Chapter 3 The Project

Physics had to be the dullest class Laura had attended . Mr Murray was now rambling about the terms science project and how he wanted them to work in pairs . His usually dull face was flushed pink with excitement.

Laura hoped she wasn't paired with a dumbo. She preferred doing things alone rather than with someone who had no idea of what to do.

" The fun part of this terms project is you'll be choosing your project theme from what I've thaught you which isn't much er. . . but still with creativity you should have different concepts. But as usual I'll be pairing you up"

The was a loud groan from the class.

Great. Just what she needed.

" Spencer and Chrissy, Laura and Steve..."he trailed on , pointing at them.

No way was she working with Steve Way. No freaking way .

"Looks like we're going to have another disaster"

Sarah said from behind Laura, making the whole class giggle.

" I'm not yet out Miss Underhill" Mr Murray said sternly .

The bell rang , Laura stuffed her books into her bag and quickly picked up her bag and headed towards the door , lo and behold was Steve leaning by the door frame and looking at her intently , his grey eyes sent chills through Laura . Where did hot people come from?

Since the food incident he'd been giving her cold stares and joining Sarah to make nasty comments about her during class.

" Yo! Halliday" Steve hollered making Laura jump a bit, she could feel the colour rise up her neck .She raised her head from the ground and looked at him, he seemed friendly at the moment , his brown hair was tousled making it look shaggy and hot. His lips were formed into a smirk and one of his hands was tucked into the left pocket of his jean .

" What?" Laura shot at him making him roll his eyes.

" Just the way I thought." Steve grinned and placed a hand on Laura's shoulder. Laura could feel her thighs grow warm. Fuck this wasn't supposed to be happening he was the enemy not her fantasy prince.

" Five at my house today " and he walked away leaving Laura staring at him. She just learned something new . Steve Way had drama and lots of it at that .

Laura had spent the whole afternoon imagining how awkward it was going to be at Steve's . He was one cocky person indeed. The show off didn't even bother to give her directions to his house but then why would he ? Everyone knew the "Way house" any way so that wasn't going to be a problem infact it was just a few streets away from her house .

Laura's hands felt clammy as she pressed a button on the intercom , it made a buzzing sound, shortly after a voice boomed from it

" The Way house. Please who are you ?" The voice asked .

" I'm Laura . I'm here for Steve" Laura said .

A minute later the gate opened leading Laura to a large duplex that missed being a mansion just a teeny weeny bit .

The front steps were large and grey and curved into a circle, as Laura walked towards the front door it opened, behind it was a butler.

" Welcome Miss" he bowed .

Before Laura could ask for Steve a maid appeared and took her to his room .

The walls were painted white and blue and turned out to be the opposite of what Laura had expected instead of clothes strewn about, used tissues on the floor and something foul ( like the owner) hanging in the air , the room was neat and everything was in place even his bed was properly laid .

A door clicked and Laura turned to meet Steve bare chested with a black towel wrapped around his waist, he raked his long fingers through his wet hair , water dripping to his already glistering chest, rolling down to his toned stomach . He took a quick look at Laura and picked up his short beside her on his bed where she sat leaving the scent of his shampoo to linger in the air .

It smelled of vanilla and strawberries. Laura quickly looked away as he sat beside her and began pulling up his shorts .

" Don't you have any decency?" She asked irritatedly still looking away .

He took her by her jaw firmly making her face him, then giving her an amused look he flung off his towel which made Laura twitch a bit , his shorts were not fully on but he already had boxers on.

" Oh. . ." Laura gulped . Steve looked at her for some time and chuckled.

" Prude" Steve said rubbing his towel on his head .

" At least I have manners" Laura retorted defending herself.

" Whatever-" Steve rolled his eyes but was cut short by Laura .

"You seem to say that alot" she smirked at him and copied his clueless expression.

" What?" He asked a bit confused.

" I meant you say whatever alot. And you say it each time you know you're wrong"

" What-" he stopped himself midsentence and Laura laughed , the look on his face was really priceless but she stopped when she noticed he wasn't laughing along. Geez was he always this worked up ?

" You came here because of the project" he coughed giving Laura one of his piercing stares .

" Yes I -" She began.

" Would you like anything?" he asked.

No she didn't as far as it came from him.

" I'm okay " she lied.

" I'll be back. I'll get you cookies and soda " Steve said ignoring whatever Sarah had said .

Sarah left the Way house very irritated . It was one thing for some one to suggest what they thought and another for someone to purposely interrupt you just to prove they were smarter than you and Steve kept doing the later .

At first Laura was very impressed and relived that he was actually that smart but after three of his stupid( they were actually useful but not all that ) suggestions she knew he just wanted to prove his point and annoy her at the same time. It wasn't going to be easy working with Steve maybe it'll have been better if she was paired with a dumbo after all.

Three more weeks and she wasn't going to submit the stupid project. . . it was going to be easy or maybe not .