AN: WOW! I’m so excited that I can FINALLY share this with you all! I’ve
worked really hard on this for a really long time, but I haven’t worked on it
alone. I have so many thank you’s. First off, thank you to the #CSLB for letting
me be a part of your project. I definitely recommend that everyone goes and
reads all the fics, because they’re wonderful.
More thank yous! Thank you SO much to my amazing beta @spartanguard for your guidance and help on this work.
You helped shape this into what it is today and I’m so thankful that you
joined me on this journey! Also HAAAAVE to thank @cocohook38 for her
AMAZINGGGGGG artwork!!! I seriously cannot get over it and I’m OBSESSED. Please go ogle all of her amazing artwork. Seriously, do it.
Lastly, I have to thank some wonderful friends for their kindness,
encouragement, and all the fun I had during this project. Thank you to my
salt-shakers. You know who you are. I love you guys.
Anyway, here it is, hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you think!
The first time Emma
officially met him, Killian was sleeping (snoring, she might add) in Professor
Highly’s College Algebra class.
She was honestly
trying to pay attention. Really. Imaginary numbers fascinate her. But his
rhythmic snoring directly to her left was grating on her very thin patience.
“Psst. Hey! You!” She
whispered, slightly shaking his arm. He didn’t respond to her. She shook his
arm a bit more vigorously.
“Seriously?” She rolled her eyes, hoping the
professor at the lectern wouldn’t notice the disruption. She wasn’t trying to
get anyone in trouble. She just wanted him to shut the hell up and stop
snoring. She supposed there was an added benefit of keeping Professor Highly
from going on one of her now notorious rampages over slumbering students, but
Emma was more concerned with the little whistle that sounded at the end of
every exhalation. She considered leaving him alone and letting him get caught.
She had done her part in shaking him after all.
Still, she reasoned,
no one deserved Professor Highly’s infamous wrath. Giving a glance in either
direction for any unwanted audience, she kicked him (maybe harder than she
needed to).
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