Campus Tour

•.• Skylar •.•

“Mum, what are you talking about? Does Dad know about this?” I asked, pressing my lips into a thin line. I hated this.

I definitely did not like where this was headed.

“Honey, your dad and I have talked about this, and though he doesn’t appreciate that you’d be living with a boy, there’s nothing we can do right now,” she said.

I huffed, darting out my tongue to wet my bottom lip before running a hand through my hair.

“You both have connections. Hell, you could even buy a building close to campus,” I blurted, and I could hear Mum’s sigh — and Dad’s faint voice in the background. They really were going to do this to me?

“We want you to have the full school experience, and believe me, darling, it would get boring staying alone in a huge house.”

“Harper can move in with me.”

“We don’t know about that, Skylar. We’re not her parents,” Mum said, and I swallowed nothing. Okay, fair point.

“I could ask her mum. She loves me.”

“Sky…”

“Mum, I cannot stay with Jaxon for a semester,