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.

the hell?!" she cried out, surging

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 that wracked her

My mouth hung

outfits had been utterly destroyed, shredded to pieces and strewn all about the studio

of leather were scattered across the floor, feathers floating lazily in the breeze

and smeared across every piece of fabric, and even the Mac computer that the school assigned to each studio space had been smashed

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

have time," I breathed, striding over to the window to inspect the glass. It hadn't been broken, but I knew for a fact that we

hand through my hair. "If we

the funding." Tina said. "We'll get funding if we pass the preliminary round,

parents gave me on this fabric!" Avis said, chucking the shreds of

pulling out my phone. "I have a scholarship that hasn't been disbursed yet. I'll email the scholarship office and see what they can do. In the meantime, let's

reded this funding it we were going to afford to make another

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Chapter 19

clipped sounds on the tile floor. Clutching the folder containing my scholarship application, I strode up to the desk

long ago, I had received word from the scholarship office that something was

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

the desk, I was met with the face of the professor who

my folder with a

file and flipped through it.

"Audrey Thatcher."

around on her computer for a moment before letting out

felt my stomach bottom out. "I-What?" I breathed, my eyes widening to twice their original size. "That