RYAN After the failed friend date, Simone had thankfully accepted my apology and we had rescheduled the “ date”, as we called it, but we had not decided on a definite day. After coming back to school, Killian had somehow tracked me down, asking why I had missed our art class. He had suspected it was my heat which he had not been far off from, but when he asked why I had not asked for him to help, it left us in an awkward spot. The conversation had kept circling back to that and his insistence on why I had not called him back ever since January. He had no idea that I had no knowledge of what he was referencing and Mel had jumped ship, not wanting to interact with him. I had been left to give him awkward answers and had managed to escape from his clutches by sheer luck. My parents had ca