It Started with a Kiss by Jennifer Trevino (best mobile ebook reader txt) 📕

            “Good afternoon Mrs. Lanter,” I smiled gently.

            “Yes good evening, won’t you come in?” I nodded and went inside with Tyler following behind us. He closed the door behind him and Mrs. Lanter led me to his room, Tyler instantly sped past us and told us not to enter.

            Mrs. Lanter smirked and chuckled, “Well I will see you later on Angela, please feel comfortable. You don’t know how excited Tyler was when I told him you would be his tutor.”

            “Really?” I smiled and when I reached his door Mrs. Lanter opened it without knocking and caught Tyler pushing his mess under his bed. His mother frowned and she scolded him, which I giggled at.

            “Well I will leave you two alone, please close the door I don’t want you two to be interrupted by anything,” Mrs. Lanter said before she left and closed the door behind her. We were left in a small room alone; I took in my surroundings and smiled at his room. There was a bed to the side with dark blue comforter on top and white pillows, and his blue paste walls held a few posters of basketball players and sports cars. To the right there was a wooden desk with a laptop and book shelf stacked neatly, a chair tucked under it.

            A plasma television placed on the other edge of the room with an Xbox 360 next to it, and a small black leather couch with a coffee table in front of it. Yep it was a typical boy’s room.  “Nice room,” I commented.

            He blushed and I had to suppress the aw from escaping my lips, he was just so cute. Nothing really did change from him…well except his outer appearance.  He looked more like a teenage boy than that cute little boy that would always cling to me like a koala. “Thank you,” he replied.

            “Well let’s get started on your homework and then I will help you in anything you don’t understand,” I suggested and he nodded going over to his desk, he took out a pile of paper and a pencil with a calculator.

            For the rest of the afternoon we studied together, I taught him equations and helped him in anything he didn’t quite understand. He wasn’t that bad in math or science, but had trouble with English and history. After a while I became used to that comfortable atmosphere we used to have when we were younger.

            “Can I ask you something Angela?” He hesitated as he dropped his pencil and looked at me. I was leaning close to him our faces an inch apart, yet I felt perfectly calm standing close to him. After all he is younger than me and I have known him since we were children, so it didn’t appeal to me he would be thinking about…

            “Sure, go ahead,” I insisted pulling a stray brown hair over my ear.

            “Do you have a…boyfriend?” His eyes stayed locked with my own, and suddenly I found the sweet Tyler gone.

            “Eh?” I muttered in confusion.

            “I was only wondering if you had someone special you love,” he said in that sweet caring tone that made me squirm from the cuteness overload. “You don’t have to answer though, I’m sorry for prying into your business,” he apologized and I felt my lower lip quiver.

            “No it’s alright, and no I don’t have anyone at the moment,” I answered smiling at his flustered state. This boy was such a cute angel; I wish Robert was more like this. But I know I’m wishing for the impossible, since Robert will always be well…himself.

            “I see…that means I have a chance,” at his last words my eyebrows raised and before I could understand them he had taken my glasses off and they fell to the floor with a thump. His other hand came behind my neck and pulled me in until our lips had collided against each other.

            His lips moved against my own and I was struggling to pull away, but his other arm wrapped around me and in a swift motion I found myself seated on his lap. My heart felt like it would fall apart any second, but my train of thought was jumbled.

            I felt breathless and couldn’t pull apart from his moist warm lips; they left me in a daze. After a while I managed to pull away and I instantly smacked him right across his cheek.

            My chest was heaving and sweat formed on my brow, this wasn’t the sweet Tyler I knew. His lips curled into a smirk and his grey eyes glinted with mischievousness, he licked his lips and touched the red mark on his cheek.

            And that was how my first kiss was stolen, by none other than a middle schooler with a cocky smirk set on his face. My own student had just assaulted me and yet I couldn’t stop my stupid heart from thumping so madly.

The Angel’s smirk

            My face was completely flustered and a million thoughts were running frantically inside my mind. The tingling sensation still lingered on my lips, and my trembling fingers covered them with shock.

            “What are you that surprised?” Tyler questioned his lips widening at the reaction he got from me. He raked a hand through his golden wavy hair and touched his lips with the tips of his fingers. “Don’t tell me that was your first kiss?”

