Chapter 13. Desiring Each Other

Samantha poked Iris. "Wake up," she whispered into her ear. "Your dad's mad at you." Iris groaned and looked at her dad with sleepy eyes.

"I wasn't sleeping, dad," she said with red cheeks. God! How the entire class was watching her! She wanted to dig a hole somewhere and hide.

Her dad glared at her while she trembled like a leaf. "I dislike those who sleep in my class. What do you have to say for yourselves?" he growled, looking from Nick to Iris and back. Nick rolled his eyes. Wasn't he making a mountain out of a molehill? Who asked him to be so boring? He could see all his friends yawning away.

"Sir, Iris had a headache last night," said Nick, to save her from her dad's wrath.

"Really now? I didn't know that being her dad, " said Porty, glaring at him while Iris facepalmed. What the entire class might think of them! "And you Nicholas? Did you have some aches too?" Porty asked Nick disgustedly.

"Yes sir," he said and the whole class chuckled, cover