Fighting Gravity / A Jordan Knight FanFic ✔️

06

Molly

MOLLY FINISHED READING the last page of her notes before walking into her organizational behavior class for a quiz. She'd spent the night reading and studying after she stopped wondering why Jordan hadn't called. Molly turned to put her purse on her chair when she saw him again—the guy with the hoodie—outside her class. Molly glanced at the clock. She had five minutes until class started. She had an idea and decided to run with it. She had nothing to lose. She pushed out of her seat and made her way over to him.

"Excuse me, do you know what time it is?"

He looked down at his phone. "Uh, it's 12:55."

"Thanks." She turned to go, but then turned back quickly. "That's an interesting book you're reading. What class is it for?"

"It's not for a class. I'm just reading it on my own."

"Do you have a class today?"

"No, not today."

"This is a weird place to just hang out," she said with a smile. "Are you waiting for someone?"

"Yes, my girlfriend has a class in this hall."

"Which class?"

"Um, finance."

"Really? Because the only other class in this hall today besides organizational behavior is economics."

"Economics... that's right. I knew it was something like that," he replied with certainty.

"There are no economics classes in this hall." Molly put her hands on her hips. "What kind of shit are you trying to pull? Are you following me?"

He stood taller and looked her square in the eye. "I don't even know who you are. Why would you say that?"

His left eye twitched and she felt in her gut she was right. She knew one way to find out for sure. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw her professor strolling into the classroom. She turned to walk toward class and then spun back around to face him. "Tell Jordan he needs to call me immediately."

She bounded back into the room and flew into her chair. Frustration and anger boiled under her skin. She glanced back at him, and he was staring at her. She knew she was right. Her instincts told her days ago that something was weird about him. Jordan was so concerned for her safety but quickly dismissed the guy following her? Bullshit. What the hell was he doing? Why would he have her followed? Didn't he trust her? Molly's professor cleared his throat and began to pass out the quiz. Molly took a deep breath before she flipped the page. She would have to deal with Jordan later.

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After the quiz, Molly sat through a lecture on hiring practices. The subject was one of the reasons she had taken the class, but she found it difficult to focus. She thought her exam went surprisingly well, considering she was fuming the entire time. The hoodie guy wasn't outside the door after class. She must have scared the shit out of him. Jordan was probably ripping him to shreds for getting caught. Or... maybe she was wrong. Maybe he was questioning who the psycho was that told him to tell some guy named Jordan to call her. She shook her head. She trusted her instincts. Molly had been around Jordan's security all summer. She noticed them and how they tried to blend in and not call attention to themselves. Was there a reason Jordan was having her watched? Did something happen to him?

Molly frantically pulled out her phone and scanned the Internet as she walked back to her dorm. She cringed as she read the gossip pages. A "trusted" source had revealed that Jordan had made several calls to Allison Gregory. They were planning a date when he returned to Boston. Allison had just finished filming for her latest movie and was spending some time relaxing in the city. She had been heard saying his name and laughing as she spoke to him on the phone. Apparently they were trying to keep their romance under wraps.