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Raven: Three Months Earlier
Ben grabbedmy hand and pulled me down onto the couch next to him. I snuggled in, enjoying the fact that we didn’t have to hide our relationship anymore.
The common room was crowded tonight. Classes started back up tomorrow and everyone who had left campus to go visit family was back at school.
A few of the shifters raised their eyebrows at the sight of me and Ben snuggled up together but nobody questioned it. Most of them had figured it out long before we started showing affection in public.
“It was nice to go visit my family but I sure missed hanging out without any expectations,” Makayla said. She was stretched out across an entire couch and looked like she’d melted into the furniture.
“It was quiet here with you gone,” Ben said.
“Aren’t you sweet?” Makayla said with a grin.
“It was too quiet,” I said.
“See, I know who appreciates me,” she said.
“Schedules came out,” someone called. We all turned to look toward the stairs. Jamal waved a pile of papers in his hand. “Who wants one and what are you going to give me for it?”
Starla jumped up from her seat nearby. “I’ll take that challenge.” She growled and then charged Jamal.
He let out a surprised sound as she knocked him to the ground. The papers went flying.
Makayla got up faster than I thought possible and grabbed them off the ground.
“No fair, I wasn’t ready,” Jamal said.
“Want to try again?” Starla asked. “In my room?”
“Yes, I do,” he said.
Starla headed down the hall at a run and Jamal followed her. I heard the door slam behind them and knew they’d be there the rest of the night. Things seemed to be returning to normal. Nobody was worried about the thief or about the practice trials. And right now, the formal trials seemed so far away. Life was good.
Makayla stopped in front of me and held out a piece of paper. “Raven.”
I sat up and took the paper from her.
“Ben,” she said, holding up another sheet.
Ben lowered the arm that had been over my shoulders and reached for his schedule.
Makayla walked away, passing out the rest of the schedules. I looked down at mine and frowned. Gym first period. Yuck. Then Magical Theory, followed by Spellcasting. My brow furrowed when I read the next class.Independent Studywith Professor Halifax. What did that mean?
Hadn’t I spent enough time with her? I wondered if this was her way of making me continue working on controlling my time magic.
I looked over my remaining classes and noted that I’d been added to History of Magic instead of Training Your Familiar. I had been rubbish with the animals in that class anyway. Guess it was obvious to my professor.
“What do you have?” Ben asked, passing his schedule to me. We exchanged schedules and I quickly read through his.
“We have nothing together this semester,” I said. “But it looks like you got out of Magical Theory.”
“I hated that class but it was nice to see you during the day,” he said.
“Don’t worry,” I said, snuggling back against his chest, “you’ll get to see lots of me at night.”
He grabbed our schedules and set them on the table in front of us. Then he pulled me into him and pressed his lips to mine.
