LARA’S POV
“If there are always instances where I am absent because of my auntie and refuse to do something about it, why does the university still accept me every time I return?” I ask Zion after eating half the slice of the orange he peeled for me.
He has been visiting me almost every day of the past week now, bringing me all kinds of food that we both eat during his stay. As much I tell him that he does not need to—both come here and bring anything—but he insists and still makes time. He comes here every after his classes despite how hectic or how open our schedule is. I said “our” schedule because he is still my classmate and I am his. We still have the same supposed schedules.
He also told me that he already informed our professors, even our department dean, about my situa
