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( Heart Magnet… )
CHAPTER 14✰15
By Rhema J.
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Naomi and Chase exchanged weird looks before Chase stepped away from Naomi and moved towards the window.
He looked out but there was no one present, he came out of the studio and peeped left and right, still no one.
He narrowed his eyes and went back in.
Meanwhile, Gwen was sitting on the floor and holding her breath, she didn’t mean to eavesdrop on them but her sketchbook unknowingly fell from her hands.
She sighed and relief when Chase went in then she crawled over to the next studio and entered inside.
After settling down in front of the drawing board she suddenly remembered earlier, the way he held Naomi’s face and looked at her,why did she felt so uncomfortable as she watched that?
She shook her head immediately and dipped her paintbrush inside the paint as she tried to remember Dante’s face…
Chase just finished painting. As he looked at his work, his smile slowly turned to a frown.
“What’s wrong, is the painting not good?” Naomi asked with her brows creased.
Chase stared at the painting again, he was thinking of Gwen just now, when she was sitting alone at the party and how beautiful she looked so he ended up painting that scene.
“Let me see” Naomi stood up from her chair.
“Uhhh…” Chase looked around before picking an orange paint and spilling it on the picture.
Naomi gasped.
“Sorry that picture was just too ugly, I can’t let you see it, please sit I’ll draw you again, no big deal” he said with a nervous laughter.
Naomi twitched her li-ps together and sat down then Chase resumed drawing her again.
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Gwen sighed and threw the last pan-ting of Dante on the floor. She still can’t get that right look of his face, each time she draws him, he always look so arrogant.
“Okay, let me just try to imagine him smiling” she muttered and closed her eyes then began painting.
When she saw done, she still looked so unsatisfied with the work.
“I’m not even sure he looks like this when he smiled” she sighed and checked the time.
It was past twelve already.
“Oh my goodness! It’s pretty late, it’s past my bedtime already” she shut her eyes tight.
“Yeah you can just take the painting like that or else you want to spend your clas-shere alone tomorrow” a voice sounded and she looked up to see Chase.
“Chase? What are you doing here?” She asked as she closed down the painting.
“I didn’t see you peeping at Naomi and I earlier” he smirked and her cheeks burnt red.
“Actually I.. I didn’t actually..”
“It’s fine, you don’t have a partner?” Chase walked over to her side with his hands in his pocket.
“I do..he just didn’t show up” Gwen shrugged and stood up with the painting in her hands.
“Goodnight” she said before trying to walk away.
“Hold on” Chase went to stand in front of her, he removed his hands from his pocket and brou-ght out a folded paper.
“Naomi and I were done an hour ago and I got bored so I decided to paint this” he put the paper in her hands.
Gwen opened it, it was a picture of her smiling and looking unaware.
“You like it?” He asked but she kept staring at it.
“It’s… It’s..” she muttered with her eyes glittering a bit.
“You don’t like it?” He asked with his eyes narrowed.
She suddenly cleared her throat and blinked the strange tears that were about to pour from her eyes away.
“I don’t like it, in my opinion it’s so ugly that I wanna just puke!” She replied and squee-zed the paper then threw it on the floor.
Chase stared at her in shock.
“What? So now I’m a bad person for being honest??” She said hardly but before he could answer, she already left.
Chase chuckled and huffed to himself before sitting on one of the stool behind him.
“Ouch! I mean that hurts” he muttered sadly.
All these while, there was a shadow watching from outside.
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“So most of you did well and some performed poorly” Prof Stella said as she walked around the cla-ssroom with her mean look.
Today she’s dressed strictly professional, her pencil skirt and de-ep red li-pstick says it all.
“Ma’am can you just release the results please, if it’s about failing I know I did” Erica said with an eye roll which made the students laugh.
“Indeed you know yourselves by your performance” Prof Stella eyed her before taking the script.
“The winner of this project is Jace and Jenis, please come out” she said and people began clapping.
Jace stood up with a smile, he began moving forward but stopped when he saw Jenis wasn’t moving along with him.
“Jenis?” He called and she blinked repeatedly before looking up.
