(Clara)
I should have felt relieved……that was the logical reaction.
Ethan had asked for space.
Professor Hart had made it painfully clear that whatever existed between us needed to stop.
For the first time in months, there was distance between all of us.
Distance should have solved the problem.
Instead, everything somehow felt worse.
The day started badly and continued declining from there.
By lunchtime, I had already spilled coffee on my notes, forgotten about an assignment deadline, and nearly walked into a glass door because I wasn’t paying attention.
The glass door incident was particularly humiliating because three people witnessed it.
One of them laughed a lot,
Unfortunately, that person was Roxie.
“You almost died,” she stated between laughs.
“I walked into a door,” I r
