New York City…
Avery's pov:
Today I am going back to campus . I have a history lecture this morning with the rest of my class and then a tutoring session with Professor Gary.
For once I am not running late , I even have time to have my breakfast so I go to the kitchen and make some baked oats , my go to breakfast.
Sheila is as usual not at the apartment, she goes to campus pretty early everyday to meet up with her boyfriend to do i don't know what and I don't want to think about it *shivers .
As I am eating my meal I get a call and I wasn't planning on answering because it's too early for me to start socializing but then I see it is Eric calling and so of course I am going to answer.
"Hello" I answer and put my phone on speaker mode and leave it on the table.
"Good morning to you pretty . How was your night? Didn't miss me too much?" I roll my eyes at him and chuckle .
"Not at all actually , I had almost forgotten I saw you yesterday." I laugh as I tease him back.
"Anyways , do you have class this morning?" He asks.
"Yes I do actually in a few minutes" I stand up from my seat to put my bowl in the sink and go back to the table , "why do you ask?"
"I am also heading to my campus and thought I could give you a ride there since it's on my way, plus I might want to also spend the first few minutes of my day with a special someone" I could almost see him smirking behind the phone at his own statement. Men.
"Sure , just give me 15minutes to finish getting ready then we'll go. I'll meet you downstairs, just text me when you arrive. Pretty sure you didn't forget where I live , right? *laugh"
"Of course not , how could I forget where my future boo lives? Huh? That would be -100 points for me" he then laughs .
"You are silly" I start,
"I am your silly" he replies , I humph and tell him good bye and we hung up.
Now off to the shower.
Eric texts me that he is waiting , I ran out of the door with my sweater halfway put properly, yes I ran late , I got distracted okay .
Anyways I reach him and see he is wearing a casual outfit ; black jeans , a white t-shirt and leather jacket , okay maybe not that casual if we count the leather part . Dressed to impress I guess .*chuckle.
"What's funny?" He asks as he opens the car door for me.
"I thought you were just going to campus? What's the leather jacket for ?" He looks at me and does that brow lift he knows annoys me so much ,
"Well let's just say I wanted to look good for a certain someone , who is now teasing me for trying" I shake my head and tap his shoulder ,
"Okay I am sorry , You look nice though , nice collarbones"
"Really? my collarbones? Come on Avery at least say something about my symmetrical face structure and how my mustache grew" I roll my eyes at him and say "Just drive already or else we will officially be late because of you exercising your narcissism " , "Meany." he says and sticks his tongue out at me , childish.
After a very short drive with some music playing in the car we arrive at my campus.
As usual Eric opens the door for me and I step out .
"Here you go my lady , have a good study day and don't think of me too much okay?" He says very loudly and hugs me tight while patting my head with a grin on his face , when I turn around I see some students looking at us like we are crazy.
I push at his chest and look at him with my attempted murderous look .
"What exactly are you doing? You are embarrassing not only me but you too , dumbass" he smiles and leans in my ear "That is for not acknowledging my efforts to please you . You are welcome though, now you will be extremely well known here" he winks and drives away before I can pull on his ears. I will get him sooner or later . Dumbass. *chuckle .
After quite the run I made it on time to my history lecture . Professor Gary is currently on the topic on the Greek era and birth of Iron Age and how they shaped our world of today . You may be wondering why he is not teaching about Alba , well he decided to leave it all up to us , we are to do the necessary research to fully comprehend that kingdom and era it was in and of course we are still writing the essay for that class to account for our researching time. I guess he figured that teaching us the whole thing then asking us to do research about it and on top of that write an essay for it would be too easy because he would have handed us the information easily , he wants us to really put in the work hence him deciding to skip that part and let us do our thing. Smart . This is unfortunate for many in my class but advantageous for me because I've been to Alba and will continue going there so I will basically be living all that live . If that is not luck I don't know what is.
"Okay , so remember class , read the pamphlets I gave you and come back next time with an idea of the major points to be discussed . That's all for today , you may exit my class now" Professor Gary says as he sighs , sometimes I really think he hates it here *chuckle.
After everyone had left I walked up to professor Gary's desk to start the tutoring session. I just want to get it it done with so I can go meet up with Sheila afterwards, girl's night kinda of thing.
"Avery concentrate" the professor tells me,
"I am concentrated" I reply . Okay maybe I zoned out for a bit , not my fault , tonight's hang out won't be just me and Sheila , she is inviting other girls from our campus over . Not that I am scared of the social setting but I just don't like strangers coming over at our place and causing a mess that we will have to clean on our own. Yes I am a control freak, what about it?
"Right" he replies without really meaning it.
Then he asks "How is the research work on Alba going? Not too hard?"
I shake my head "No , it's actually going pretty well . I am gathering really helpful information and I am confident my essay will project that " That's for sure considering I am getting it first hand.
He nods and continues his lesson.
I don't dare ask him about the situation with his ex-wife even if I am very curious , all because I respect Sheila too much and I don't want to make her look like an immature girl who tells her friend everything and who can't keep her relationship details to herself plus I am sure it would be awkward for me to ask my professor that. Yeah I am definitely keeping my mouth shut.
The lecture ends after 2 hours of non stop exchange and I head to the store to get some drinks for the girls .
This is gonna be a long as night, lord have mercy.