Chapter 16: Girl Talk

I get to my dorm room and hide the dress from Evie. If she saw this blue dress it would come with a set of more interrogation questions and I'm not in the mood to deal with it. Evie would flip if she saw this fancy blue dress. She'd have a heart attack if she knew it belonged to Professor Oakley's deceased wife, Stacey, and that I am going to wear it on a date with him.

Evie enters the room shortly after the blue dress has been hidden in my guitar case. Sneaking around with a professor and almost getting caught by President McIntyre, is exhausting. Lying to mom about who Blake really is is hard. I didn't ask to bump into Blake and make his papers go flying that day. I didn't expect our lips to touch and my heart to burst at his smile.

"Cora, how are you? I haven't seen you in ages. Are you avoiding me? Benjamin wanted me to give you a heads up that Dante may or may not ask you to be his girlfriend? Isn't that exciting?"

I wish I could tell her the truth that I could careless about Ben