chapter sixteen

""you're right, Nick is an angel and a devil at the same time, lucky you. I'm so jealous you have a lover like him" maxim said and Joan turned towards her shocked

"lover?! Nick is not my lover, but my childhood friend, don't say such words again" she said and left

the next day maxim apologized for what she said and they went to class, through out the lesson Callum eyes never left Joan and she became uncomfortable, when class closed he approached Joan and her friends and tried to get close to them, he succeeded with Joan's friends but Joan was a hard nut to crack.

one day, Kimmy and Maxim invited Callum for a day out

"what's he doing here" Joan asked them

"sorry we didn't tell you, since he's new here we decided to welcome him in, and we knew you wouldn't come if we told you so we didn't" Kimmy said

"sorry babes" maxim said

and Joan let the whole thing slide, throughout the day out Joan's attention was not on Callum but his was on her and her alone

maxim and Kimmy went to get something and they told them to wait for them, Joan received a call from Nick and she went outside to talk with him, after a while and none of them were back, Callum went outside too, from afar he noticed Joan and watched her smile

" who's she talking to? so she can smile, whoever that person is, must be really precious to her" he said to himself and still looked at her.

Joan finished her call and caught Callum staring at her, she was uncomfortable but she saw something, she saw that the place Callum was standing a bucket of paint might fall on him, although she didn't want to talk to him, she can't watch something like that happen, she moved forward a little, turned to Callum and said

"move away from there"

but Callum was just smiling at her

"I said move away from there if you don't want to be coloured" Joan said and Callum moved, he looked above and saw what she meant.

"thank you" he said

"you're welcome" Joan said

"hi my name is Callum"

" I know we came here together remember" Joan said and he smiled

"you really like smiling even when others are serious" Joan said

"maybe I do" he said

awkwardly they found something to talk about, when Kimmy and Maxim arrived they were talking and smiling and they were happy they were getting along,