a sigh of relief when I noticed one of the guys from the basketball team sitting in the far corner of the room. I made my way toward him, and he tossed his hand in the air when he noticed me approaching.
“Mac, my man. Thank God. How are you?” he asked, and I slapped his hand before giving him a knuckle bump and sitting down next to him.
“I’m good. How are you, Harvey?” I asked, calling him by his last name.
“I was worried no one I knew would be in this class. You see the size of this thing?” He sounded overwhelmed and a little nervous.
“Did you just transfer in?” I asked because he hadn’t been in here until now. Or at least, I hadn’t seen him before.
“Yeah. Today’s the last day to drop and add. Another class of mine was not going to work if I wanted to play this season,” he explained, and I nodded along in complete understanding.
“Glad you’re in here. Let me know if you need any help,” I offered, and he actually looked a little relieved.
“Thanks. How does the professor teach in this thing?” he asked, still clearly bewildered by the size of the class. “Do they shout the entire time?”
“She wears a mic,” I explained.
Harvey leaned his head back and blew out a breath toward the tiled ceiling. “Ohh, that makes sense.”
“Excuse me.”
The familiar voice hit my ear like a two-by-four to the face, and I turned to see Hayley the devil standing there, staring down at the two of us.
You have got to be shitting me.
“Can I sit there?” She pointed at the open seat next to me, and before I could tell Harvey that I’d kill him if he said yes, he was standing up and letting her pass, staring at her ass as she walked by.
“Sure you don’t want to sit here?” He patted his lap, and she gave him the world’s fakest grin.
“I’m sure, basketball player. Baseball’s more my thing anyway.” She bit her lip, and Harvey clutched his heart like he was in pain.
“You wound me with your words,” he said.
I shot him a look that should have killed him on the spot but didn’t. He obviously didn’t know my and Hayley’s history, or he wouldn’t have gotten up for her.
“There are, like, a hundred other seats in this class. Why can’t you sit in one of them?” I snarled toward her as she sat down. Shifting my body away from hers, I practically leaned on Harvey’s shoulder like a love-struck teenage girl.
“Damn, bro.” Harvey laughed under his breath and gave me a slight shove.
“I want to sit near you.” She tried to sound sexy, but she was fucking annoying. A point I’d thought I’d made clear the night of the party.
“I’d rather you didn’t,” I said rudely. “I want nothing to do with you.”
Everything I’d told her the other night wasn’t because I was drunk or for any other reason she might have concocted in her head. I’d meant every word I said.
“Come on, Mac,” she said before putting her hand on my shoulder, and I glared at it. “Don’t be like that. I just got into this class, and imagine my surprise, seeing you here. It’s fate.”
“It’s fucked,” I spat. “Sorry, man.” I sat up straight and looked at Harvey before rising to my feet. “I gotta move since Satan here won’t.” I thumbed toward Hayley, who sat there with a shocked look on her face as I gathered my shit.
I refused to sit next to her for a single minute, let alone an entire sixty-minute class.
“Wait up,” Harvey said as he grabbed his backpack and followed me down to the middle of the auditorium, leaving Hayley alone in the back, where she could drown in her own misery for all I cared. “What was that all about? She’s hot as fuck.”
“So’s the Devil, and I’m pretty sure they’re related,” I said.
He busted out laughing right as our professor entered the lecture hall.
“What’s so funny? Anything you’d care to share with the class?” the professor asked through the microphone on her jacket, her voice booming throughout the theater.
Harvey started choking, smacking his chest, while I sat there, mortified that the teacher had called him out like that.
“Okay then, let’s get to it,” the professor said, moving on, and Harvey and I were quiet through the rest of the class.
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ac never called me last night, like he’d promised. And when I never responded to his shitty