“Do you think you could look over one of my essays? I’m really struggling.”
Ah! That made more sense! He needed something from her! Relaxing now that she understood his motivation, she nodded and opened the Jeep’s door. “Yes. I can definitely read it. E-mail it to me and I’ll read it today.”
“How about if you read it with me during lunch? I’ll buy you lunch, to pay you back, and we can sit and go through it together.”
She considered his request for a long moment. Was she setting herself up? Dismissing that because, well, there was no way to anticipate what Ryan might do, she nodded instead. “Fine. I’ll see you at lunch today.”
With that, she slipped out of the Jeep. “See ya,” she said before slamming the door and hurrying over to her friends. All three of them leaned in, ready to demand answers as to why she was in the Jeep with the high school heartthrob.
Relieved now that she had an explanation, Cynthia shrugged off their curiosity, able to dismiss the conjecture. “He just needs help with an essay. He gave me a ride to sweet talk me into it. I’m going to read it over during lunch and offer him some suggestions. That’s all there is to it,” she told her friends flatly. Deflated, they stopped questioning her. But before she walked into her first class, she rushed into the bathroom and dumped the coffee out into the bathroom sink, watching the liquid swirl down the drain.
“Huh! No bug. No spider. Nothing,” she muttered in surprise, staring at the porcelain sink as if she couldn’t believe nothing weird had been added. Cynthia even looked inside, just in case there was a live bug clinging to the metal sides. Nothing. Huh!
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