Ditched Cheating Alpha, I Led My Daughter to Life's Peak novel Chapter 20

They look at each other. Then at me. Then at each other. "Uh. Yeah, I guess."

I smile. "Thank you."

They look behind me. They flinch. They shake their heads. "No. Sorry, no you can't be in our group."

"What?" I look behind me. All that's in that direction is Aiden's group, but he's not even looking over here.

I look back at them. "But-"

They look genuinely terrified, so I just walk away. I look for another group, and in the back I see my worst nightmare. Brittany and Krys just looking smug as hell at my struggle. I'll be damned if I ask them for help.

I look around again and the simple fact is that everyone is shying away from me, especially the guys. I don't know what to do.

"Would you find a group already," Ms. Baines yells at me when she turns around from writing on the board.

I nod. I go to the only group that isn't adamantly rejecting me. I know what you're thinking, but I have no choice... I go to Aiden.

I'll be damned if I ask him to take me in. I don't even look at Aiden. I just pull up a stool and sit beside his lab partner. The guy is asian, with dark hair and dark eyes. He has to be extremely tall because he's looks just a little shorter than Aiden, and he still towers over my seated figure despite him being seated himself.

He raises an eyebrow at me when I sit down but says nothing. He just gets up and moves to the other side of Aiden.

Wow. Thanks.

I decide not to look at Aiden even if he's right beside me. Forget him. I'm not going to let him ruin my day any further. I wait for the teacher to start teaching but a minute or two passes and nothing happens. For a woman so stuck on punctuality, she sure is wasting time. She makes eye contact with me and gives me a dirty look.

What?

I look around and people are working. I nearly gasp out loud. What the heck? I look to my left and see the Aiden's uninterested eyes glancing at me.

I give him the same dirty look the teacher gave me. "What?"

He just keeps looking at me from the corner of his eyes. "You realize you're supposed to be doing that, right?"

"Of course I do." I look away. I won't ask him, but what am I supposed to be doing? I see the equations and formulas on the board but there's no actual instructions. She never said anything, so how does everyone else know? I could ask him, but I have too much pride for that. I try to infer by lightly glancing at other people's papers, but everyone else is too far away.

"Is everyone done?" Ms. Baines asks.

I start sweating. Uh oh.

I think she smells the fear on me. She looks directly at me. "Would anyone like to share their answers?"