Chapter 5: Substitute Professor

"Good morning, everyone" I am watching Charles in front of the room with my forehead creased. I only noticed now that he is wearing a navy blue dress shirt with few buttons opened paired and the sleeves folded up to his elbow paired with black slacks and black shoes. He look clean and formal. His clothes fit his lean body perfectly.

"I am a friend of Professor Gustav, Charles, and he has a business meeting to attend today so he asked me a favor to administer the exam in this class" he scanned the whole room using his cold and full of intensity eyes while explaining.

Keyla and I are sitting on the third row and near the aisle so he easily saw us. He stared at me as he continued to speak, "I hope it is okay with you" my classmate enthusiastically nodded especially the girls, so Charles added, "If so, let's proceed to your quiz"

He added some rules while Keyla leaned towards me to whisper, "I wanted to complain that why do Sir Gustav needed to look for a substitute when he can give the quiz next meeting but if the substitute is this handsome? It's fine. I hope Sir Gustav have business meeting every week" then she giggled.

I shook my head in disbelief, "You're getting married. Stop it!"

"I love your brother but I want to admire how gorgeous this man is. How old do you think he is?" I glanced at Charles to examine him but I got startled when I met his stare while my classmate is talking and asking him.

I quickly diverted my eyes to Keyla, "I don't know. I don't want to look at him anymore" I whispered with my voice full of panic.

"Why?" then she tried to glance at Charles and I tried to stop her face using my hand but because of panic, I put some force that it turns into a slap.

"Ouch!" she put her hand on her cheek, glaring at me only for a short moment because she continued to glance at Charles. Her eyes turned wide, when she saw him looking at us. "OMG! OMG! She's looking at you!" she happily told me but her hands is still on her cheeks.

I can feel my face heating up when some of our classmates turned their heads at us, wondering, because of what Keyla said, "What the hell, Keyla? Turn down your voice" I stopped her using a low voice.

"Why is he looking at you? OMG. Being pretty has its benefits huh?" Then she wriggled her brows to tease me. She forgot my slap a while ago. I should've put more force to it to divert her attention.

I bit my lip and lowered my head. I hope no one heard our conversation. What if Charles is looking at someone behind us and I'm being assuming? I mean, why would he stare at us? At me?

Keyla continued giggling and teasing me but I acted like I'm busy on my iPad.

Good thing that Charles told us that we will start the quiz or else Keyla will never stop. I mean, she's not stopping completely, like if this is a game, she's just on pause.

I'll just think of a way to make her forget later. Right now, I'll focus on my quiz first.

The quiz isn't that hard but because of essays, it lasted for almost an hour. I'm the third one to finish and we can leave the room since the quiz is the only thing we'll do today in this subject.

I stood up to pass my paper. I grabbed my things too and walked to Charles. I'm feeling so nervous and intimidated. I only put the paper on the table in front of him, avoiding his eyes also.

"Bye and thank you" I bowed a little bit as a sign of courtesy.

I saw him in my peripheral vision that he's staring at me seriously and nodded lightly, "Okay. Goodbye"

I hurriedly left the room and took a deep breath when I knew that I am meters away from him already. My hands are cold and I'm sweating. What the hell? Who is that guy anyway? He's so intimidating.

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