AN's

at the worst

ndfolded. Her dress was on the floor,

intensity of what only my touch could do to her, an

called out from behind the door

ircling me all semester, trying to prove so

also recognized the voice, and her hand was alread

st before she co

I could see the way her chest heaved up

rds the door immediately without looking at her face

open first, before Xavier would open it at his

here with his mouth a

ocking out everything behind me-most importantly, the a

rofessor's door wit

sor Lorcan, I just thought the door was s

Xavier?" I cut him

blinked. "I didn't

point. I don't ha

k past me, but I shifted my weight and pulled

the paper you shared ye

busy today." I said already ste

days are

row, X

eyes flickered once

morrow." He said and walked away, and I closed

the door, and I could hear Aleena's b

he pulled it loose. "Did he see me?" She

, I just walked

he said sharply this

desk, sat on it and opened

d h

essed,

uldn't. If I did, I'd see her standing there, looking vu

o feel safe with me bec

es, and the ruffle of her jacket as she put it on, a

I heard her footsteps r

ed again, but I didn't answe

, walked out and the doo

lly looked up, and I

ut when I finally came back to reality, I reac

hotograph that had been si

ng flowing dark hair that was cut i

e way she arranged her hair, the way she tucked it

a coincidence that she also ha

eyes-Aleena

ngue and wit

y be the same person? Had she

o

ook a deep breath a

aring at me with that

hest-the thing I had b

he edges and the photogr

grip. I wasn't going to destroy the photogr

awer and locked it, and my m

way she answered my question about Foucault like she'd been waiting her whole lif

like the woman i

exactly

me way of holding herself like she had already

meant, and I was not s

looking out into the campus, and my m

mit it to myself yet th