“We won” he whispered and she looked left and right.
“Are you sure I’m included? Because I never win anything” she said with a nervous chuckle.
“Jenis!”
“Jenis!”
“Jenis!”
Everyone began clapping while Jace motioned her to stand up.
She stood up and people clapped even more.
????Who’s she?
???? She’s so quiet and pretty!
????So we have a pretty girl in our clas-sall along?
People began murmuring as she came to stand in front of the clas-swith Jace.
????Okay is it just me or do they look so good together?
“Now they are going too far, I’m the only one who looks good with Jace, for life” Lucky scoffed and looked elsewhere.
“If they know who she really is then they won’t cheer for her like this” Brittany muttered jealously from where she was sitting.
“I know right?” Mabel scoffed and rolled her eyes.
“The both of you picture will be on my best student list, your art just have everything I was looking for” Prof Stella said with a smile.
People began clapping, Lucky was sulking but Gwen held her hands and forced her to clap with it.
“Thank you ma’am, the both of us understand ourselves really well” Jace wrapped his arms around Jenis shoulders and she smiled uncomfortably.
“Immediately after the cla-ss, report to the photo studio” Prof Stella smiled.
They nodded before going back to their sit.
“You won’t believe that she’s my roommate” Naomi smiled and the girls turned to look at her.
“What?”
“We are shocked because you’re not sitting with your crush today” Erica said.
“I decided to sit with my girls today” Naomi winked.
“You said Jenis is your roommate, you can try to introduce her to us sometimes” Gwen said with a smile.
“Yeah, so I can punch her on the face” Lucky scoffed and Gwen chuckled.
Prof Stella shared other results expect from Gwen.
“Prof Stella” Gwen raised her hands up and Prof Stella turned to look at her.
“You didn’t give me mine” she said.
“Gwyneth Lee?” Prof Stella asked and Gwen nodded.
“Meet me in my office immediately after cla-ss” she said and faced the board.
Gwen blinked repeatedly before looking at the girls.
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Prof Stella was sitting on her desk and typing her laptop when a knock sounded on her door.
“Come in” she replied.
The door slowly opened and Gwen slowly stepped in.
“You asked me to see you immediately after cla-ss” she sounded unsure as she took some slow strides in.
“Have a sit” Prof Stella eyes still remained in her laptop.
Gwen nodded and sat down, she cleared her throat and straightened up.
“What do you think about this painting” Prof Stella pushed Gwen’s painting towards her.
Gwen looked at it and looked back at Prof Stella.
“I don’t know” she muttered.
“It don’t look sincere Gwyneth, an artist painting must always look true, sincere and emotional, just by looking at it you will have to feel what it means” Prof Stella said.
Gwen cleared her throat slowly but didn’t say anything.
“Here” Prof Stella checked her desk and brou-ght out a squee-zed paper, she unwrapped it and showed it to Gwen.
“How did you feel when you looked at this last night?” She asked.
Gwen gasped, it was the painting Chase gave her last night but how did Prof Stella have it.
“How did you…
“Does it matter?” Prof Stella cut her off and Gwen sighed a bit.
“Last night, when you looked at this, you felt some sort of emotions running throu-ghyour body, some kind of tingling sensations right?” Prof Stella asked and Gwen slowly looked at her before looking at the painting again.
“This is what a sincere painting looks like, you should feel something each time you look at a painting, you should feel the sincerity of that painting either happiness or sad or loneliness or anything you can describe” Prof Stella explained.
Gwen remembered last night and blinked severally.
“Reflect about what I just said now Gwen, you can leave” Prof Stella said before turning her swivel chair to look at the window.
Gwen swallowed and stood up before leaving the office.
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“Aish! You two need to be closer!” The photographer sighed.
Jace looked at Jenis and she moved closer to him just by a step.
The photographer shook his head.
Jace pulled Jenis closer by the shoulder, he made their cheeks touched and Jenis gasped.
“Perfect, now smile” the photographer smiled.
Jace and Jenis smiled but Jenis smile looked forced thou.
