Tuesday Tales - Word prompt "Harsh"

 

Welcome! This week, we are writing to the word prompt "harsh". I have another excerpt from my new story, which still doesn't have a name. It's a continuation from last week. Don't forget to read all the stories in Tuesday Tales. Find them HERE. 

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Charlie turned the car on and headed back to campus.

“You’re taking me back to school? Weren’t you heading home?”

“Yeah, so?”

“Very nice of you, Sis. Thanks,” Corey said.

When they arrived at the small apartment building for professors, he got out.

“Don’t forget about the dance,” he said.

“Yeah. Sure,” Charlie said and waved as she pulled away.

Corey put his garment in his closet and rushed out of the building. He went to the faculty lounge where his fiancée, Kitty Caldwell, would be. She was getting her Master’s in English and, as the daughter of the president, she was granted faculty lounge privileges. She’d spend the morning reading and studying in a comfortable leather wing chair in the corner of the large, book-lined study.

The room was a silent room – no talking. Corey burst in, hurried across the room, and grabbed Kitty by the hand.

“I have to talk to you,” he whispered.

“Shhh,” came from a chair across the room.

Kitty followed him into the corridor. “What is it? What’s so urgent?”

“I promised Charlie Professor Garrett would be chaperoning the dance.”

“You what? I told you he’d already turned me down.”

“Yeah, I know…”

“So you lied?”

“I guess. It’s just that she’s so lonely. So is he. They’d be a great couple.”

Kitty cocked an eyebrow. “And you’re so sure they’re going to fall madly in love with each other at the dance?”

“No, no, of course not. But, he’d get a chance to see her looking like a girl,  for a change, instead of a guy.”

“That's a bit harsh,” Kitty said, shifting her weight. “I’ll see what I can do. But you shouldn’t have promised.”

He kissed her. “I know I shouldn’t have. But Charlie needs a break. Thanks. You’re the best,” he said, then hurried out the door as he was running late to his next class.

 "Wait! I didn't say I could!" Kitty called after him. 

 

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