Chapter 33: An Opportunity

SCARLETT

I can hear Delia calling after me as I’m heading to the faculty hall but I pretend not to hear her, picking up my pace instead. I’m not mad at her, I know it’s not her fault, she was only trying to help but right now I just want to be alone.

I already had enough problems and now I just lost ten percent of the fucking peanut grades I was trying to improve. Maybe mom is right, I should just quit this school thing and take up a modelling career in her friends agency, at least no one would give me the kind of shit professor August is forcing down my throat.

I slip into a seat at the far end of the faculty hall, keeping my head down. If the Dean of the faculty didn’t make this faculty meeting compulsory for every member, I would have just been on my way home after Professor August’s class.

“Are you mad at me?” Delia comes into view, sinking into the seat beside me and putting her hands on mine. “I’m sorry.”

“Yeah, whatever,” I reply, pulling my hands away from under hers. Can she s