11 - THE KING OF THE SCHOOL

LIAM

My heart pounded on the way back to the male dorms and my fingers were trembling, it felt like an earthquake was happening right beneath me because I was so unsteady.

My vision worsened because I couldn’t stop hitting my palm on my forehead, reliving the cringe moments I had back there with the first ‘real’ girl I’d talked to in weeks and thanks to my uncontrollable palm, I could barely see anything now without glasses but nothing—nothing at all—would make me put them back on… especially not when I had something grave waiting for me inside.

‘But… damn it, Liam, how could you have missed that? How could you let that happen?’

I slowed down and stopped at the only ancient water fountain in the school. It was sculpted as a ferocious wolf standing side by side with a witch, both spitting water out of their mouths, with the same vibe of two male lions preparing to fight over territory.

The fountain demarcated the males’ dorm from the females’ dorm and though the males’ dorm was at the