Aurora.The next morning should have felt like a victory.For nearly a week, Alec and Maxwell had been everywhere in my classes, outside my classes, walking beside me across campus, appearing out of thin air whenever I least expected them. It had been irritating. Exhausting. Completely unreasonable.Yesterday, I finally took action. I told them to leave me alone.So when I arrived on campus and neither of them appeared, the silence should have been a relief. Instead, it felt... off. Suspiciously disappointing.I noticed it during my first class. Not because I missed them, that would have been ridiculous, but because every time the door opened, my eyes flicked toward it. By the third glance, I was annoyed with myself. By the sixth, I was annoyed with the entire world. The student who finally walked in wasn’t Alec. He wasn’t carrying a book. And somehow that felt personally offensive.When class ended, I packed my bag and stepped into the hallway. No Maxwell. No Alec. No suspiciously w
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