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“Good morning, study buddy,” a voice that is way too fucking Julie Andrews-like chirps.
Only Julie Andrews didn’t have that deep baritone, did she?
I groan and pull the covers back up over my head. Who the hell is waking me up at this god-awful hour and why do they seem so sadistically pleased about it?
“Wakey wakey, sleepy head!”
“Unghr.”
“I’m sorry, sunshine, I didn’t quite catch that.”
“Go’way!” Fuck off! I internally scream.
“Sorry, no can do, buttercup. Suck it up and show me those pretty little peepers.”
“Who the fuck says peepers?”
“Jeepers, creepers, where’d you get those peepers?”
“Please stop singing…if that’s what you’re trying to do. It’s too early and it’s too…darn painful.”
“Who says ‘darn’?”
Realising that my room intruder probably isn’t going to go away, I prise open my eyelids and blink half a dozen times to unstick them.
“Bhodi?” I gasp. “What are you doing in my room? How did you get in?”
“Your door wasn’t locked. I’m here to take you to class, remember?”
Shit. Was that today? When did I agree to go back? Must have been a moment of madness when I was feeling brave or stupid or something.
“Come on, little dot. Time to rise and shine.”
“Wait, what? My door was unlocked?” My panic rises, thinking of Summer’s warnings about the murders and the missing girls, and I cringe remembering how I joked about it with Bhodi.
“Yeah. Wasn’t even fully closed either. You’re lucky it was me creeping in, and not someone less good looking. Imagine having to wake up first thing to someone ugly.”
He laughs and whips back the covers. I yelp and scramble to cover myself up, but it’s no use, he’s pulled the duvet clean off the bed and my robe is hanging on my bathroom door.
Fuck.
In my crop top and pants I make a mad dash for the bathroom, slamming the door behind me and blocking out Bhodi’s raucous laughter.
Oh my god. I hope the room doesn’t still smell of almost-sex. Oh my double god, I almost had sex last night, and I didn’t have a panic attack about it!
I’ll kill Summer for interrupting when she did.
When I feel human again, I emerge from my bathroom in my robe. Bhodi is bouncing on my bed in the exact spot where Cove and I… My face burns with embarrassment.
He’s turned on my music and is blasting Nickleback’s ‘How You Remind Me’ through the speakers, which I’m sure my neighbours will love at whatever ungodly hour this is.
“Isn’t it a little early for class?” I ask, glancing at my bedside clock as I move around the room gathering my things for the day and turning down the volume. Bhodi grins at me and switches the track to ‘Numb Little Bug’, making me smile.
“I thought I’d treat you to breakfast first. Have to start the day right and get some meat back on your bones.”
I nod at him as I return to the bathroom, but once the door is closed I frown at his comment. I have lost weight, but I don’t know how he knows that. He said we have a class together but that his attendance has been poor. So how would he notice my weight? Why would he care?
Is there more to our acquaintance than he’s telling me?
