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d I ge

etter didn't change. The huge red F stared at me, and I e

in a hurry, a night before the deadline. I was lucky I didn't fail because-" She nudged me by the elbow.

d. "How did you get an F?" She went through the paper again.

y citation, I rewrote the introduction..." I sighed. "I can't afford to fail this class, because if I

the paper on the desk. "Maybe the

sh her sentence, and Lorcan who was at the podium,

Miss M

s been a mistak

again, and everyone looked up

his cold grey eyes found mine inst

terred. "I made sure every thing was correct. I need this

r paper." He said in a flat voice lik

ead. "So can you tell me

't good

"That's not

o get, Miss Marsh." He looked back d

frozen, with the failed paper still in my ha

use I didn't need to. I a

my bag, picked it up, hung it over

she hurriedly stood up, the chair scra

orridor was crowded with studen

alking fast. "That was insane, Allie. Why would

finish, Xavier wa

is arm-a pretty blonde he had been

annoying smirk on his face. "Maybe you should have spent

his chest, with her red lipstick, slightly

jacket, the gold watch, the smug face,

hould rather hope the tutor your daddy pays to help with your grade doesn't slip up, so you can graduate." I stepped

His smirk flickered, and his girlfriend looked at him-with confusion spread all ove

ything, I just walked past him,

ll

k, and I didn't stop walking either.

can's office in the faculty building,

o say to him when I walk into his office. I was jiggling two things at a time,

ront of his door, i

n from inside, and th

in and I had to s

l was going

le and I stepped forward a

or Sylv

eveled. Her face was flushed, and her body language was unmista

e looked at Lorcan, always going to his offic

ure but I had just witnessed it first hand. They had been doin

knock. My grade was far more important

e door swung open, and Sylvie stood at th

Miss Marsh?" She said, try

o see Profe

ing at my short fitted skirt, and then travelled back up to the jacket

a second later, it opened agai

sion flat. "It's

ong moment then she closed

uld hear the low murmurs th

ound her neck, probably hiding marks she didn't want me to see, and I didn't want to examine it

o the door and

d up and the first two buttons of his shirt undone-making hi

ok my head. That'

." He said in a low and hus