The photographer took the picture and gave them a thumb up.
“Here you’ll need this” Jace gave Jenis a bottle water when they both came out of the studio.
“Thank you” she collected it and began drinking.
“You looked really nervous back then, it’s just a picture” he said.
“No it’s not just a picture, I’ll be in the school notice board where everyone will see my face” she replied.
“So?” Jace asked.
“You don’t get it, I don’t want anyone to develop any interest in me or anything, I just..” her phone began ringing and she stopped talking.
“I’ll talk to you later, need to answer this” she excused herself.
Jace smiled and watched her leave before leaving too.
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Vicente was sitting on the couch with a girl, she was laying on the chair with her head on his shoulders and they were watching a movie together.
The doorbell sounded.
“Pumpkin are you expecting someone?” Shirley asked with a pout.
Vic sighed and stood up, he slowly opened the door but his eyes brightened up when he saw Dominic standing in his door step with his luggage.
“Dominic” he hug-ged him immediately but Dominic pulled away.
“Chase for now” he replied and Vicente rolled his eyes before making space for Dominic to enter.
“Pumpkin who’s that?” Shirley stood up and walked to them, she was putting on a huge cardigan, shorts and coloured socks.
“Oh sorry pumpkin I didn’t tell you my cousin was going to come stay with us for a guy” he said with a wry chuckle.
“This cute guy is your cousin?” Shirley asked with a smile.
“Hey I’m jealous here” Vic frowned.
“Awwn don’t be, you know you’re the cutest” she smiled and poked his arms before looking at Dominic.
“My name is Shirley and your cousin is my boyfriend” she introduced.
“Chase” he replied simply.
“Cool” Shirley smiled.
“I’ll show you your room come on, pumpkin order dinner for us” Vicente said and Shirley nodded.
Vicente led Dominic to his room.
“We have two rooms, this one is untouched because Shirley and I share a room” Vic said.
“Isn’t that like a taboo since you two aren’t married yet?” Chase said and sat on the bed.
Vic smiled and sat down beside him.
“In this current generation, there’s nothing like taboo” he said and looked at Dominic’s face.
“Hey you look a little off, are you okay?” He asked gently.
Dominic shook his head.
“I’m fine” he muttered
“I don’t think so, I know that look, is it a girl?” Vic smirked and there was silent for a while before Dominic started speaking.
“I mean I don’t know why she has to be so cold and heartless towards me, I just really admire her” he sighed.
“Admire?” Vic asked.
“I don’t get it, one point it’s like she likes me and another point it’s like she hates me, like I don’t get her and I don’t even get why I’m affected too” he looked confused.
“So you like this girl who you think don’t take you seriously?” Vic asked and Dominic looked elsewhere.
“Why don’t you ignore her then, prove her wrong and make her feel like you don’t actually care” Vic smiled and Dominic turned to look at him.
“Don’t give me that look now, how did you think Shirley and I became a thing?” He asked with a smirk.
“I don’t even know what to do” Dominic sighed.
“Of course you don’t and that’s why you have me in your life, I’ll talk to you about this but let’s go downstairs for dinner first” Vic stood up and left the room.
Dominic watched him leave before standing up and following behind.
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????So cute!
????They look so cute together!
????OMG the girl is so pretty!
????What type of skin care is she using?
Students kept gushing at the picture of Jace and Jenis on the school notice board.
“The picture isn’t even that pretty” Lucky rolled her eyes.
“It is don’t be jealous” Naomi teased and Gwen chuckled.
Chase suddenly walked towards them.
“Chase” Naomi called and Chase looked at her with a smile.
“Hey there, I’m sorry we couldn’t get to the top” he said with an apologic smile.
“It’s fine, we still scored something didn’t we” Naomi chuckled and he nodded.
Gwen was looking at him from behind but he didn’t look her way.
“So I’ll see you in clas-slater, bye, ahhh… Lucky… Erica” he greeted the both of them and began leaving.
Gwen narrowed her eyes a bit.
“Chase, you forgot my friend Gwen” Naomi called him back.
Chase paused on his movement.
TBC