The next conversation with the smug skyscraper was going to be an interesting one. I could already imagine his smirk when I would have to tell him that we had to work together.

When the class went back to work, Mr Dankworth caught my attention by waving.

Then he did something odd. He put his thumbs up. It was like he was giving me a sign for some secret mission.

I thought that I was maybe imagining it until Lana commented on it.

"Looks like Mr Dankworth is trying to set you up with Stone." She giggled "You are right, Ella. He is a very smart man."

Scowling at her, we packed up our bags at the sound of the bell.

Lana started humming the song she had been writing for a while now. Her voice filled the corridor as we hurried to our lockers.

While she was busy putting her combination into the lock, I leaned against my own locker and took my phone out.

There was no hesitation in my fingers when my phone lit up with an incoming call from Stone.

I pressed accept before bringing the phone to my ear and greeting him "You rang, Lurch?"

"Medusa." The deep guttural voice greeted back.

"Why are you not at school?" I tried to make the question seem nonchalant, but my tone came out as worried.

"Are you missing me, Medusa?"

I smiled to myself before rebutting "You would know if you were here."

"If I was there then you wouldn't miss me." The grumble of a voice rebutted.

"True."

I slapped my forehead and let out a groan as soon as the word left my mouth.

"What I meant was that if I was missing you then it would true." I tried to cover up my previous mistake by rambling on "Which it is not. It is not true because I don't miss you—"

"Drizella." The rough husky voice of the man on the other end of the line uttered "Do you have your arms crossed or is your hand running through your hair?"

One of my hands was holding my phone and the other was tangled in my green hair.

I untwisted a strand of my hair that had been wrapped around my finger and sighed.

"I was so not doing that!" I blurted.

"Of course, you were not, Medusa."

I huffed out my question "How did you know?"

He chuckled but he did not answer.

"You are such a stalker." I told him while I leant my back against my locker "Do you just sit and watch me?"

The gravelly voice was unapologetic and blunt when he grumbled "Yes."

I felt a smile take over my face as I rebutted "I think you are the one that misses me, Valentine."

There was no reply from him for a while. A few minutes passed and all I could hear through the phone was deep breaths.

"Hello?" I said into the phone.