Page 242 of A University of Betrayal

We just stared at each other for ten seconds, and a lot of things went through my mind. I had the feeling that he was feeling the same as me, but I hadn’t dared to do anything other than stare.

“I have to go,” I said and just left.

I could just slap myself in the face for that. Because I don’t know what his name is or when I’ll see him again!

Spring Nocturne

Angus MacRae

“I told you!”

Larissa paced back and forth in the kitchen while I carefully skimmed through all the pages again. I felt as if I had just read the beginning of a wonderful fairy tale. A girl who fell in love, had a philosophy that not everyone agreed with, and firmly believed that she could change something about the problems of her time.

Julian threw an apple to me and I raised my eyebrows in question.

“You haven’t eaten anything today.”

My expression changed to annoyed.

“I agree with him. Your stomach is humming like Lara’s motor.”

The motorcycle we’d saved up for together in order to pay off one of her exes. The motorcycle that had probably ended up in a junkyard in Blairville.

“It’s not,” I lied.

Larissa shook her head. “Trust me, wehearthat.”

I heard it too, felt it even. But somehow, I hadn’t gotten the chance, and now was the worst possible time to eat. I put the apple aside and earned a head shake from Julian. Julie was the only person present who didn’t judge me. And I thanked her inwardly for that.

I handed her the diary pages and let her skim through the entries again. We couldn’t miss anything.

Larissa continued. “What I wanted to say... She didn’t stop. Quite the opposite, she kept seeing him, talking to him about it, even to her witch friends.”

“And she fell in love with a DeLoughrey,” I sighed, perhaps a little too theatrically.

When I read the lines, my heart had melted.Yep,I admitted it. Romance novels were a new major part of my evening reading.

“Something tells me this could have caused a lot more drama,” Larissa said with concern in her voice.

“Why?” Julian asked, starting to cut open one of the apples.

“Why do you think? It’s obvious that she’s fallen in love with two guys, and one of them even wrote her a letter.”

“Alarik,” I replied to Larissa’s words.

“And she went looking for the other one,” I said with a grin. I could well imagine her wandering around the campus with his suit jacket in her hand.

“Maybe she gave it up. He was rarely around, anyway.”

Julian’s comments were really depressing, which I made him realize by rolling my eyes.

“What?” he laughed, unsure and amused at the same time, and removed the core of the apple with a knife.

Larissa sighed. “I actually think, this girl didn’t leave anything to chance. After all, she was so determined to think about a new order.”

“I just wonder who this mysterious DeLoughrey was,” I murmured in thought. I was definitely too attached to the love story, which had to continue somehow. “Gray eyes, she wrote.”

“I only know one male DeLoughrey – obviously excluding David and Nicolaj – who doesn’t have brown eyes, and that’s Bastien.”