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How is your course introduction week going?
Not so great.
Grandfather Peterson
Oh no. (sad emoji)
Don’t worry if it takes you a while to adjust to teaching. You’ve got time.
That’s not the problem.
There’s a student that needs to be removed from my course. Immediately.
Grandfather Peterson
Which one?
Genevieve Edwards.
He calls instead of responding to my text.
“She didn’t miss your class today, did she?” He doesn’t give me a chance to say hello. “She had more than enough time to get there.”
“No, that’s not it.”
“Oh. Well, what’s the problem?”
“I don’t want her in my class.”
“Um, okay…What’s the reason?”
“I just don’t want her here.”
“Ah, I see.” There’s a smile in his voice. “She’s intimidating you with her brilliant mind, isn’t she?”
“Sure.” I’ll say whatever it takes. “How do I get rid of her?”
“You’re teaching a required specialty course, Liam,” he says. “You can’t. Her latest indiscretion aside, Miss Edwards is a gem.”
“So, I have no authority in my own classroom?”
“You’ll love having her there by the end of the semester,” he says, laughing like this shit is a joke. “Trust me. When she’s focused, she’s the most mature student on this campus.”
8
GENEVIEVE
Hours later
“Fuckkkk youuuu!” I throw up my middle finger at the updated syllabus as if it can talk back to me. “You were better in your original form, and I hope you know that.”
Professor Asshat has obliterated most of the things I was looking forward to discussing, and he clearly has a vendetta against romance because he’s reframed the discussions about those stories.
Too upset to think about it, I stuff the printout into my bag and head to my dorm. As I’m walking, I open my phone’s browser and search for “You are who you choose to be.”
Hundreds of quote images instantly appear. For some reason, most of them feature a drawing of a tall robot with a young boy, and the quote is credited to an animated film titledThe Iron Giant.
I knew it!
