A Higher Education by Rosalie Stanton

Author:Rosalie Stanton [Stanton, Rosalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780999437223
Publisher: Wright & Pryce
Published: 2018-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

22

“Oh my god, are you okay?” Jane asked, dropping her backpack, her face stricken. “What happened?”

Elizabeth shook her head, willing herself not to burst into tears. She’d been doing all right, she’d thought. Better than she would have expected, considering the conversation with Will had gone about as well as your average train wreck.

“Nothing,” Elizabeth said at last. “I’m just tired.”

“Bull. Something happened.” Jane rushed over to her bed and pulled her into a hug. “Talk to me.”

“I don’t want to bore you with—”

“Lizzie.” She pulled back, her eyes narrowing. “You have two choices. Tell me freely or I’ll yodel at full volume until you do.”

Elizabeth stared at her for a moment. “Yodel?”

“Very, very poorly.”

“Is there such a thing as good yodeling?”

“No.” Jane sat back, crossing her arms. “Or maybe I’ll just guess. Was it Will?”

There was that pang again. “Huh? W-why would it be Will?”

“Because you’re not as stealthy as you think when you’re talking about a guy you had amazing sex with. That was not the toughest mystery to crack.”

“Will and I haven’t seen each other in weeks!”

“Except that class you guys have together and the way you both disappeared after running into each other at the club.” Jane arched an eyebrow. “Are you forgetting that I ran into him in the hall as he was leaving that night? You guys were fooling around.”

“We were n—okay, yes, we were fooling around. I didn’t realize it was that obvious.”

Jane snorted. “I’m a virgin, not an infant. You looked really…relaxed when I got home.”

Elizabeth let out a burst of laughter before covering her mouth. “Fair enough. I should not have doubted your sex-radar.”

“Indeed.” Jane nodded, looking immensely pleased with herself before the concern returned to her eyes. “So, what happened? Did you guys fight?”

That was putting it mildly. She chewed the inside of her cheek for a moment in a bid for time, then released a long sigh and glanced down. “I suck.”

“What happened?”

“This whole thing with Will has been a disaster,” she said. That awful, chest-crushing sensation returned with a vengeance. Elizabeth inhaled deeply but her lungs burned as though denied oxygen. “I don’t even know how it happened.”

Jane offered a soft, Jane-like smile that made Elizabeth feel better and worse at the same time. “You guys have chemistry. Everyone can see it.”

“I don’t want chemistry with him. You know what he did to Wickham.”

Jane pursed her lips. “I know what Wickham said he did to him, based on what you told me. But do we know if that’s even true?”

“What reason would Wickham have to lie?”

“Well, he likes you, doesn’t he? I’d say turning his main competition into a super villain is a good way to come out ahead, don’t you?”

“I told him Will wasn’t competition,” Elizabeth said.

“Yes, and I’m sure you were very convincing.”

“He didn’t even know I knew Will when we first met.” Though he’d found out pretty fast. “I told him what I’d thought about him and it wasn’t flattering.”

There was a long pause, and the skepticism in Jane’s eyes didn’t go away.

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