Mate on thin ice
Another flash, quick and sourceless, Mable outside the Dean's office, her face doing that thing where she was trying not to cry and not quite succeeding, and me walking past without stopping.
I shook my head against the pillow.
"Yeah," I said. "Okay. Do it."
Lola made a small, satisfied sound and closed her eyes.
I did not sleep again.
By seven thirty I was up, showered, sitting on the edge of my bed with my phone in my hand scrolling through the campus group chat.
The post had gone up sometime after midnight.
I almost missed it in the noise of the usual morning chaos, memes and lecture complaints and someone asking if they had lost a water bottle in the library.
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