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Between Two Doors

Author: Juno Sparks
last update publish date: 2026-10-03 13:25:35

LENA

I can't decide. So I throw myself back into the ordinary and let the days swallow me whole.

I don't text Julian back. I can't call him, can't risk a message that says more than it should - not when his apartment might be listening to every word meant only for him. If they bugged his walls, they could be bugging mine too, and the thought turns my own room into foreign territory. I catch myself scanning the smoke detector, the outlet by my desk, anything that might hide a lens or a wire, and
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  • Torn Between My Boyfriend & the Professor   The Position That Wasn't His

    The door opens. I register it the way you register a shift in pressure; the air rearranges itself around someone else's arrival. My thumb hovers over Sophie's message asking if everything is okay. The banner has been sitting on the glass for eleven minutes because I counted.Tyler drops his keys on the hook with one deliberate sound."Hey." He walks around the couch, stopping when he reaches my line of sight; I can feel him looking at me the way he does when he audits something, not watching so much as cataloging an inventory. "You okay?""Yeah." The word leaves me before I can measure the speed, hollow and clipped; I know Tyler caught the uneven timing the instant I let it go.I type back that I just left the library exhausted, adding that all is good, because those are the casual words Sophie expects to close the loop. My fingers feel detached, like someone handling the screen for the first time instead of the hundredth, but I press send anyway.Tyler sits down beside me on the cush

  • Torn Between My Boyfriend & the Professor   What We Can't Walk Back From

    The silence presses against my sternum, dense and heavy, and I realize I have been holding my breath waiting for Julian to say something that will release the lock. He does not; his palms rest open across the laminate while his attention stays fixed on me, and the quiet merely accumulates.I break first."So what do you want from me now?" The question comes out stripped of the careful framing I planned beforehand. "You told me what you did. What you used me for. So what is this, what are you asking?"Julian holds my stare, and something shifts behind his features with deliberate strain, like an operator choosing to shut down a circuit that has stayed hot for years."I want you to see the thing I built the fence to keep out," he says finally. "Not the version of me that grades papers at arm's length and never stays in an office with the door closed. That girl, four years ago - I told myself the rule existed because of her, and I let the rule become the whole personality. I want you to

  • Torn Between My Boyfriend & the Professor   HIS RULES

    LENAThe apartment smells like garlic before I even get the door open.I stand in the hallway for one full second with the strap digging into my collarbone, the logger inside the canvas wrapped tight in a wool scarf from the backseat. The scent hits my throat, and my mind runs the calculations before I take another step: Sophie is home, Sophie is cooking, and the lie I texted Tyler forty minutes ago is currently taking shape in real time.I push the door open.Sophie stands over the stove with a wooden spoon in her grip, her hair piled into that crooked knot she never pins properly. Oil snaps in the skillet as she glances back over one shoulder."You eat yet?""No," I say, and the word lands flat and even."I made too much again." She turns back to the heat, flicking oil off the edge of the spoon. "Sit down if you want some."I drop my bag near the sofa rather than carry it straight down the hall; ducking into the bedroom right away looks like an evasion, and Sophie always registers a

  • Torn Between My Boyfriend & the Professor   The Tracking Beacon

    LENALate afternoon light settles flat across the campus lawns, giving the brick paths a dull, rinsed gold that looks exposed. I walk without hurrying. My canvas bag hangs off one shoulder, and the weight of Tyler's keys knocks inside the pocket lining with every stride, cold metal dragging against my hip.Before I reach the fountain, I pull out my phone. I type one word.Tomorrow.I tap send.The screen lights up before I cross thirty feet of pavement.Confirmed. Same time.Julian speaks in clean borders. No extra warmth, no open questions, nothing that could convict either of us if someone else looked at the glass. I file his message away the same way I stored his face when I stepped out of the coffee shop: functional, bounded, impossible to trust yet.The faculty parking lot has already thinned out by five, leaving only scattered student beaters near the back chain link. I find my car by rote. The gray sedan Tyler helped me choose three years ago sits under the light pole, safe and

  • Torn Between My Boyfriend & the Professor   The Ring

    LENAThe sheets are wrong. That is the first thing I register before my mind catches up; the thread count is too high, the pillow feels too firm, and the faint scent of cedar mingles with a floral note that never belonged to my detergent. I lie motionless across the mattress, staring up until the details overhead sharpen into view. Pale yellow paint coats the plaster beneath heavy crown molding; this is not my apartment.I wake inside Tyler's childhood bedroom.Memory returns piece by piece, like waking from an involuntary dream that leaves a dull ache behind. I recall the dark drive out here after dinner, Tyler telling me to stay because the hour was late and his parents would welcome it; I said yes the way I say yes to everything lately, offering a practiced smile that moves my mouth without reaching anything deeper. I cannot recall the exact moment of consent. What I remember is failing to refuse; there is a distinct boundary between the two, and I have learned to occupy that hollo

  • Torn Between My Boyfriend & the Professor   Between Two Doors

    LENAI can't decide. So I throw myself back into the ordinary and let the days swallow me whole.I don't text Julian back. I can't call him, can't risk a message that says more than it should - not when his apartment might be listening to every word meant only for him. If they bugged his walls, they could be bugging mine too, and the thought turns my own room into foreign territory. I catch myself scanning the smoke detector, the outlet by my desk, anything that might hide a lens or a wire, and I hate how quickly my mind goes there now, how fluent I've become in suspicion. So I don't say his name out loud, not even to Sophie, not even to myself in the shower where I used to whisper it just to feel something steady. I don't let myself think about the sentence that's still glowing behind my eyes every time I close them, the one that turned his dead child into a line he's used before, a tool instead of a wound. I file it away in the same place I file everything else these days, the place

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