Extra Credit by Erin Bilton-Hayes

Author:Erin Bilton-Hayes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: college m/m romance, m/m romance, friends to lovers m/m, lgbt romance
Publisher: Erin Bilton-Hayes
Published: 2021-07-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7.

William got up earlier than usual, moving quietly around the kitchen, hoping he might be able to get out of the apartment before Tyler woke. He felt guilty, like Tyler would be able to see inside his head, see the image of him stretching above William which was burned inside his eyelids. The thing was, William had fallen asleep almost immediately after coming and felt perfectly refreshed, despite knowing he was probably setting himself up for some sort of terrible heartbreak down the line. He just didn’t want to look Tyler in the eye.

He was congratulating himself on pulling an undetected exit off, had arrived at work and was making his fourth cup of coffee in the pokey little staff kitchen, when he had his first encounter with another person that day.

“Hey” said Stacey, ambling in, a tote stuffed with books and a laptop slung over her shoulder. She looked him up and down, then narrowed her eyes. “Did you make it home last night?”

“Uh. Yes?”

“Isn’t that the same outfit you were wearing yesterday?”

William dimly recalled pulling a sweater off his floor and jeans off his chair this morning, trying to get dressed as quickly as possible. “Maybe? All my clothes are black, it’s hard to tell.”

“What’s his name?” Stacey continued, positively gleeful.

“I didn’t go home with anyone, I just overslept!” William protested.

“You’re half an hour early”, Stacey pointed out, “and a terrible liar. Let me know how the second date goes.” She fished milk out of the fridge, waiting at William’s elbow to grab the coffee pot after he was finished with it.

“Did you get all the extra exams marked?”, William tried to change the subject.

“Yep. I get at least a week of needling you about this one though, I don’t think I’ve ever known you to have a crush before.”

“Well I don’t have one now”, William said curtly, his well-slept good mood disintegrating by the second, holding the coffee pot out of reach.

“Jeez, I’ll avoid teasing you before noon in future. How are your classes this week anyway?”

Mollified, William handed over the coffee pot. “Ok, I guess. No complaints about their grades, which is something.”

They settled back into a back and forth about the decrepit grade entry system which crashed at least twice a day during exam season, and William hoped he might make it through the rest of the day without any more prying into his solo dating life. It was a Friday, surely no one had the energy for that.

Five minutes before the end of his second class his phone buzzed in his pocket. William had been less absorbed by his phone than usual the last week, which was probably a good thing – and certainly an unexpected perk of having someone else around the house. He slid it out - his students were working in pairs, he figured he could get away with it without them noticing, and peeked at the screen.

“Romcom Sunday? Promise not to leave me out in the cold?” It was Gen.

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