INICIAR SESIÓNSEBASTIAN'S POV"Put your phone away."Eli whispered it without looking at me, his pen moving across his notebook, eyes fixed on the board at the front of the lecture hall.I put my phone away.Professor Daniels was halfway through something about post colonial narrative structures that I was making a genuine effort to follow and failing at completely because Eli was sitting beside me and his knee was exactly three inches from mine and I had been aware of exactly three inches for the past forty minutes."You are not listening." Eli whispered."I am listening." I whispered back."Four words in twenty minutes." He whispered, eyes still forward.I looked at my notebook.He was not wrong."The lecture is not that interesting." I whispered."Write it down anyway." He whispered.I picked up my pen and wrote two more words then put it back down and looked at the side of his face instead because that was considerably more interesting than anything Professor Daniels had said all morning.He ha
ELI'S POV"You are going to be late."Jasmine's voice came through my phone at eight forty seven as I stood in front of my mirror doing absolutely nothing useful."I am not going to be late." I replied."You have been standing in front of that mirror for eleven minutes." She noted."How do you know that?" I replied."Because I have been watching the front steps since eight thirty." She replied. "From the bench. With my coffee.""Jasmine." I warned."He is already there Eli." She breathed. "Eight fifty three and he is already there. Just standing there with his bag on his shoulder looking at his phone trying very hard to look like he is not waiting for you."I put my phone in my pocket and picked up my bag.**************************************************He was exactly where he said he would be.Front steps. Eight fifty three. Bag on his shoulder. Eyes finding mine the moment I came through the gate like he had been watching for exactly this specific angle of approach.I walked towa
ELI'S POV"So he actually said it?"Jasmine dropped her tray across from mine in the cafeteria and leaned forward with both elbows on the table, eyes wide, coffee completely forgotten beside her."Keep your voice down." I replied."I am keeping my voice down." She insisted. "Did he actually say it Eli? Out loud? In a corridor? Those exact words?""Those exact words." I confirmed.She sat back and picked up her coffee and looked at me over the rim with an expression sitting somewhere between I told you so and genuine emotional devastation on my behalf."And you told him to figure it out." She noted."Yes." I replied."To Sebastian Hale." She noted. "Who just told you he was in love with you. After being cleared by a university board. After getting Devon expelled. After everything." She paused. "You looked that man in the eye and told him to figure it out.""I also told him I had never hit anyone in my life." I replied. "And that he should draw his own conclusions from that."She set he
ELI'S POV"So he actually said it?"Jasmine dropped her tray across from mine in the cafeteria and leaned forward with both elbows on the table, eyes wide, coffee completely forgotten beside her."Keep your voice down." I replied."I am keeping my voice down." She insisted. "Did he actually say it Eli? Out loud? In a corridor? Those exact words?""Those exact words." I confirmed.She sat back and picked up her coffee and looked at me over the rim with an expression sitting somewhere between I told you so and genuine emotional devastation on my behalf."And you told him to figure it out." She noted."Yes." I replied."To Sebastian Hale." She noted. "Who just told you he was in love with you. After being cleared by a university board. After getting Devon expelled. After everything." She paused. "You looked that man in the eye and told him to figure it out.""I also told him I had never hit anyone in my life." I replied. "And that he should draw his own conclusions from that."She set he
SEBASTIAN'S POV"Walk me to my next lecture."Those were the last words Eli spoke to me in that corridor. I walked beside him across the entire campus with his shoulder occasionally brushing mine, neither of us speaking. Best and worst twenty minutes of my life simultaneously.He turned left at the literature building door, pulled it open, looked back at me once.Not a long look. Just a second. Just enough.Then he went inside and the door closed and I stood on the path for approximately thirty seconds before turning around and walking home.**************************************************"She knows."Bianca stood at the bottom of the stairs when I walked through the front door. Those two words hit me before I even closed it properly.I stopped. "What?""Your mother." Her eyes were wide. "She knows Sebastian. Not suspects. Knows." She stepped closer, voice dropping immediately. "Mrs Carter called twenty minutes ago. The board decision went through the university official system, so
ELI'S POV"How long has he been in there?"Jasmine dropped onto the bench beside me and looked at the closed boardroom door and then looked at my hand resting on my knee.Her eyes narrowed. "Your knuckles.""I am fine." I muttered."They are swollen Eli." She leaned closer."Jasmine.""Who did you hit." She turned fully toward me. Already knowing. Just waiting.I said nothing.She looked at the closed door. Then back at me."Devon." She breathed."He shoved Sebastian first." I muttered.She exhaled slowly through her nose and folded her arms across her chest and sat back against the wall."In front of people?""Approximately thirty." I muttered."Eli Brooks." She observed."I know." I muttered."You have never hit anybody in your entire life." Her voice dropped. "Not once. Not even when Jayden..." She stopped herself. Looked at the floor briefly then back at me. "Not even then."I said nothing to that.She looked at my hand again. Then back at the door. Her fingers drummed once agains
SEBASTIAN'S POVAnother drink was definitely going to drive me crazy but I didn't care, I poured myself just another glass of whiskey and gulped it down all at once. I didn't care about the burning sensation in my throat all I cared about was this ache that just would not stop. Fuck! I had been dr
ELI'S POV The hearing ended just the way Selena Hales and her golden son wanted. He was free from any kind of bully accusation (he had never bullied me anyway so, it kinda of fair.) I had left the moment the so called punishment had been given to him and I could hear dad calling after me the mome
Sebastian's POV“I would like to know what exactly is going on. Bully among my son's? Impossible!” Mother announced, her eyes blazing with fire as she stared at me. It was the worst doom that could befall me, my mom coming to my rescue. How did she even know where to have found me? I knew I told h
ELI'S POV. It was foolish to think I had him trapped down for good, yeah everyone of us thought the was the end for Sebastain - I did, you did, the Disciplinary Committe did and I could swear Sebastain thought it was over for him too. But that the thing with the rich kids, they never get trapped







