Ella
That night, I didn’t know how I managed to avoid both Aidan and Nikolai in our shared dorm room. The tension in the air was so thick that it felt like I was trying to breathe underwater.
I spent most of the evening pretending to read a book, though the words on the page didn’t make any sense. My heart raced every time I heard one of them move. Nikolai, calm and collected, sat on his bed, flipping through a magazine. Aidan, on the other hand, seemed restless. He paced back and forth, occasionally throwing glances in my direction.
"Relax, Aidan," Nikolai said at one point, not even looking up from his magazine. "You’re making the room feel smaller than it already is."
Aidan huffed but stopped pacing. Instead, he dropped onto his bed, leaning back with an exaggerated sigh. "I’
