Twenty-Four

Over the week of Amira’s freedom, she feels she has been transported back to her high school days of sneaking around the school and hooking up.

Except she doesn’t remember any of those things involving the teachers, yet here she was stealing kisses after class and the occasional closet hook-up to energize the batteries with her college professor, always leaving her wanting much more. It’s been hard for Amira to come home and keep up the act that she is still upset over not seeing Calix when her cheeks are usually still flushed by the time her parents pick her up.

After what feels like a surreal dream of a week, the long-awaited dinner with Evander has come, but rather than sitting alongside him probably eating delicious food, she is sitting at home under the watchful eyes of her parents and the boredom of her bedroom.

This leaves her with nothing more to do than work on her weekly assignments and think back on her eventful week with Calix. She pop