Chapter 95 (2/2)

A group of professors from NYU came in, twenty minutes before closing, and sat in her section. It had to have bothered her a little, even though she didn’t say, that they were from NYU, since the university hasn’t accepted her yet. I’m sure they will, just not for this semester. She doesn’t want Ken to use his position at WCU to try to help her, but I believe he’s going to if they don’t take her for the winter semester. It would be pretty cool to have her on campus with me, even though we have different majors. During our sophomore year, a few of our classes will overlap since I’m going for early childhood education and she’s going for English.

I walk into the kitchen to check the time. It’s only eight. It’s sort of weird that the stove is our only clock in the entire apartment. We rely on our phones to tell us the time; I wonder how the clock business is handling that.

It would be so strange to live in a time when you have to walk into a building or the town square to check the clock. And what if it was wrong—you wouldn’t even know. If Hardin lived back then, I could see him having the wrong time on all his clocks just to mess with people.

I really need to tell Tessa that Hardin’s coming next weekend. I’ll tell her when she wakes up.

I will.

Really this time.

The kitchen is quiet; only the soft buzzing from the fridge is audible. The undecorated cake is still sitting on the counter, covered in Saran Wrap.

I wonder if Nora’s going to come back, or if whatever took her away last night will keep her today.

I look in the fridge for something to eat before I start getting ready for work.

Fuck!

Work.

I was supposed to be there at six today to cover Posey’s shift.

I rush to my room to grab my phone to call my boss. My foot catches on something hard and I stumble over it, and try to balance on one foot. Of course that doesn’t work, and my toes smash into the leg of my desk.

Dammit, it hurts.

I grab my foot and finally reach my phone. Of course it’s still dead.

Double dammit.

I’ll have to use Tessa’s phone to call work.