Teacher!EnglandXReader - Righting the Wrong Chp 12

“(Name)?”

“Yeah?” I didn’t look up from my book; I kept my eyes firmly on the one sentence I’ve been reading for the past ten minutes.

Footsteps slowly walk past me and fade out as fast as the approached. Something was kicked away from the door and it slowly closed and before I knew it he was sitting next to me, reaching out and gradually taking the books from my hands.

“How have you been?” Arthur asked as he removed his glasses, setting them on the desk on top of my closed book.

I blinked a few times surprised by the question, but eventually I shrug and look down at my hands in my lap. Apparently not the answer he wanted, Arthur got up and went over to his desk. I thought he was going back to work and reached to grab my book again but he stopped me –turning my hand over and gently forced it open.

I looked up at him and he gave me a kind smile, with his other hand held behind his back, he slowly brought it around and placed a white rose in my hands with a red ribbon around a de-throne steam. I took the flower in my hands and brought my fingers and traced it along its silk like petals.

“I’ll up keep my part of that promise,” Arthur spoke as he sat down next to me again.

“For every tear I shed –may it be caused by you or not- I shall get a white rose in the false world of gold…..” I trailed off and nodded my head. I brought the pure flower to my nose, taking in its sent as the petals tickled my lips. Turning to Arthur I smile, “Thank you,” I said as he returned the smile.

“So what’s wrong?” He asked sitting back in the chair as I did the same.

“Drake, like I said before and tests are coming up so I’m stressed and all, it’s not pretty. Mom also is gone on a business trip so I’m helping out with dad around the house, paying bills getting groceries. I’m losing sleep too, what a bundle of joy I am, right?” I mocked at myself and scowled.

“Well,” Arthur started and faced the front of the room; he had a hand on his chin and bushy brows furrowed together. “You can tell Drake no simply and he’ll leave you alone. You shouldn’t feel uncomfortable with making a choice like that. For tests, I’d offer to help you study and get past any problems but asking me isn’t the best decision right now,” He stopped and looked over to me with a ghost of a smile. “But about things at home, hold it together for a few more days. Your strong I know you can,”

Nodding my head I turn back to the rose. I wanted to talk more, but it was hard bringing the worlds out of my throat.  “What do you want to do, after school ends?” I slowly asked.
The question seemed to surprise Arthur, as he didn’t say anything until I heard him clear his throat and move around in his seat. “How about a vacation?” He said.

“That sounds nice, I’d like that,” I began to smile as I rubbed my fingers along the smooth white petals.

“All your homework done?” Arthur randomly asked and I looked to see him smiling.
I nodded my head to him as he spoke again, “Got any projects?”

A smile worked my way onto my lips, “Yeah, this teacher I have, at the end of the day to which really sucks! He gave me this huge project to do, I have to write some mass essay, can you believe that?!”

“Nooooooo!” Arthur gasped dramatically and places a hand on his lips. “How could he do such an evil thing?”

“I know right!” I turned in my chair to face him completely and held up to clenched hands in false anger. “Sometimes I just want to punch him in the face!”

“Wait, what? You want to punch me in the face?” Arthur grabbed a hold of my fists and lowered them with a question look.

I gave a nervous smile and shrugged. “Sometimes, not all the time, it’s just about the home work. It kind of sucks,”

“Too bad, just wait it out a week and you’ll be fine,” He turned to face straight ahead at the table and crossed his arms with a glare at the front bored.

“I don’t think I’m going to go to the dance,” I deiced to say with a shrug. “To cliché,”
Arthur slowly faced me again with a questioning look and a raised bushy brow. “Really? You were pretty worked up about have to go with Drake and all of a sudden you don’t want to go?” he asked and I nodded.

“Well, I’d love to go, really, but I can’t go with who I want to go with, so why should I?” I looked over to him and I had to bite the inside of my cheeks from smiling as I saw him stiffen up ever so slightly and his cheeks become a slight shade of pink.

