Chapter 16: Our new professor

I opened my mouth and couldn't close it. The shock was all over everyone's face.

Wow... where did this handsome guy come from and what is he doing here in our hall?.

I thought, asking myself.

And I'm sure the rest of the class are thinking the same.

It won't be an exaggeration to say he's handsome and looks hot. No! Not hot alone, he looks beautiful.

Sure, I've seen lots and lots of cute guys but he... he is different. He isn't just cute or handsome, he's beautiful.

I've never seen a man as beautiful as him in my entire life. He's the perfect definition of my dream man.

With dreamy eyes and hands on my jaw, I kept on thinking about the man in front of the class for seconds which felt like minutes.

"Good day class. I'm the new Professor. The one who as from today will start taking the course your retired Professor, Professor Tom used to take....", I heard him say.

"What...?!, the new professor?... Is he kidding?".

I thought, asking myself several questions.

Hearing the murmuring in the lecture room, its obvious everyone wasn't expecting him to be a professor. Most especially the new professor.

I especially thought he was a student in his final year and maybe he has an information for us; but to my horror, he is a professor?.

This delicious candy is a professor?. Wait !, then what was that about been strict and scary?. This man looks innocent like an angel.

Seeing the resction on everybody's face as to how impossible it is to believe he is the new professor, I saw his mouth move and those thin pink kissable lips of his; damn...!

Suddenly realizing my wild thoughts on the new professor, I scolded myself.

"Shame on you Maya..."

I heard him say, "seeing the surprise looks on your faces, it seems you guys weren't expecting me today".

Dave who was still the class rep stood up and said; "pardon our manners Professor, of course we're expecting you today just that were surprised to..."

".... to see a young man rather than an old man?", the new Professor said, helping Dave finish his words.

Carefully without wanting to get on the new Professor's bad side, Dave slowly shook his head positively to the statement and sat down.

Truth be told, no one was expecting a young beautiful man who makes every lady in this room gawk.

Judging from the few minutes he's been here, I haven't seen him smile for once; but as they say 'don't judge a book by its cover', I hope he's not as the rumors describe him to be.

"Well, sorry to disappoint you all by been a young professor rather than the old regular professor you all expected to take over, My name is Jeremiah but for a short you can call me Jerry; Jerry Doyle", the professor said.

"Nice to have you here Professor, you're highly welcome", Dave said, representing us all.

"Thank you. Now leaving the introduction behind, the lesson for today is...", I heard Jerry say but his words sounded distant even when I was there, present in the class.

I just kept on thinking about that name, 'Jerry', I've heard it somewhere. Though I hardly meet people but I'm sure I've not met some called Jerry in particular.

Now thinking about the professor, I looked at him and noticed his jawline, they look well structured and hard. Then, I looked at his lips...

"Oh... my. I can't believe you're this shameless Maya. Get that thiught out of your head".

I scolded myself when I noticed what I'm thinking about again. I just can't explain how I feel, but its like something is pulling me closer to him, it feels like a magnetic force.

"Yes, magnetic force to pull you into trouble", the voice popped into my head again, making me shake it off.

I didn't know how long I was lost in my thought until I suddenly saw Ann carrying a mic in my imaginary thought shouting, "earth to Mayaaa...!!!".

"Snap out of it girl, its time to go", I heard her say and immediately got my bearing.

I could see there were not much people left in the class and my hot professor was already gone.

Remembering him again, I suddenly blushed out of nowhere. I could feel my cheeks warm and can also see the confused look on Ann's face.

But all that were suddenly gone when I noticed Steve was with Issy.

Ann followed my gaze and looked at me; "he said Issy texted him saying she's sick so as a friend he wants to drive her home since it'll take a while for her chauffeur to get here". I heard Ann say.

"That's not an excuse Ann, Steve promised to drive me home and make it up to me but there he is babysitting someone who obviously have two friends to take care of her?, I can't believe this", I said literally burning the pair with my gaze in hell.

"Enough Maya, I know they'd be dead by now if looks could kill", Ann said and I smiled.

"Let's go baby", I said to Ann, crossing my right arm on her left arm like couples walking to a ball.

Due to the anger in me, Ann took the car keys from me and we drove out of the school compound.

I expected Steve to at least tell me he won't be driving me home rather than balling on me at the last minute.

"I can't believe it...!", I said out loud thinking I was only talking to myself until I saw looked at me and asked; "can't believe what?"

"I can't believe Steve would ball out on me at the last minute without any information about what's going on, he promised and broke it", I said, still mad at him.

"He called you but you didn't respond so he thought you were occupied with your work at that moment so he didn't want to disturb. That's why he told me to give you the message once you're done with your note", Ann said and I calmed down.

"By the way, what got you so occupied?. I mean, you were totally out of yourself that you didn't know when the professor went out", Ann asked and I smiled nervously.

"You're busted Maya, how would you confess to your best friend on how much you've striped your new professor countless times?. You wouldn't dare", I thought.

Deciding for the latter, I shook my head and responded, "it was nothing Ann, just thought on how class would be now with a new professor and most especially the news that has circulated about him.

With scrutinizing eyes, Ann looked at me for some seconds before returning her eyes back to the road.

We got home and I headed straight up to my room without bothering to take launch. A lot has been happening in my life lately and I needed to sort them out.

Sighing, I tabled the issues before me and started addressing them one after the other.

The first on my plate is Steve. Steve has been a cool and sweet guy but its a pity those attributes of his didn't have any effect on me. Its in fact because of Steve kind heart that Issy got the chance to get close to him.

Thinking about Issy's attitude to Steve lately, the anger in me returned and I kept on hissing.

Well, its about time I sort my feelings for Steve rather than thinking about Issy pretentious attitude.

I have thought with time, I would get to like him. I thought the more we hang out or spend sometime together, I would fall for him but we've been dating for almost a year and i still feel nothing.

In order to get to know him and fall for him, I decided to always go visit him and spend the night at his place but whenever I go there and we start to kiss, I feel nothing and not just that but I don't even feel any attraction to him.

Steve has been nice and understanding whenever it comes to sex. He has never forced himself on me because I told him I wasn't ready and needed more time.

I've now come to a conclusion that, Steve is not for me and I can no longer tolerate the act of pretending to like him.

I know how bad it'll feel to know someone has been pretending to like me for a year whereas, reverse is the case.

I don't want to waste his time so it'd be best we go our separate ways.

My thoughts decided to wandered on its own. It wandered to that moment.

The moment I saw Jer walked into the lecture room. That moment is so priceless.

As I raised up my head and saw him walk in, my heart skipped a beat and everything around me went silent. It felt like we were the only creature on earth.

I gulped down as I saw his jet black his sway in the direction of the breeze. His thin pink kissable lips looked inviting to have. His sun kissed skin glowed and his jaw line, ohhhh... they looked marvelous.

They had me wondering how hard they be only if I could get a little opportunity to trace and feel them with my index finger.

While Maya was busy thinking about Jerry, her phone rang, distracting from her thoughts.

She frowned before picking up her phone. Loiking at the caller Id, she rolled her eyes and frowned even more.