Dying for an Education by Stacey Alabaster

Author:Stacey Alabaster [Alabaster, Stacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2019-01-19T05:00:00+00:00

15

Alyson

Sam settled in the seat next to me with a stack of heavy textbooks and notepads and a laptop. He was a pretty thin guy. I didn’t know how he managed to lug all those things around campus.

This was supposed to be a Rick Niemer lecture, so everyone was a little on edge as we waited for the replacement to arrive. “Will it be Adrian?” I asked Sam.

He rolled his eyes a little as if I didn’t know anything and shook his head. “Adrian doesn’t teach semantics. This will probably be that no-hoper B—”

A thin, older man with a nice smiley face entered the room and tried to calm our nerves by telling us that his name was Bruce Helen and he would be teaching the class until further notice. Sam grunted a little and told me this was who he was expecting. And he was very far from impressed. “Talk about a downgrade.”

I didn’t think Bruce was so bad. He explained the concepts in a simple way, even if he was lacking the humor and nuance of Rick. He had a can of Diet Coke that he sipped from every now and then during the breaks between slides and then set down neatly on the center of the desk. Sam complained about everything Bruce did, including the soda can, which Sam found to be highly unprofessional.

“His only crime is not being Rick Niemer, and that is a crime that most of us are guilty of,” I said to Sam.

Sam sat back in his seat and didn’t say much after that.

After class, I made sure that Sam and I left together. He was a quick walker and didn’t wait for me, so I had to power-walk to catch up. I only had a few more days left on campus and the weekend was about to start. I needed to get info from Sam before he went back to his parents’ house on the weekend.

“Can you show me where it happened?” I asked Sam as we crossed one of the courtyards. Sam had a break between lectures and was going back to the dorms.

I was almost too embarrassed to ask what I’d asked, so I asked it in this weird, pitiful, almost ashamed way

Sam looked confused. He stopped walking. “Where what happened?”

Oh great, he was going to make me say it.

“Where Rick was killed. Pushed.” I had to cough to clear my throat when the words got stuck there. It was not an easy thing to have to ask Sam, but he was the one who could actually help me. He lived on campus and he could show me the exact site.

“I can show you the building,” he said with a heavy sigh. “But I’m not sure what good that’s going to do.”

We wandered over to where the accommodation blocks were, in a very green, very tree-lined part of the university that was right off to the side, past the business facility. The towers were all made of sandstone, and they looked to me like something out of Camelot.

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