One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Chapter 19 Audrey

"I can't wait to put the finishing touches on my pantsuit today. It's gonna look so great!"

"Me neither! I just need to make the hat for my top and skirt ensemble, and then I'm all done."

As Tina, Avis and I walked to our studio, the sound of their excited chatter brought a smile to my face. I sipped my coffee, feeling just as excited as they were; after all, we would be finished with our entries for th "We'll have to celebrate when we're all finished, Tina suggested, our shoes clicking on the tiled floorways as we walked in tandem. "I need a drink

after all that work."

"Ugh. Me too." Avis audibly cracked her neck without missing a beat. "These past two weeks have felt like fabric hell. I need a cold beer, some nachos to share, and to dance the night away

Tina giggled. "What about you, Audrey?"

I offered my

friends a smile and nodded as I fished our studio keys out of my pocket. "It's a date."

My smile faded, however, the moment the door creaked open.

There, in the center of the small studio space, were our three mannequins-

or at least, what used to be our mannequins. Not anymore, though. No, our three painstaking outfits that we had tirelessly spent two weeks constructing had been..

Destroyed.

Avis was the first to react. She let out a small squeak of shock, dropping her coffee to the floor. The milky liquid splashed across the tiles, soaking our shoes, but none of us noticed.

hand to her lips. "What the hell?!" she cried out, surging forward

them Avis sobbed, already full-on crying. She fell to her knees next to her mannequin, where her adorable pantsuit had been shredded practically down to its fibers. Clutching the torn pieces in her hands, she let out a sob

was completely frozen in my tracks. My mouth hung open as I took in the

strewn all about the studio as if a rabid cat had gotten into

across the floor, feathers floating lazily in

of fabric, and even the Mac computer that the school assigned to each studio space had been

we worked over the past two weeks had been turned into a warzone. "Audrey, Audrey!" The sound of Tina's voice snapped me out of my daze, and I blinked to see her and Avis standing in the middle of the room Tina's face was bright red with fury and Avis's

knew for a fact that we had closed

said, running a hand through my hair. "If we hurry, then we can still submit something

the funding." Tina said. "We'll get funding if we pass the preliminary round, but until then, we're on

I already spent the entire allowance my parents gave me on this fabric!" Avis said, chucking the

office and see what they can do. In the meantime, let's c Tina nodded and quickly pulled out her phone, scurrying over to the corner to make the

to afford to make

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Chapter 19

strode into the scholarship office, my heels leaving clipped sounds on the tile floor. Clutching the folder containing my scholarship application, I strode up to the desk with my

word from the scholarship office that something

needed to submit everything again. It was a drag, but I still managed to scrape my files together

desk, I was met with the face of the professor who had given me that envelope in

with a terse smile. "I called

Yes. The professor took my file and flipped

"Audrey Thatcher."

for a moment before letting out a huff and slid my

I breathed, my eyes widening to twice their original size. "That can't be