Dear Professor

Step by step, we advance

—- Heyy ! Yes, I know I took way too long to update, but uni got the best of me and took all my time, but here I am with a new chapter which I made longer than usual as an apology for the long waiting... I hope y'all like it, enjoy your reading!! (Also as I've written this at 5 Am this is unedited so i apologise for any major spelling errors, if you see some, feel free to tell me!)—-

After he heard me his features softened for a minute before changing into something I could only interpret as guilt. I frowned and was about to ask what was wrong before he cut me off. "Of course, we can settle a meeting so we'll have all the time needed but right now I gotta leave... I have a meeting I didn't know you would come, I'm really sorry". Seeing he was apologising for something he had no reason for I just stopped him and laughed a bit "Hey, it's okay, I'm not dying, just go to your meeting". He smiled softly and nodded "Right, meeting Friday, after your last period is that okay ?", I nodded and we settled on the last details and said bye to each other before I left.

It's only when I was out and after a hot minute that I realised how easy that was, I knew he said he was there but he didn't even ask for details, nor even a reason. It just took me to say that I needed him, for him to settle a meeting. The most impressive thing was that he chose Friday, which is by far the day that arranged me the most. Indeed, my last period on Friday finish at 3pm, meaning I had plenty of time after. However I also knew that he, on the other hand, finishes at 10 am on Fridays, which means he was willing to stay back in uni for all these hours just to meet me. That was unattempted.

Being done for the day, I just got my shit together and headed home to spend the day doing my favourite thing: Lying on my couch, watching T.V and eating snacks.And that's just what I did, not bothering to prepare the classes for the next day.

Time went rather fast and it was soon night, my evening was as uneventful as my day has been, apart from a quick call to Nylah just to gossip about our respective lives, eventually trying to settle on a day when we could see each other. Settling on the next week-end, we hung up. I spent the rest of my evening as well as the beginning of the night on my phone and eventually decided to go to sleep at 2 am knowing I'd have to get up at 7 am and that my first class was again, with no one else than Downey himself.

As always, I struggled to fall asleep and only succeeded around 4 am. The next morning, the alarm was so loud that I nearly fell off my bed because of the jump it made me do. Note to myself: always check the sound of the alarm before going to bed. I dragged my limp body out of bed and went to take a quick shower to wake myself up. Getting ready I wore something comfortable but still fancy enough, having a light V neck as well as some flare pants.

I arrived in class, and settled down in the front as always, but this time I left a row between his desk and mine, which has been completely useless. Indeed, the first row remained completely deserted and it was as if I was right in front of him after all, with less proximity.

He clapped his hands once to catch our attention and waited to be sure everyone was attentive to start talking "Alright class, as y'all know the end of the second trimester is close, which means I have to fill in your marks. However, while searching yesterday, I realised that I gave you back one of your tests without taking notes of your grades, so, I'm asking you to send me a photo of that test before tomorrow night."

Every student nodded, well everyone but me, remember the test I asked him to give me back and he never did? Yep, this was the one he was talking about, so sending a photo of it would definitely be complicated for me.

He proceeded to show us an app with which we had to scan the test in order to send it to him. That intervention resulted in a global chatter around the class. He passed among the students seeing if everyone understood how it worked and getting to me, he saw I hadn't even opened the app.