Chapter 217

"Lance, what's with that tone?" One of the girls snapped, clearly ticked off by his comment. Lance Graham was their class president, and since there weren't many guys in the literature department to begin with—add in his clean looks and quiet bookish vibe—he had always been pretty popular with the girls. He just didn't sugarcoat his words this time, and it set off a girl who had already been annoyed. "Come on, we're all classmates here. Let's keep it chill—Lance didn't say anything that harsh." Seeing the tension about to explode, a guy from their class quickly tried to smooth things over. "I just think it's kinda unfair for Tina Harris, that's all. She could've been living it up in Europe with her parents right now—" "Drop it!" Tina snapped, tugging at the friend who spoke up first. "It's just a farmhouse stay, right? Lance already said we didn't really have a choice, so let's just deal with it." They were supposed to be experiencing country life. While most folks went for comfy and s