“Why shouldn’t you, (Name),” He started and shifted in his seat, “You don’t know what’s going to happen, you can’t hold yourself back just because you don’t know.” His lips show a ghost of a smile as he went on, “Do whatever you want, but I think you should go anyways.”

This, this was pretty nice, doing this again. But you want to know something? I regret nothing right now, and with what I’m about to do.

I got up in my seat and stood facing Arthur. He slowly turned his head and looked up at me as I took in a sharp breath and puffed out my cheeks. That’s when I jumped. No, not in that spot, silly you, I jumped at Arthur, and tackled him in a hug on the floor as I knocked both of us out of the chair.

I clung onto him as I took in his sent, sweet, and smelling of tea like it used to be and that nice minty smell. I gave a content sigh and hug him tighter, “I’ve missed you a lot Arthur,”

His arms were around me in a matter of seconds hugging me just as tight, “I know, I’ve missed you too,”

“I’m sorry too, you know. I don’t want to talk about it, but I just want to keep telling you I’m sorry,” I mumbled against his chest and I felt him give a sigh.

“I know,” he breathed out and we stayed like this. Lying on the floor all tangled up together.

I eventually looked up at him and placed a kind kiss on his cheek, “It seem I really do love you, my favorite teacher,” I teased quietly and he let out a small chuckle.

“I love you too, (Name), don’t forget that,” He placed a kiss on my forehead and soon we were helping each other stand up from the floor.

“All we have left is to wait until graduation,” I said and took a step back from him with a half-smile twitching on my lips.

Arthur nodded his head in agreement, “Soon, soon this will all be over,”

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The night of the dance, it’s okay I guess, being on a huge ass boat I mean. I told Drake no too, he didn’t take it too well, he said we wasted all year trying to go out with me but I never gave in, and that I was making the biggest mistake in my life for not going with him. What a drama queen.

But here I am, all pretty with my hair put up in this fancy way, mom did it for me, and I was in this knee length (f/c) dress that was kind of sparkly at the bottom trim. The same color flowers were on the dress on my chest, which by the way the dress is strapless and I wore a matching little cotton sweater to go with it.

It was platitude to me, as always and just what I thought it would be. But I went; I’, standing here on the back end of the yacht leaning on the railing, looking back at the shore line. I came with Alice and Karyan and Roman. They were all somewhere else dancing to the vibrations I could feel throughout the railing of the yacht now.

Suddenly I heard the sound of shoes walking alone the wooden deck behind me, and I didn’t bother look back because whoever it was, I probably didn’t want to see them.

“Shrimp cocktail?” The asked and I shook my head.

“No thanks,”

“You sure, it’s pretty good,”

“I said no-….Arthur?” I turned around and faced him fully, this man in a butler suit and a fake mustache! It didn’t even match his hair color! “W…what….why? I hope you know, everyone is going to know it’s you.”

He shrugged, and handed me the glass full of shrimpies and cocktail sauce. I wasn’t really in the mood to eat them, so I set them down on the railing. “Yeah I know, but haven’t you noticed the rest of the teachers here? Alfred’s here with fake dreadlocks over there. And Ivan has got a beard as if he is Santa. Even Antonio did something to himself; he’s wearing a dress, and tried giving himself pig tails.”

I pressed my lips together and shook my head with confusion. “Why!?”

“It’s something we’ve done for the last two years. It started with Gilbert, don’t ask. Teachers just show up in costumes and serve the students.” Arthur sighed in irritation.
I shook my head once more and gave a small laugh. “Hold on,” I said and reached a hand up “You-You’ve got something- right there, let me get that.” I moved quickly and tore off that hideous mustache “Got it!” I smiled.

He didn’t do or say anything for five hole seconds, I counted and he then suddenly let out a scream and then slapped a hand over his mouth as he screamed some more into that and cursed words I didn’t even know existed!

