Chapter 505

Judy's POV

"You look as if you haven't slept in days," Nan points out as I join her in the coffee shop near the school campus. I felt gross; I didn't bother showering and knew I had dark circles under my eyes.

"I haven't," I admitted. "Not since my date with Gavin."

"You still haven't heard from him?"

I shook my head.

"I texted him last night after Matt left, but he hasn't even opened it. His phone's been off..." I told her.

"That's odd," she said. "Maybe you are right... Maybe something happened. Did you talk to Beta Taylor?"

"He won't tell me anything. He gets weird when I bring up Gavin," I told her, my heart pounding in my chest.

"Has Matthew said anything?"

I thought back to my conversation with Matt last night.

"He asked me if I still liked his father," I told her. "Like if we were still friends... then he mentioned something about his perception being wrong. He didn't get to finish his thought, though, because Taylor came to pick him up."

"I wonder what he meant by that," Nan said thoughtfully.

my hands trembling as I brought

to think. Is he ghosting me? Did he decide he wanted nothing to do with me during

I don't think that's the case," Nan said gently. "You didn't see the way he

blinked as I looked

with me?" I

She nodded.

It was a look I had never seen before, not even with Chester. Ethan had never looked at you like

bubbling inside of me, and I hated the feeling. I took another sip of the coffee and sighed as

it?" she told me. "We are graduating soon, Judy. This is huge. We have

had already secured a spot in the Elite Force because I had won the Gamma Competition, but having a degree would mean the world to me, and it would open the doors to

coffee shop, we walked to the campus. We spent some time studying in the student lounge before we had to go to our

there. I took my seat beside him and got my notes ready. He was trying hard to pretend I wasn't seated right next to him, which aggravated

don't exist," I told

he replied simply, his eyes fixed on his own notes as he prepared

was so worried about getting on Gavin's bad side, and Gavin probably wouldn't even notice if he did

stomach knotted at

the back burner and tried to make the most out of my class time. By the time class was

speak with you in her office," Professor

me.

my heart pounding

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