CourtShip by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: friends to lovers, best friends
Publisher: Noelle Adams
Published: 2018-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

Five

Two days ago

I’M TEACHING AN UPPER-level history class on the Civil War this session, and it’s a lot different from the lower-level survey courses I normally teach.

For one thing, students always linger afterward, wanting to talk to me.

It’s usually questions about assignments or follow-ups on how I grade their papers, but today a girl stays until the other students are gone and wants to know more about one of the points I made in class about nineteenth-century domestic life.

Since it gets close to my dissertation topic, I’m pleased with her interest and happy to give her more information. Because there’s a class that meets in the room after mine, I talk to her as I walk to my office.

When I was a PhD candidate, I shared an office with someone else, but I have my own office now in a building about half a mile from the classroom building.

The student is still with me when I get to the floor of my office. She’s one of those well-dressed southern girls with perfect makeup, shiny hair, and an outfit that’s a step or two above what most undergrads wear to class. She’s smiling and bobbing her head as I talk.

She never struck me as the most academically engaged student, so I’m amazed she’s as fascinated by this topic as she is.

It’s nice though. For someone to care about subjects I know a lot about.

I’m looking down at her, answering another of her questions, as we turn the corner that leads to my office. It’s several seconds before I look down the hall, and when I do I stop short.

Courtney is right outside my office, leaning against the wall and watching me with a frown on her face.

She’s never come to visit me on campus. Not once.

I pick up my speed. “Is everything all right?”

She straightens up and smiles, but her expression is slightly strained. She looks from me to the student beside me and then back again. “Yeah. I was just waiting for you.”

“I’m just getting out of class.”

“I know. I just got here.” She’s wearing her work clothes—a T-shirt with the logo of the community program on it and a pair of low-riding black trousers. Despite the no-frills outfit, she looks gorgeous. Sustaining. Like a swallow of cold water in the desert.

She’s still shooting the student a look I don’t understand. “Are you busy?” she asks at last, when all three of us have just stood there in silence.

I glance down at my student. I don’t have office hours right now, but I’d be happy to talk to any student if they need extra help or if they want more information. Our conversation has pretty much come to an end though, so I figure she’s probably ready to leave.

The girl looks annoyed about something, but then she gives me a wide smile. She’s got on bright red lipstick. I don’t see very many students wearing makeup like that. “I’ll let you go, Dr. Milner. Thanks for talking to me.”

I give her a nod.

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