Sage's P.O.V
The next day I can't concentrate in class, my mind keeps going back to the night before. The newborn was resuscitated and taking into immediate open heart surgery, I don't know if it survived and it has really been bothering me
Sitting in my psychology class I feel a tap on my shoulder and I turn to see Xavier. One of the best players on the basketball team, he's here on a full scholarship. He's attractive, don't get me wrong, but he knows it and is extremely cocky and that isn't attractive. He slept with every undergraduate girl my freshman year, apart from me, they all drooled over him because he was the popular senior on the basketball team.
He has been bothering me ever since I turned him down my sophomore year. It has been three fuckin years and it can finally end this year. He graduates and I'll never have to see his face again.
"What Xavier?" I ask while keeping part of my attention on what the professor is saying
"You seem distracted, are you alright?" He asks and I sigh knowing if he noticed something was off then anyone walking by will know something is bothering me
"I'm fine" I say turning around. That was weird, everything he has ever said towards me was perverted in some type a way
I feel him lean closer to my back "I can help take your mind off whatever it is" He says and I know he's either smirking or biting his lip. Should've known he was going to say something stupid
Turning around I raise my hand to slap him but quickly bring my hand back down and glare at him "Actually I don't think you could Xavier. Some of us take school and work seriously and some arrogant asshole can't use the appearance they think they have to make things disappear" I didn't realize my voice had been elevating until I heard the professor calling on me
"Miss Miller" I turn to look at him "Is there a problem?" I shake my head
"No sir" I turn completely back around and look down at my laptop as I feel every pair of eyes in the room looking in my direction
"Let's continue then" And the lesson resumes
After the lesson is over I decide to go to my apartment to grab something to eat and take a shower before heading to the hospital, I have to find out what happened after I left. As I walk to the parking lot to get to my car I feel a hand enclose around my wrist and tug me backwards
"What the fuck do you want?" I ask as I turn around to come face to chest. I look up to see a smirking Xavier "I have somewhere important to be" I say and try to walk off but he won't let go of my wrist
"What did you mean in there? 'Some of us take school and work seriously'. I may be an arrogant asshole who spends most of his time on a court but I take what I do seriously too or I wouldn't have stayed to get my masters. What I do is important to me in ways no one knows" He says and he sounds like my father when he lectures me
"Look, I shouldn't have judged you without knowing you but you haven't left me alone the last three years and it's been getting irritating. Today just wasn't a good day to bother me but I really have to go" I say and he just stares at me
"What is bothering you today Sage? Whatever it is has you completely distracted, I seen the notes you were taking today and it wasn't even what the professor was talking about, it was notes about a neonatal intensive care unit" He says and I put my hand over my face and groan, was it really that bad?
"I work in the NICU and last night right before my shift ended a newborn was rushed in and resuscitated and brought into an immediate open heart surgery. I've had it on my mind all day whether it survived or not and one of the babies I've been taking care of had open heart surgery this morning" I say and sigh "I'm letting it get to me too much"
He reaches into his backpack and hands me a notebook "My notes are in here, the last three or four pages are from today. Copy them. My number is in the front, text me when you have them and I'll meet you to get my book back" He says and puts his bag back on his back "And it's understandable why it's getting to you so much" He finishes his sentence and just walks off leaving me standing there staring at his back as he gets further away
When he's out of sight I snap out of it and rush to my car putting my bag and his notebook in my passenger seat before rushing to get off of campus and to my apartment
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