~Emily's POV~
I’m the only girl in university whose dad insists on driving her to and from school every day like I’m on probation. Nobody from high school is in any of my courses but at least I can still talk to Andy at the end of the day. I think I might be turning him into an alcoholic. I tell him that I take shots with him but luckily water looks the same as vodka. It’s cute when he starts saying things like, ‘you make everything better’ and it makes my heart flutter. I’ve practically been in love with him for months now, but he has a girlfriend that is so wrong for him. They always fight so I talk him into drinking until he acts human again.

“It’s midnight.” He texted. I knew what was coming and my heart sank down my throat into my bile filled stomach.

“I know right.” I felt wide awake and wanted to keep talking to him all night.

“I finished my first assignment before the midnight deadline thanks to you.”

My heart fluttered again. I sighed and smiled widely but didn’t reply. I thought of him sitting at his computer desk laughing and reeking of vodka, his eyes glazed just a bit and after he stopped laughing he’d get a serious look on his face. He’d look at me with bedroom eyes and quickly kiss my top lip. My heart started pounding.

“Em?”

I’d been thinking of kissing him. “Yes?” I wrote.

“Thanks for always being here.” His words made me furrow my brow. I was always there, wasn’t I? Was I making myself too available?

“You’ve had a long day, time for bed?.” I smiled, still thinking of his kiss.

He typed five winking smile emoji’s in a row and the words, “Sweet dreams Em. Don’t think of me too much.”

I thought of nothing but him as I threw my text books back into my backpack, closed the laptop lid and bit my lip to bed.

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