THROUGH HER LENS

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ersity parking lot, catching on polished windscreens and casting long s

Faculty building. She turned off the engine and sat for a moment, fingers resting on the steering wheel. The fain

books, pens, and-buried beneath a scarf-her camera. She always brought it along – not out of habit, not even out of need. She hadn

cheeks and turned exhaled breath into soft clouds. Maya stepped out and sh

AAAA

a wildly mismatched outfit-an oversized mustard sweater over a plaid mini skirt, chunky boots stomping with

ut with no less energy, pulling a coffee flask

mured with a smile

argue a murder trial?" Ava demanded, t

ng into a courtroom-eventual

her flask at Ava. "She's alread

. "No one is allowed to

rd the main entrance of the building. Students milled around them in all direction

t the brutalist block of concrete and glass. "You'd think a prestig

aya said. "No

tered. "Loves structure

nyway," Cha

ter judgment,"

HALL –

alls were a dull beige, and the tiered seats rose steeply toward the back. At the front, Professor R.A. Cartwright, an olde

eft, Maya to her right. Maya pulled out her notepad, clicked her pen t

ipped into the room a few minutes late. No one paid much attent

here

ey'd deliberately defied a comb. He scanned the room with quick, searching eyes, holding a black backpack

from his notes. "Close the door quietly, pl

or a seat. His eyes flicked up toward their row. For

just walked into the lecture hall. She then tapped Ava t

red suddenly, nudging he

? W

irl, your eyes have not m

why he's late," Maya

. That or he's the mysterious brooding type. You k

d gasp. "He looks like a

ond, a voice called ou

er here

nfident, and always in the middle of every

ef nod, and made his way to

already wandered. There was something about him-something quiet and collecte

rlotte raised a brow and whispered: "T

her gaze on the board. She couldn't afford distractions. Not over some boy with sharp eyes and

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s filtered out into the hallway. Their third lecture of the day had finally ended.

cure insomnia," Ava mutt

entered a different dimensi

y who had walked in late. He didn't belong, yet somehow... did. There was something ab

retched like a cat. "Alright, I'm headed to Charlot

afe," Ma

"I'm chaos, n

ey climbed into Charlotte's car, their la

!" Charlotte shouted throu

" Maya called

a added with a teasing smirk before blowing a

the lot with a screech

ntly at her coat sleeves. She walked slowly, mind half-focused on her evening plans-just reading, maybe reheating the jollo

She sat there a moment, gathering her thoughts. He

un

arp

agains

dropped li

od," she

d nudged the front bumper of a sleek, black BMW parked just a few feet behind her-clearl

eized h

into park and scrambl

she started to say,

rds froze

driver door opened

steppe

t, everythi