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Chapter 3 - The affair

​He got into a restaurant work as a dishwasher in his free time from the university. But still he had to study for his college as his grades were going down as he was not finding any time to study for due to his work. This was not a big problem in the beginning but as days passed he was not able to concentrate in his studies rather his grades started declining leaving him at the heights of his nerves. ​He was one of the topper of his high school but things were different here. Though he had into one of the biggest university and had intelligence like one of the greatest minds of the country. ​He could not say this to his family or Addison but to work harder until getting fucked up. However Karl was good in what he does but with empty pockets his life was just fucked up. Still he was trying hard but things were still harder in the west side. Due to this shitty life he finally turned to be an alcoholic and a womaniser with his life going down to hell and further. ​He was alone and separated himself from the south side. He had not picked up calls from his family or from Addison. Still Addison tried calling him and every time it was getting re directed to Karl's voicemail which he did not respond too. ​He was alone with a shit load of problems around him and on his head it was just his fucked up life going around again and again. He could not concentrate in his studies anymore and his grades were down. But that is when he fell in love with a professor who he thought was a student. He starts flirting with her without knowing that she is a professor, eventually he came to know that Courtney was a professor but still he was into her. Courtney was happy for this too. ​Though Karl's life was fucked to the core but still Courtney and Addison was the only hope in his shitty life. Still his grades were down though Courtney helped him with his English grades his grades were sucked in the other subjects mainly with his physics major which he needed the most for his future but was not able to cope up with the studies. ​With his pain in his head the relationship between Karl and Courtney was out eventually the whole school came to know this. According to the code of conduct of his university this was prohibited and so he was out the form provided by the college and was suspended. However Courtney took the blame on her voluntarily and so Karl can continue in the college but his room was taken from him and he had nowhere else to go. He got in with a drug peddler eventually for money and a place to live. Now Karl was changed into an alcoholic, womaniser and a drug peddler which tied the cops onto his back. Slowly these things started to spread as a word of mouth in the university making him one of the dangerous guys in the college and because of that the professors and the management were always on his back trying to fire him as soon as a complaint rising against him.