            Was it possible to feel so extremely furious and in the same time embarrassed to the point where you wanted a hole to appear on the ground and swallow you up? Because that’s how I was currently feeling, as I stood frozen like a plank.

            “You…pervert! How could you!” I yelled in frustration, my body shaking from all the boiling anger. “So what if that was my first kiss!” I gritted my teeth and narrowed my blurry eyes at his cocky figure.

            He had the nerve to laugh at my outburst and gaze at me so intimately that it made my stomach flutter with butterflies. My eyebrows furrowed and I hissed through tightened lips, “Tyler!”

            “S-sorry,” he said his laughter dying out. “It’s just so hard to believe a cute girl like you hasn’t had her first kiss yet,” Tyler commented with that sweet smile and tone. For a moment my shoulders relaxed and I forgot why I was so angry with him. I shook my head and glared at him, he was trying to manipulate me by using that angelic façade.

            “Oh no, I will not fall for that again,” I hollered glancing away from those hypnotizing eyes. There was no way that I would fall for that same trick, but I got to give the guy credit he sure knew how to act.

            “Is that so?” Tyler smiled in amusement, was it really entertaining to see my expressions? Just what changed my Sweet Tyler into such a…egoist jerk?

            I grabbed my backpack in a hurry and began to walk toward his door; I was not going to stay in the same room with a guy that I barely recognized and had kissed me so unexpectedly. Just when I opened the door Tyler slammed it shut with his hand and put his other hand at my other side, his chest pressed against my back.

            “Are you leaving so soon, Angie?” He whispered, his warm breath fanning my neck. I swallowed the lump welled in my throat, just an hour ago I had thought of him as a younger sibling, but now I was having skeptical thoughts.

            “Um, Tyler…” my voice trailed off when his lips descended on the crook of my neck and he kissed it tenderly. My body jerked and I dropped my backpack to the floor in surprise, my eyes widening to the size of golf-balls.

            “Won’t you stay for a little more, I promise not to do anything to you,” he murmured with a pleading tone, his arms wrapping around my waist and pulling me into another embrace.

            How was I supposed to believe him when he was touching me right now? First he smiles at me kindly, then he kisses me without a reason, and then he says sweet words that make me melt into a puddle.

            “Tyler…” I shut my mouth and shook my head; this was not the moment to let myself be swallowed by his affectionate move. I was here to tutor him, to make him study, not for him to take advantage of me!

            “Look here!” I yelled as I pulled away from him and faced him with determination. “I came here to tutor you, so don’t expect for me to take your attitude so lightly. I don’t know why you attacked me or why you are being so familiar with me, but this will end right now! You hear me?” I declared my eyebrows furrowed together in bewilderment.

            Tyler blinked several times and then chuckled, he took a step back (thank god, I could barely breathe) and said, “You’re absolutely right. I don’t know what came over me Angie. I’m sorry for my rude behavior.”

            Even though I said all that I was still expecting him to lash out and argue with me, but instead that afternoon he was very obedient and didn’t even try to touch me once. Was I disappointed?

            Of course not, I came here with a task and I was dead set in making Tyler study and get good marks on his exams. Although it was kind of weird, he did not give me a reason as to why he had kissed me and acted afterwards as if nothing had happened.

            Just who exactly was Tyler? He could change his expression in a millisecond and then do something completely different. Or is it just me thinking too much?

            Ugh! Well I know one thing; he isn’t a small kid anymore.

~♥~

            “So?” Robert pried with a questioning look set on his face. We were both walking together to school, and I wore the most somber expression I could muster. Middle school students shouldn’t be a problem, but why do I have to get the most troublesome one?

            “What?” I glared at Robert who raised his eyebrow and smiled at my angry expression.

            “Oh, this seems interesting. What got you in such a sour mood?” He implored ignoring my annoyed Do-not-speak-with-me glare that had no effect on him. “Could it be that the kid you are tutoring made you like this?”

            I gritted my teeth and stopped in my tracks, he smirked, “Bulls eye!”

            “He is such a-a confusing jerk! At first I thought he was really cute and acted like an angel, but then he had to ruin it by kissing me and acting completely different afterwards! What happened to the angel that I used to know, it seemed only a week ago he was a small brat that would always cling to me, and now he is a pervert!” My chest was