Addiction

17 || The set up

Fridays are my favourite day of the week.

And today it's Friday. So, I woke up in a good mood and now I am getting ready for a long day. I also have an appointment with Mr. Scott later. His office hours are on Fridays. We have to discuss something about my latest assignment. Honestly, I have no idea what he could possibly want to discuss with me. I will have to wait to find out.

I am in the middle of the last class for today. A class I share with the Devil's spawn. Penelope. She can't stop staring at me with an evil grin while she is biting her pen. I hope she breaks it, eats the ink and gets poisoned.

I roll my eyes at her but she is unbothered. So, I casually raise both my middle fingers towards her direction and I turn my attention elsewhere.

Annoying bitch.

Not a minute later, I hear Olivia's chuckle only to notice that she just threw a pen at Penelope's head who is currently rubbing her head giving my best friend a death glare. "She deserved that." She whispers and I nod smiling satisfied.

Half an hour later, the session was over and I am running to Mr. Scott's office. I knock the door and he immediately answers. I get in, seeing him standing behind his mahogany office, arms crossed to his chest. His muscles flex under that white dress shirt and I try hard not to look.

Stop it, bitch. He is just a hot professor. No big deal.

How much older is he again? No, stop.

"Ms. Hayden, please take a seat." He gestures me to sit down in one of the two chairs in front of his wooden office.

You can call me Audrey or whatever you want.

"Thank you." I smile politely, taking a seat.

"You are probably wondering why you're here." He begins.

"Yes, I actually am. You said it has to do with my assignment." I am actually lost.

"Exactly. Haven't crossed your mind what I want to discuss?" He asks and he sounds kind of irritated.

What the hell?

"I have no idea. I am completely lost actually. What's wrong? I did my best."

"The problem Audrey is that your assignment is the same with Ms. Grayson's. There was an effort to be slightly different but it's pretty obvious that you copied her assignment." My eyes widen.

PENELOPE, YOU PSYCHOTIC BITCH.

"Excuse me?!" My blood already boils, my jaw is clenched and I am ready to get up and go find that bitch and rip her head off.

"You seem actually surprised." He confesses confused.

"Of course I am, I would never do something like that. She is the one who copied my assignment. She did it on purpose because she hates me. It's personal. She wants me to fuck her up again." I say in one breath griping the armrest of the chair hard.

"I will pretend that I didn't hear the last part." He gives me a judgmental look. "Audrey, she delivered her assignment first, almost two days before you did. That says something. That's why I am afraid that I have to zero your assignment." He shakes his head.

"What?!?!?!" I jump from my seat like a cartoon "You can't do that. Just because she delivered hers earlier it doesn't mean that I am the one who cheated. You have to examine the situation. Have you discussed this with her? I will not accept the fact that all my hard work went for nothing and especially because of Penelope who I despise. For God's sake, if I was about to copy someone's assignment it wouldn't be hers." I say all in one, leaving him speechless.