Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

At 7:30 AM, Roseanne arrived at the lab.

The others hadn't shown up yet when suddenly, there was some noise coming from the lounge.

Accompanied by footsteps, Owen emerged from inside.

Their eyes met, and both paused, taken aback.

Owen thought back to his hasty exit the day before, feeling slightly awkward.

Roseanne remembered her pretend sleep and the scene she had caught a glimpse of...

She also felt uncomfortable.

"Morning," the man broke the silence.

Roseanne nodded slightly, "Morning."

After that, she quickly moved to her workbench and started to busy herself with her tasks, even forgetting to put her lunch in the fridge.

Owen mentioned, "I'm heading to the break room. I can put that in the fridge for you."

Roseanne replied with a brief, "Thanks, Professor."

When lunchtime came, Roseanne left the lab.

As soon as she stepped outside, she saw Corley, hands in his pockets, standing not too far away.

top buttons undone, paired with dress pants. It didn't look bad at all; in fact,

you

responded, "Just got

"What's up with

handed it over, "This is the final exam Mr. Olson set for his class. He couldn't be bothered to do it himself, asked me to work through it and come up with an answer key for his grad students to use for

getting dumped

wasn't the worst

finished the questions and the answer key. When I gave it to him, he actually said he wasn't confident in it and wanted you to check it over to make sure

was clearly mooching

the problem

was too clever by

"Can't you check

moment, Hans

busy with experiments and papers and probably didn't have the

QUMS

heart, suddenly insisted,

added, "You're so busy, I'll take it to

We have the electronic version; just email it

"That won't do."

"Why not?"

communication can't compare

What do they need

I'll personally deliver it

he picked up the

was left puzzled, "What's with him today?