Summer stacked up her notebooks and textbooks and shoved them into her bag, then checked the time on her phone. Even though it was the first day of the summer astronomy course, the professor had used the entire class period, so Isaac should be turning up outside any time now.

Which was good, because she hadn’t had any idea that Jesse had also stayed over the summer until he’d walked into the lab. They’d both looked away immediately, but she could feel his attention fixed on her, and it made her jittery. The /last/ time they’d ended up in a freshman-level course together, he had told campus security that she was stalking him, which had been its own special kind of hell.

A few months after that he had apparently decided that turn-about was fair play, and begun to actually stalk her. Or maybe she’d just gotten more sensitive to his presence — he seemed to be everywhere she went. It had been such a relief to go away to the seaside with Isaac and not have that niggling worry in the back of her mind for a few days.

She went out to the steps of the science building and perched on one of the great blocks lining the steps, keeping an eye out for Isaac and his bike. She’d put a bike rack on her car last week, just for this sort of situation, although she might take up riding her bike to campus again soon.