“We’re free most days,” said Lou, looking up at me now. Jesus, those eyes! Dark blue eyes – they were quite extraordinary really. It was a shame about the rest of her look. Her hair was so dull. I assumed it was all the coloring and loads of split ends. I stifled a laugh – it struck me that I could be quite a b***h when I wanted to be!
“We’re doing Art and Design,” she continued. “We only have eight hours of lectures a week and we don’t really need to go to most of them.”
“Eight lectures!” Dave cried in mock outrage. “Bloody Hell, we have thirty five – and a lot of them are double or triple lab sessions.”
“We’re doing chemistry,” I pointed out to Lou. She smiled at me sweetly.
“Oh,” she said. “That’s really bad luck.” I noticed a twinkle in her eyes as she said it. And she was suppr
