Grace Notes

Chapter 64

Lola's POV-

Thanksgiving was officially one week away, and Grayson and I had, I guess officially, been together for two days shy of half a month. And of course, I still had not heard from Harry. With each day that I thought of everything that had happened between us, it brought a slew of both anger, but also relief. And that relief brought a sense of freedom, even though deep down I felt like everything was wrong.

I was over at Grayson's house, tapping the back of my pen against my notebook and trying to focus on my class. Behind me, Grayson was working on painting a canvas he had been working on of a fishing boat washed up on the beach during a storm. Though both of us being focused, it proved to be distracting, nonetheless. That last thing I wanted to do right now was school, and having to take notes was even worse. We finally had our permanent professor placed in the class, and even though I had been invited to do class in person again, I had made the decision to continue online. It saved gas money, and I didn't want to bet on my car dying again.

This professor, Professor Williams, was greatly more monotonous than our substitute had been. It was one big yawn party. I already knew what arpeggios were, and could inevitably pass this class without attending at all. Unfortunately, being absent more than a few days would get me kicked out, and attendance was mandatory and worth ten percent of the grade.

"You look like you're having a grand old time" Grayson spoke.

I glanced over my shoulder at him. "Why aren't you on campus, anyways? I know for a damn fact you've already met the amount of absences to get kicked"

"I've only missed three" he smirked. "And I've gotten better with my homework. I just didn't feel like going today."

"You're not going to know anything on the next exam"

"I will" he shrugged. "And I use Quizlet to study ahead of time"

"Cheater"

"You're just jealous you didn't think of that"

"I don't want to cheat if I don't have to, but I don't even need to since I already know all of this crap" I gestured to the laptop screen. "I used Quizlet for some of my other classes, though"

"It's better to do it with the online ones, because you can just bring up the answers on another device while you do the exams"

"Unless they use the lockdown browser thing"

"I never downloaded that. I told them it wasn't compatible with my computer and that I couldn't afford another one. They told me to take it in the library, but I told them it was too distracting with all of the couples making out"

That was something the campus library had somewhat gotten known for. It was cute at first, but then it just got annoying once it made me feel too single.

"Yeah, I can see that" I agreed, moving my chin to my hand.

"So essentially an arpeggio is a broken chord" Professor Williams went on. "You can move outside of an octave with it, and it is made up of the first, third, and fifths notes of the key scale"

"Tell me something I don't already know" I mumbled to myself. "This is literally so stupid"

"You know he won't count you absent if you leave early, only tardy" Grayson said.

"Still, that is going to add up if I have to be tardy another time"

"Your loss"

Beside me, my phone began buzzing. When I glanced down, I was surprised to see Harry's name on my screen.

What in the world...

For a moment, I debated whether to answer, or not. I didn't know why he was calling. Maybe to apologize, maybe not. I couldn't really think of any other reason, which made me not want to answer. After all, he didn't deserve my forgiveness. But as I sat staring at the screen, I realized that he may have been calling if he was planning on coming back for Thanksgiving to make sure I knew not to come over and take care of Atti. If that was the case, I probably should answer.