Nathan's POV -

"You two have had a relationship?" I asked in complete surprise as I walked into the room.

Louise had tried to stop me from listening to what they had to say, but I knew there was something else going on between Rachel and Mr.Parker.

Especially with the way there were when I walked in at the beginning of the lesson and then how they were at the end when Mr.Parker came over and spoke to us; she left pretty quickly and was in a pretty bad state.

I was going to follow her and ask her about it earlier, but she was too fast for me to keep up with. I just left her to it and let her go off. She clearly needed the time to calm down.

And now I understood why.

They had been together before; it was obvious that there were still some strong emotions between them and they weren't willing to let them go.

Even if they broke the law in the process.

"I told him to leave you alone, but he just wouldn't listen to me. He wanted to know what was happening." Louise panicked as she appeared in the room beside me, giving me a look that would kill a person.

"You know you shouldn't be teaching here if you've been with her in the past..." I pointed out, just trying to make sure they actually understood how serious this situation was and how bad this idea actually was.

"And how would you know that?" Tom replied.

"I study Law. I know enough to know that it's against the law for you to have a relationship and, should you have had one in the past, then either Rachel needs to move classes or you, Mr.Parker, need to leave the school and go elsewhere." I stated smugly.

"Look, there's nothing going on between us anymore. He made sure of that one over a month ago..." Rachel sighed as she turned her back on him, not even being able to bring herself to look at him any longer.

"Wait? Is he the one that you slept with?" I asked, the realisation suddenly setting in with what she had just said.

When we were talking during the lesson, she didn't mention any names, but she made it clear that he was the only person that she ever loved; she really did want to be with him but didn't want her heart broken again.

I could tell from the way that she talked about him and describe the things that they did together, that she loved him and hated the fact he just left her.

He left her with nothing.

No note. No message. No nothing.

He even refused to see her and explain himself to her. He deserves so much better than her, but she just can't let go of her feelings for him.

"You told them about that while he was in the room? Are you stupid Rach?" Louise snapped at her bestfriend, treating her like she was stupid. But it's not like she actually mentioned any names when she came out with it, and she didn't even finish telling people what the last thing was he said to her.

She couldn't do that to herself, and she couldn't do it to him either.

"Leave her alone, she never even said it was him. You're supposed to be her bestfreind and help her out, not make her feel even worse than she already does." I replied, automatically sticking-up for Rachel because it wasn't fair on her to be treated like that.

"Well, when you have people like Lauren in the group, it's not even something you say. Do you know how she's going to use that against you now?" Louise laughed.

"I don't really care what she does anymore. Compared to everything I've been through, some jealousy from Lauren is nothing. Just leave me alone!" Rachel replied as she walked out of the room, slamming the door behind her; guessing she was pretty annoyed with everything that was going on.

Of course, Louise wasted no time in chasing after her; playing the caring best friend that only wanted the best for her. But she wasn't doing that, she was just treating her like an idiot and making her feel even worse than she already did.

I just felt sorry for her, I had only known her for a double lesson but she seemed like such an amazing girl, yet she was going through so much and there were so few people actually wanting to help her.

Even her best friend was telling her that she was stupid and implied that she didn't know what she was doing.

"Nathan?"

"Yes Mr.Parker?" I replied, stopping in my path and turning to look at him.

"Make sure Louise doesn't go too hard on Rachel for me. None of this is her fault..." he sighed.

"You know, she must still love you." I said.

"And how do you know that?" he asked.

"If she didn't, then she would have told the whole class the last words you said to her that night. Just of of curiosity, what did you say to her that night?" I questioned him, wanting to know what was so special that she didn't want to repeat it in front of the whole History group; it must have been something that meant everything to her, or she would just have told everyone.

"Something that I should never have said because I always knew I was going to leave her." he stated, turning his back on me. I just took that as my hint to leave him alone and I left the classroom, going in search of Rachel and Louise, just to make sure Rachel wasn't getting it too hard from Louise.

Tom's POV -

Once Nathan had walked out of the room, I sat back down at my desk, putting my head in my hands and stopping myself from crying.

She still drove me crazy, even now. The way she smiled when she was talking to Nathan, the way that she laughed when he said something funny or witty, the way she looked at Nathan while he was speaking to her.

I missed her. I missed everything about her. From the way her eyes reflected the sunlight during the day to the way her hair fell across her face whenever there was a light breeze.

I wanted her.

I needed her.

I didn't want to let her go, but as soon as I got this job, it was always going to happen. I had always told myself that my job came before relationships, and that wasn't going to change; I loved my job more than anything.

Teaching History was what I studied so hard for, with my music in the middle of that when I had five minutes to sit down and actually play the guitar. But even now, I couldn't do my two favourite things because they both reminded me of her.

Everything came back to Rachel and the time we spent together.

I'd tried eveything to make me forget her. I'd been out drinking with a group of friends, got so smashed that I had no idea what I was doing and woke up each morning with a different woman beside me.

But even that wasn't enough to take away the feelings I felt for Rachel.

Now, all she saw me as, was her History teacher. And all she saw herself as, was my student.

It was my job to ensure she passed the subject.

Nothing else.

"Tom?" I looked up to see Louise stood in the doorway.

"What Louise? And, in school, you call me Mr.Parker!" I replied.

"You never told Rachel that. What is this, favouritism?" Louise snapped violently, not that I was bothered. I'd never really liked her anyway. Or the way that she treated Rachel all the time.

"I'm really not in the mood for this. What do you want?" I sighed as I finally continued to arrange the work I was going to need for my next group.

Year 10. A year of teaching them about the fall of Weimar Germany, followed by the rise and fall of Nazi Germany.

Don't get me wrong, I loved that part of History. I just wasn't in the mood for it this afternoon.

"Rachel is refusing to speak to either me or Nathan now." Louise finally said after looking at me without any words for a moment.

"What? And you think she's going to speak to me?" I questioned with a slight laugh; that just sounded like a complete joke to me. I'm pretty sure I'm the last person she wants to speak to now.

"You're the only one that she's going to listen to. You have to at least try and talk to her. You did love her at one point, right?"

"Still do love her, but that's beside the point. I've got a lesson to prepare for, I'm sorry Louise." I replied.

"This is all your fault. Until the day she met you, she was fine, then you just had to ruin everything for her. I wish she had never met you Tom." Louise shouted. I mean, she was right, but it wasn't her place to say anything to me because it was nothing to do with her anyway.

"Tell me something I don't know. Now, please leave me and let me get ready for my next lesson." I sighed, turning my back on Louise, hoping she would get the message and understand I wasn't going to get involved. I'd already done enough and I'm pretty sure Rachel didn't need me making her life any worse for her.

If this is how everything was going to go, then it was going to be one hell of a year.

Not just for Rachel, but for me as well.

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