A Fair Trade by Kam London

Author:Kam London [London, Kam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Four

Stella Fairborne

Caught red-handed

Bulldozed

I hated Mondays. It was a reminder that you lived in a cycle of study, eat, sleep, repeat. The only break from the sequence was the weekend when you got a little bit more freedom, but not too much freedom in case you got comfortable and forgot that your entire life rested on sticking to the rotation.

This Monday was the worst because it was the first day back to my own cycle of classes, homework, eat, sleep, repeat, after spending the weekend with Quinn.

And I missed him.

I missed him more than I thought possible. His smile was etched in my mind, and his laughter played on repeat in my ear.

My headphones blasted Aerosmith at the loudest setting in the hopes of keeping my mind on the equation that sat in front of me. My leg bounced along in time to the track, as I sat at the little table in the back of the library, making use of the almost empty space. The librarian and a couple of students were the only ones here besides me. Everyone else was at lunch break, and the social outcasts were the ones who normally took residence in the library at this time.

I just wasn’t in the mood to sit in the canteen and make mindless conversation with random people that I wasn’t even friends with. Hell, I didn’t even want to talk to my real friends at the moment, I was ignoring Ellie too. She had called me twice this morning, and I’d sent her to voicemail both times.

I was officially a shitty friend.

I wanted to share it with her, have another perspective about my current predicament. But her parents had gotten a divorce a few years back when her dad cheated on her mom, so the minute I mentioned to her that Quinn was married, I would lose her. It had wrecked her and the scandal had ruined her family. She still refused to have anything to do with her dad after all these years, so I knew she would never forgive me.

I was at risk of losing Quinn when the truth came out. I couldn’t risk losing my best friend too.

The chair across from me was pulled out, and I ignored it and the person who had joined my table. I didn’t own it, and it was a free country, they could sit wherever the fuck they liked. Though why they had to sit at the table I had commandeered with all of my papers when there was a shit ton of tables littered about the place they could sit at I didn’t know. Peeking at the person who proceeded to scrape the chair legs across the wooden floor and piss off the librarian by the look of the scowl on her face, I watched as Gemma—Callie’s pet sheep—dumped her bag on the floor beside her, as if hundreds of dollars of designer bag could just be chucked on the ground and treated so carelessly. It angered me that privileged assholes didn’t appreciate the things that they had.

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