Basic Chemistry: LOVE 101 - WILLOW BAY NOVELLA by Layne Harlow

Author:Layne, Harlow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

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NOVEMBER

Each week I reserve a study room for Roxie and me at the library, and so far, it’s our I guess you would call it our home away from home. It’s the only real place we can get any privacy without fear of interruption. Every Thursday night, I get her all to myself for two hours, and it’s the highlight of my week.

The only problem is Thanksgiving break is next week, and after that, the semester will soon end. I thought that once I’m no longer one of Roxie’s students, she would be open to being seen out in public with me, but she wants to wait until the end of the school year. I’m not sure how we’re going to be able to meet up when she’s no longer my teacher.

“Why do you look so sad?” Roxie asks as she slips on her high heels.

She asks like she didn’t just drop a bombshell on me.

“I don’t see us being able to spend much time together once this semester is over if you won’t be seen with me in public.”

She lets out a sigh as she sits down in the chair across the table from mine. “You were the one who thought everything would change because you’d no longer be in my class. I never told you I’d go out and hold hands with you in front of the student body. I can’t risk my job.”

But she’s willing to risk me.

“How are we going to be able to spend time together?” I ask, sounding like a whiny bitch. When did I turn into the girl in this relationship? I fucking hate what she’s turned me into.

“Merrick, just because you’re not in one of my classes doesn’t mean we can’t still meet here.”

I guess she’s right, but I don’t want to hide anymore. Another six months feels like a lifetime.

“I’m sorry, but that’s how it has to be,” she says like she read my mind. “I’ll have more free time during break. While I can’t give you all my time, it will be more. That’s something, isn’t it?”

We might be able to spend more time together, only making my need for her more consuming once break is over, and then how will I cope when I can barely see her again?

“Where are we going to go when the campus is closed down? My roommates haven’t decided if they’re going home for the holidays or not, and we can’t go to your house.”

“They should. I’m sure their poor parents miss them,” she says, dismissing my comment about her house.

Maybe. Or maybe their family is happy their messy children are finally gone—I know I’d be happy to have them gone for winter break.

“I can’t say. We don’t talk much. This is my first time living with them, and it’s been an adjustment, to say the least.” We don’t talk about my roommates or her brother much because it only leads to how we’re stuck to meeting each other in the library or in a dark parking lot somewhere.

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