“Why the bloody hell did you do that!? The bloody fucking hurt like a bitch! Dammit! God Blast it (Name)!” Arthur’s words came out as yelling muffled slurs as his hand was still over his mouth but I died laughing.

“You looked horrible! I’m sorry I needed to take that thing off your face, it was like a third eye brow over your lips!” I laughed and laughed as he glared at me tracing his fingers over were that ugly mustache once was. “I’m sorry!” I laughed out again trying to catch my breath.

“You better be dammit!” He turned away from me and added in a hushed tone. “This is going to leave a mark now, it’s going to be so embarrassing. Alfred is going to never let me live this down.”

I rolled my eyes and walked up to stand next to him. “You’re fine, okay?”

“No I’m not! It’s hurts!”

“Stop being a baby!”

“I’m not doing anything! You’re the one that ripped that fucking thing off without warning! It was glued on you know! God, it still hurts.” Arthur let out another sigh to himself being the big baby he was.

I rolled my eyes again and looked around. Once I noticed we were 100% alone I walked up to him and pulled his hands from his lips and got up on my tippy toes and placed a kiss first where he was complaining about, but then I trailed a few kisses more along his lips with a smile.

Once I started to pull away he pulled me back and I giggled at his eagerness as we tangled ourselves together. It wasn’t anything too much, we didn’t instantly start attacking each other in some desperate need for sex, is what I’m saying, instead it was that cute, fluffy kind of thing. As much as I hated stuff like that.

We just held onto each other, I with my arms wrapped around his neck and twirling a finger in a lose soft golden lock as I giggle every now and then and say silly things or place sweet harmless kisses on his lips. He even had his arms around my waist pulling me lose as he would give small chuckles to whatever I said and add his own two cents.

I hate admitting this to myself, but I liked this lovey dovey thing almost. It was sweet and reassuring, and made my stomach all filled with butterflies and happy.  It made me realize that I only wanted Arthur to do this with, and I was completely okay with that.  I really did love every perfect thing about him and I loved every flaw even more. I wanted nobody else to hold me on this yacht and sway with me to the faint sounds of music in the background.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“A test here, another there. Finals all over the place!” I threw my hands in the air as I fell against the wall. “I’ve taken four finals today,” I groaned out to Alice as she closed her locker.

“I only have to take one more and I’m done. You know (Name), that’s what you get for taking all those classes again. I mean, no you only needed to take like three of the classes you had but instead you decided to retake half you’re classes! Even if you passed them last year!” Alice yelled with angry eyes at me and slammed her locker closed. “So stop complaining!”

I let out a long drown out moan and as I flopped to my knees. “I duuuuuun waaaaaaaan tuuuuuuu. I du wut I want!” I slurred out and soon we were both giggling and heading to the cafeteria until we had to go back to testing again.

“So what do you have left?” Alice asked and I shrugged thinking about it.

“I’ve got is U.S Gov. and English. How fun, right?” I complained as Alice nodded in agreement.

“Well I’m done for today, I’ve only got U.S Gov too. But I have to stay here with you’re sorry butt because you’re my ride home.”

I smiled to myself and suddenly dug down into my pocket and fished out my car keys. “Knock yourself out, just bring it back by this weekend.” I handed her the keys and she gasped.
“Wait, what? Really? Oh my goodness! Wow thanks! Wait…” She narrowed her eyes after taking the keys. “How will you get home? You never let anyone drive your car, and all of a sudden your handing your keys over to me, of all people.”

I smiled and shrugged as I stuffed my hands into my jeans pockets. “Don’t worry about it; I’ve got someone to take me home.”

“Who?” She asked and I shrugged again.

“You don’t know ‘em,”

“You met someone?”

“No, not really, I’ll tell you about it someday, just not know, it can wait,”
We walked over to a table, and sat down with our friends. Roman sat next to me, with Karyan on his lap and Savannah on the other side playing the new Pokemon game on, Alice was chatting with a friend of Roman’s and I sat there, staring out a window just waiting for the second I got out of here and finished with school.

