Del
Jaia doesn’t notice something is wrong even though she does look apologetic about bringing her date with us. She knows I don’t go out with students, especially not with ones in my class, she’s the only exception and only because we are friends. All kinds of misunderstandings might occur otherwise and I do have a name to keep. But it’s worse because this is Dzhan Aslan and even if he weren’t a student, I should stay hundreds of miles away from him. Thousands. We should be on different planets me and him.
A little sideways smirk appears on his full lips as I approach them, my head raised high as I struggle to keep my composure so that nobody notices how I am trembling on the inside. I nod coldly at him and my eyes narrow at Jaia who only smiles at me.
“We just bumped into each other,”
