Emery's POV
As soon as I saw her sitting in my classroom. My whole world froze. I felt anger rise from within me but I controlled it. My gaze never left her, making sure that she was real and not one of my nightmares. She looks all innocent and sweet but everyone around her doesn't know what type of person she is.
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I left Lakeside high school because of her. I wasn’t going to have my reputation ruined because of a student.
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No matter where I go, my attractiveness gets the attention of many women. I am not the man to entertain any of that. They haven’t been approaching me ever since my demeanor changed. I am a cold-hearted person after what happened.
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I used to be a kind-hearted man. I came from nothing, we struggled as a family. My father had his small business but it wasn’t as huge as compared to the other businesses out there.
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It was a small printing company. My father used to own a library, he spent most of his days reading before he decided to open up a printing company.
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I have read a lot of books since I was a kid but what fascinated me was history. My father would always explain to me about history. I had a lot of questions about it. I would be in bed and I would read them. I knew as I got older that I wanted to pursue a career in something to do with history.
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As I did my research in high school about what I wanted to do, becoming a history teacher came to my mind. I read more about it and then I decided right then and there that I would do just that.
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I got a teaching position at Lakeside high school and I taught there for six years. I loved what I was doing, it was my passion until something happened last year that I left. I applied for the professor position here at Beacon university and I got it at the age of thirty. I thought that I would not face anything like that again. I was wrong, because as I stood in front of the classroom. I was looking at her.
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When she left my class in a hurry, I didn't like that because I like respect. I have rules in this classroom. I am not the nice history teacher that I used to be last year.
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I went after her and got her back to class but what changed for me at that moment was when I held onto her wrist and that I felt the electricity. I never touched her before and this is the first time. When she made it known that I shouldn't be touching her. I was reminded of what happened and let go of her wrist.
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We are back in my classroom, she takes her books out again, placing them on top of her desk and she refuses to look up at me. Why do I even care?
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“Let us continue our lesson for the day. Firstly, if you want to leave my classroom, then you ask me first or you can leave my classroom permanently if you find that to be a problem.” I said, keeping my eyes on her. She moves her hair behind her ear as she continued to look down at her book.
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I finally take my eyes away from her as I scan the class. The females are watching me with admiration while some are nervous and bored. “Following the discussion of the July Crisis, the Treaty of Versailles was the most important part of the peace treaties of world war 1. It ended the state of the war between Germany and the Allied Powers.” I said as I paced the front of the classroom, looking at each one of them except her.
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“It was signed on the twenty-eighth of June 1919. It was signed in the Palace of Versailles. It was five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to that war.” I said.
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“Sir, so can you tell us more about the Archduke?” I look at the student, he was sitting in front of her
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Immediately, my eyes went to her and she was already watching me. It was like there was some sort of shift because I looked into her golden brown eyes, I am being pulled towards her which never happened before. I gaze lower to her lips as she licks them, I swallow because something is changing in me for her. I swallow and I break eye contact.
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“Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria,” the class erupted with laughter. “I know it is a long name, but he was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. He was the eldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria and he was the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. After the death of Crown Prince Rudolf and the death of Karl Ludwig, Franz Ferdinand became the heir presumptive to the throne. It takes you back to him being assassinated along with his wife Sophie Chotek in Sarajevo by a nineteen-year-old Gavrilo Princip, who was a young Bosnia member. So, Franz Ferdinand’s assassination led to the July Crisis and it precipitated the Austria-Hungary declaration of the war against Serbia.” I take in a deep breath. My mouth is feeling dry.
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I went over to my desk, taking the bottle of water. I open it and I take a sip. I can still feel some sort of pull toward her but I will do anything to not get that close to her again.
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“I want you all to read through the passage of the Treaty of Versailles until the end of the class period. I will ask questions about it tomorrow.” I state as I take a seat behind my desk.
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After what feels like forever, the class is dismissed and I am reading through the next lesson that I will be giving tomorrow. The students are chatting as they leave and I see out of the corner of my eye that someone is standing at my desk. I look up into her eyes. Immediately, my fences are up.
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She licks her lips again. “I wanted to let you know that I will be changing classes,” she said.
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“I think that is a very good decision that you made,” I said. She looks down at the lesson that is still in my hand that I was reading. Her decision is for the best.
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