The moon goddess chose wrong: twice
Plenty of time to slip into the building, activate the rest of the glamour, and become the charming lecturer they all secretly wanted to impress.
The classroom smelled of dry erase markers and cheap coffee. I arrived exactly on time, dropping my bag softly onto the desk. Twenty three students looked up. Lily was already in the third row, her notebook open, her pen in her hand twisting eagerly. Her eyes moved to me and widened again. She recognised me and she was hiding her smile, a delighted smile she tried to hide by biting her lip, she was so naive that it didn’t even begin to cover it.