News of Nicholas and his mystery girl canoodling under the stairs spread around campus at lightning speed. Some say that it was the girl who shamelessly threw herself at him. Others say that she was blackmailing him to do her bidding. There were also some people saying that she'd drug him into sleeping with her and was now having his baby.
Of course, every piece of gossip had Nicholas as the innocent party while the girl was the villainous witch. And of course, there was now a witch-hunt for the girl's identity.
My friends, who seldom showed him interest, were curious as well.
"Do you have any idea who it was?" Irene asked me.
Bent over my textbook, twirling a pen around my fingers, I answered, "Nope. No idea."
"It wasn't Autumn?" Joy piped in to ask as well.
"They ran into Autumn wh
