The professor's voice drones on as she explains plant reproduction to the class. Every now and then, she'll go to the chalkboard to draw some diagrams of donuts - multiplying, splitting and separating - to illustrate the lesson.
Andy replicates the drawings in her notebook with uncharacteristic devotion, obsessing with the roundness of her donut cells, to take off her mind from Trae and their "fishing expedition.” She mindlessly copies everything the professor scrawls on the board, without understanding a word that she says.
So that when her phone inside her bag vibrates on top of her lap, she jolts in her seat. She isn't so hung up that something will actually come up. All morning, she has been questioning herself if she is just being paranoid. Receiving a call so soon catches her off-g