Only a few more tests, and I’m done, I can skip the graduation ceremony, and just get my diploma after school and I can be free from this place and be some adult in today’s world and without fear. I told myself with a content sigh.

And it wasn’t long at all. Well, more like four hours later but still, it was nice. I jogged up to the front office were Dr. Vargas would be, and I knocked on the door and waited for him to call me in. Once I did get in there I held my breath and spoke.
“Sir, I won’t be here for the graduation ceremony, I was hoping you could like, hold my diploma for me or give it to me now, whatever works,” I rushed out.

He laughed whole heartedly and smiled. “I can’t give it to you know, we don’t know if you passed your finals yet, but si, I could hold on to it for you if you truly can’t make it to the ceremony. Tell me, why can you not go?”

I smiled and looked down to the ground as I swayed back and forth on my shoes. “I’m going on a much need vacation as soon as I get out of here, I’ll be gone for the next three months or so, I can’t wait until the ceremony to leave, that’s about three weeks away. I hope it’s not big of a problem.” I gave a nervous smile to him and raised my shoulders n a slight shrug.

“No, no it’s okay. I don’t really like it, but it’s fine (Name). Student have done it before, I think your mother did the same thing when she was at school here,” Dr. Vargas nodded his head as he set down the papers he was working on before I came in.

“What?” I asked with an unpleasant smile.

“You don’t know?” He asked and I nodded my head. “Why your mother left the second she got out those doors to run off with the man she married! Your parents are about eight or nine years apart aren’t they?”

I never thought about it before, and I grinned and nodded as I realized he was right, “Yeah, yeah you’re right. What did she do as soon as she left? Did she do a vacation as well?”

“Well, from what I remember, she left here and went to your father and they left and got married a week later. That’s why she could make it to her own graduation, if I do remember correctly,”

“Woah, wow, I never knew that. Cool, and thank you, Dr. Vargas, sir for letting me miss this and go.” I turned and got to the door way before he stopped me.
“Just remember I need you back here before next school year,” He smiled and went back to his work, leaving me standing in the door way confused and lost. I shrugged it off and ran out the door with a grin on my face.

I didn’t need to grab anything, my locker was cleaned out, I didn’t need to drive anyone home, Alice was doing that for me, all I had to do was run to the parking lot. And that is just what I did. I burst through the front doors and ran down the stairs as I dashed down the side walk and over to the parking lots. Only one car was left, one nice neat car full of suitcases and one man leaning on its hood with hand tucked into his jacket and wind messing up his hair even more.

My feet came to a halt right next to the car as I bent over out of breath. When I stood back up Arthur was giving me a warm smile. I quickly moved over to him and wrapped my arms around him and pulled him down to me to give him a passionate kiss, I broke away a few seconds later and breathed out, “I’m free,” with a grin.

“Technically, not really,” He grinned and I pulled away some more to look at him with raised brows and daring look. He laughed and shook his head, “You’re not free, because you’re still mine,” He bent down and placed a kiss on my lips and then another on my cheek before pulling away and opening the car door for me. I smiled and got in.

“You ready?” he asked once he got into the driver seat. “Once we leave, you know I won’t want to come back. London is a wonderful place; I’ll have to show you all the little hidden joints there. It will be splendid!”

I rolled my eyes with a smile and nodded my head. “Of course I am! It’s summer now, I don’t ever have to go back to high school, and I am dying to get to London!” Before he could start the car I pulled him over and placed once more kiss on his warm lips. “I love you,” I whispered with a smile.

“I love you too,” He beamed and took a hold of my head, and we left. Driving off to head in god knows what direction to end up in a beautiful place, a place where nobody knew us, and a place where we didn’t have to hide. Even if we didn’t have to hide anymore at all, no longer was I doing anything wrong to anyone. It all turn out alright, and no longer did it feel wrong to be around Arthur. I finally got to right the wrong, and I am keeping it with me forever.