Xavier gazed at Clare’s open notebook, slowly tracing her writing with his finger. He found himself grinning at her cute, messy writing with all its color coding and doodles. He could tell she was quite studious from her notes, although the scholarship thing made it a no-brainer.
Shaking his head, Xavier tried to focus on the task at hand. He was making ‘notes’ so tomorrow he would have an excuse to give Clare her notebook back in between classes. Maybe grab lunch with her too?
Would that be too fast? Xavier wondered. Rose said to treat this like a human mate thing but she knows how the mate thing works. Argggh, why does this have to be so complicated?!
Xavier sighed in frustration, deciding to deal with the problem later. For now he would just treat her like a studying friend until she
