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.She’d been due to attend her first class that morning.She tried to assure herself that she had gotten her days mixed up, that actually classes started the following day.Rummaging frantically through her backpack, she found her class schedule, and as she read it, the panic intensified and was joined by a sinking feeling in her stomach.Alex’s first class was that morning at ten.She was already an hour late for a two-hour class and had yet to shower and change.Looking back at her bed, she wanted nothing more than to hide beneath her duvet and wish her day away.But then as she looked at her bed, she saw the picture of her father smiling proudly beside it.He’d want Alex to do her best, not throw away such an amazing opportunity to study and learn.Begrudgingly, Alex grabbed her shower kit and headed for the communal bathroom.****With her hair still damp Alex pulled on some jeans and a T-shirt, hurriedly filling her backpack with anything she might need for her class.It was then that she noticed that Ashley was still nestled within her bed, oblivious of the day she was rapidly sleeping through.“Come on, lazybones!” Alex declared, her voice annoyingly loud and bright as she pulled the pink duvet off her roommate’s bed.The moment the duvet had been moved, Alex froze in shameful shock.Ashley was not alone in her bed.Brad was curled up beside her, completely naked.Panicked, Alex threw the cover back over them.“Sorry!” she mumbled, turning crimson.“Is it morning?” Ashley asked groggily, rubbing at her eyes.Brad hadn’t stirred.“Yeah, it’s like eleven.” Alex sighed.“I’m late for class.”“Don’t sweat it.First class doesn’t count.” Ashley smiled.Alex wasn’t sure if she agreed but didn’t have the time to argue about it.“Do you have class?” Alex asked.“Not ’til three.”“Lucky for you, then.”“Yep.” Ashley yawned and stretched.Alex hovered nervously at the end of the bed.She didn’t like the thought of entering her class so late.Everyone would look at her like she was some lazy, rebellious student.While that had been the persona she wanted to project at Woodsdale, it certainly wasn’t how she wanted to be seen at Princeton.“Tell them you got lost,” Ashley offered, noticing Alex’s troubled expression.“For over an hour?” Alex didn’t sound convinced.“Yeah, it’s a big campus, you’re new.I bet it happens loads.”“I hope you’re right.”“I’m always right, don’t worry,” Ashley joked.“Good luck with your class.”“Good luck with yours later.” Alex smiled.“We’ll regroup here this evening,” Ashley declared.“First I need to sneak Brad out of here.We aren’t supposed to have boys stay over, but where’s the fun in that?” she asked cheekily.“I wonder if he’d fit out the window?” Ashley mused while Alex headed out the door and into the corridor.****After easily locating her class, Alex paused outside, reconsidering the plausibility of her excuse that she’d gotten lost.She waited uneasily by the door, palms sweating as she contemplated her options.She knew that she had to go in; she was just terrified of all the eyes that would suddenly turn her way when she did.Finally, an invisible force seemed to propel Alex forward, and she was within the classroom before she had a chance to consider retreat.The classroom was immensely larger than any she had encountered at Woodsdale.Instead of individual desks, students sat in tiered rows, almost as if in a theater, with small, fold-out desks to work on.At the front of the room a middle-aged man in a camel-colored vest used a pointer to emphasize a point within the presentation he was showing.As the lights were dimmed for the presentation, it gave Alex a slight cloak as she entered the room.She could feel people’s eyes upon her as they turned to look and silently judge her tardiness.She forced herself to ignore them and focus solely on the spare seat she had spotted.Once she sat down, she relaxed a little, though still braced for the verbal beating that would surely be bestowed from her professor down below
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