Crushing On The Billionaire (Part 2) by Lola Silverman

Author:Lola Silverman [Silverman, Lola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-15T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Thoughts of Shawn plagued me, asleep and awake. Where was he staying? Was his car still in impound? How was he getting around the city? Had his case gone to trial yet?

I found myself searching his name on the Internet, hoping to glean some kernel of information I didn’t already know.

Things I already knew: He hated me. He wanted me to stop seeing Patrick. He wouldn’t be my friend until I stopped seeing Patrick. He hated me. Above all, he hated me, and he was burning his world down because of me.

I wanted something else, something else that would distract me from the way things were now.

Either Shawn really did have a good lawyer, or he hadn’t shown back up in court. The case remained under the radar of the media, and I was unable to learn anything else about my friend.

I should’ve probably stopped calling him my friend. He’d told me he wasn’t. That he didn’t want to be. So I should’ve stopped, for both of our sakes. Maybe I should cut the line, cut the net, cut the losses. I could develop other friendships, focus on other people on campus I usually didn’t pay much attention to in favor of hanging out with Shawn. Most of the different study focus areas were so cliquish that the fact that Shawn and I were even friends was something of an event on campus. A photography major and a fine art major? Never!

So I needed to be closer friends with my fellow photography majors. That should be easy enough. I would cultivate new contacts, new confidants. It would be simple…

…only it wouldn’t be. I could never forget about Shawn. If I hadn’t been friends with Shawn, I never would’ve so much as crossed paths with Patrick. But had Shawn really already served his purpose? Was he only supposed to be in my life to point the way toward my destiny, which was Patrick?

It felt like my brain had been scrambled after the tumult of the night I bailed Shawn out of jail. It was difficult to focus on anything, let alone schoolwork and my relationship with Patrick. I was trying to keep my distance a little from Patrick. Shawn had demanded that I not tell his father what had happened that night. Was this a secret I could keep?

My turmoil was affecting both my academic and my personal life. All of the members of my graduating class in photography were already well on their way to completing their senior projects, but I had yet to fully start mine. So much of it depended on Shawn’s cooperation, but he was barely in control of his own life, let alone a silly senior project. It was hard to devote the time and effort into caring about such an ephemeral, pointless thing when there were so many bigger things at stake.

But everything came into focus when my professor, Mercedes, pulled me aside after a photography class.

“Loren, I’m beginning to be concerned about your senior project,” she told me after the majority of my classmates had filed out.

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