Going After Zane

Alex POV:

"No, mom, I won't be coming home for the break." I say for the third time into my phone as I make the twenty minutes walk to campus. To the department. To Zane Orion's office.

It is Friday and my mother all the way over in Boston has decided this crucial moment in time is the best time to call me and nag about our fragile mother daughter relationship.

"And I don't understand why?" She retorts over the phone. The same thing she has repeated for the last three times I have told her I would not be coming home for the break that is still at least a month away.

"Mom, I gotta go now. We will talk later." I say into the phone when the tall grey building of the creative writing department comes into view.

"Alexander! Don't you dare cut me off." My mother yells at me over the phone. Because of the distance between us, the yell doesn't carry as much weight. I could almost laugh.

"Okay. What were we talking about? Though I have to let you that you are making me late to my mentorin