Belladonna | 18 +

Twenty four | Secret glances & second date plans

To say this whole week has been hard would be an understatement. But it's finally Thursday which means I'm seeing my brother later on today.

All week, I've been sneaking away to Reynolds's office to share small moments with her, which is mainly us making out or to simply talking and sharing small kisses.

Each time I think it's something electric because there's no way someone's kiss can make it feel like a thousand fireworks are being set off inside me. I always revel in the moment too, whether it's a small moment or a bigger one.

However there's a downside, she makes it hard to focus during class, she takes these little glances at me where her normally hardened gaze softens and it makes me blush in her class which prompts questions from Felix and I always have to tell him it's something someone else sent me during the lesson.

They make me special though.

I'm also enjoying how I know I'm the only one to see Reynolds's soft side, no one else sees it—I think. But I do.

"Right, I've given you until next Monday to complete this paper, I want it on my desk no later than 9 am Monday. Any later and I'll count it as a fail." Reynolds spoke sternly from the front of the room.

We all started shuffling our papers around and packed our stuff away.

"Russ, stay behind," Reynolds called, and immediately my attention turned to Felix.

He seemed just as surprised as I did.

He sat back down and people walked past us, down the stairs and out. I waited too because it's normally what I do.

However, I felt uncomfortable waiting with just Felix here. We'd take these moments to just exchange glances at each other or have small conversations around the most off-topic things.

"Did you not hand in anything?" I asked Felix as he sat next to me.

"What did I hand in is the question," he scoffed. "you don't have to worry about it though, I'm sure Ava's already told you." He said rudely.

I was stunned for a moment. All week Felix has been crude and sarcastic with everyone. And not in a good way.

If we have a group hangout, he's the first person to tip the mood by saying something completely unrelated to the situation or just throwing snarky comments around. He's making it hard to keep taking his side or even understand where he's coming from.

Over the last two days, it's a been about how Ava doesn't care for him enough or he'll throw snarky comments around about Ella's poor dating choices. He even

The problem is it's all at random and we're all collectively growing tired of it.

"You don't have to be a dick about everything Felix. She cares about you but I think I'm starting to understand why she thinks it's hard to keep caring for you." I said to him in an annoyed tone but he didn't seem to care or even seem fazed.

"Aberdeen wait at my office." She said coldly as she continued to shuffle papers on her desk.

I did exactly that. I got up and left leaving Felix and his sour mood.

Walking to her office without having her in front of me felt weird, I felt like I was going to just be intruding on her space. Or like I was walking to a place I wasn't supposed to be even though I've been here every day since the semester started.

It just felt weird.

I got to the lecture hallway and walked to her office and stopped in my tracks because I didn't exactly ever count on seeing this particular person here.