomped her feet and left to return her book to the librarian .

I couldn't help but stare and laugh, oh good job Maynard . Hats off to you.

After her incident some groups went up trying to bring awareness to some things.

Having a sister who loved to baked , she was always like use the fat to grease the pot.

Calling people fat just sounded wrong I mean they weren't margarine.

They called her fat .

I just thought she was sexy and had all the right junk in all the right places and I wasn't quoting Meghan Trainor .

I wasn't being rude but she was a very nice girl and didn't deserve what she went through.

But God honestly needed to be appreciated though .

Look at that body and face and look at all those you came across on I daily basis .

God really was a master crafts man.

She turned and as she came towards me I couldn't help but want to cover her from harm she deserved to be treated like a queen.

And note that this book is also to raise awareness on self care , body shaming , body dysmorphia , depression and all accompanying issues and if you ever need someone to talk to try and talk to a friend it always helps to get it off your chest , suicide is not an option .

Mwah

You're loved!!!!❤