Page 16 of Scarlett and the Kiss Thief

“I’m gonna throw up,” she groaned and started coughing.

Oh my God. Where is the trash can?“Do you need to go to the nurse? Here, let me help.” I tried to reach out my hand for her, but instead of taking it she gagged again and gestured toward the front of the classroom.

What was she doing? “Soph?”

She kept flailing her arm toward the front of the room. “The new teacher is…is…he’s your…” She gagged again and her face was deadly pale.

I looked over to where she was pointing.

No.

My dad was standing there scowling, his arms folded across his chest.

Oh God no.

Staring directly at me like he was going to murder me.

What the hell is happening right now?

I looked back at Sophie and then back at my dad.

No. No, no, no.The new teacher was my…dad?Kill me now.

Sophie gagged harder.

Shit!I looked down at my rolled skirt and my high heels. My dad really was going to murder me.

“God, I said I wanted to suck Uncle James’ penis,” Sophie whispered at me. “Gross. Vom.” She was literally choking on air as she tried not to throw up at the thought. “I said he could do unspeakable things to me.” She coughed. “Right on that desk. Or against the chalkboard. I’m so gross. I’m going to be sick.”

“Sophie, are you alright?” My dad asked as he walked over to us. He tried to put his hand on her back but she moved away from him. “I’m fine. I didn’t say anything weird at all. If you heard anything I was just kidding.” Sophie put her hand over her mouth, probably more scared of word vomit than real vomit.

He just stared at her.

Sophie collapsed into the closest desk and gagged again.

My dad turned back to me. “Is she okay?”

“She’s fine.”She just accidentally talked about having sex with you. And so many other things involving something she shouldn’t have ever been talking about.God, I was going to throw up too. “But I should probably sit down with her to make sure…”

“Not so fast.” He grabbed my elbow so I couldn’t retreat. “What are you wearing?”

“My uniform.”

His eyebrows lowered. “This wasn’t how you looked this morning.”

“What are you even doing here?”

“Besides catching you in a lie? I’m your new teacher.” He pointed to his name on the board.

Mr. Hunter was scrawled along the board. I laughed. “No you’re not.”

“Yes, I am. This was my surprise.”

I just stared at him.

“This morning…I told you and Liam I had a surprise for you guys. This is it. I’m the new computer science teacher.”

“Whh…why?”

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