"Alright."
I turned away from Evan and stopped looking at him.
Panic flashed across his face, and he reached for me again. But one look from Julian froze him in place.
I turned to Julian.
"Call my mother for me," I said. "Tell her I'm fine. Tell her not to worry. But what happened here at school is something she should probably know about."
Julian nodded, pulled out his phone, and made the call.
The administrators' faces looked worse by the second.
The department chair rushed over.
"Miss Sutton, perhaps we can avoid involving your parents for now," he said carefully. "The university is fully capable of handling this matter internally."
"I never said you weren't going to handle it," I said, cutting him off. "Handle it however policy requires. Mr. Ellis's conduct. Vanessa bringing p
