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Weekly Contest #342
I get to class first; I always get to class first, compelled by some unknowable force that makes it absolutely unbearable for me to be anywhere that isn’t also where Alice is. I pretend I have some sort of compulsion to be places exceedingly early so she has no reason to believe that my decisions have anything to do with her. I like the 15 minutes before class to read, I told her once. And since then, she will always walk in with a sensible 5-3 minutes to spare and find me reading a book. I have to stay faithful to the vision I once painted ...
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