#Chapter 45: Taboo

Audrey & Edwin Audrey’s POV By the time class was over, my skin was practically vibrating with nerves. I took my time packing up my things, waiting until the last student had left the room before I approached the podium where Edwin was waiting. “You wanted to speak with me?” I asked, stopping a respectful few feet away and clutching my books to my chest. Edwin glanced up from his papers on the podium for a moment and shot me a glance down the bridge of his nose. “Do you see now why I warned you against dating that boy?” he asked, his pen scratching across the paper. My mouth fell open of its own accord. Was this really what Edwin wanted to talk about? Again? “What do you mean?” I finally managed after several beats of silence. Sighing, Edwin shut the folder he had open on the podium and stuffed it into his briefcase. “You think you’re safe from it,” he said, “but even as a teaching assistant, you run the risk of creating drama by dating students in