Baggage
I don't ownit. If I did I wouldn't put it on Fanfiction. would I?
Listening to the sentence she just sat. Didn't cry, didn't even move. Seven years. She got up, grabbed her purse and went to school. Prof. Collins was gone, again, and his aid was giving the lecture. Barely listening to him she let her mind wander, Seven years, how old will I be? How old will he be? How long is that? After the lesson on she once again grabbed her purse and wandered onto campus. Without looking up she walked right into another student. He was looking down too. He wore an old corduroy coat, a red blazer and a scarf, more or less traditional attire for the students. Both mumbled sorry and went on there way. She went to her dorm room and started on the essay about the realistic possibility of anarchy in the modern world. Her final for Prof. Collin's class.
He was coming from the dean's office carrying a box of Collin's belongings. Explaining how the HIV virus had finally turned into AIDS he asked that Collins could leave. He looked around the campus seeing all the students. Wondering why he left college to begin with he walked into a student. She wore a large army jacket over her tight fitting jeans and tee, traditional attire for students he assumed. Both mumbled sorry and went on there way. He took the subway to the hospital to go talk to his friends who were waiting.
That night she got a phone call from the hospital, apparently Prof. Collins was asking for her. She looked at her watch and realized it was two a.m. Wondering why her professor was at a hospital, and in NY City, and asking for her, she grabbed her coat put on a pair of jeans she snatched her purse and jumped in her old VW and drove.
He hung up the pay phone in the waiting room after making the most unusual phone call in his life. No less than an hour ago Collin's had asked him to call a student of his and gave her phone number. Talking to the others they decided to call her, maybe she knew why he would want to talk to her. If the confusion in her voice was any indication she didn't know why, but, she agreed to come down, so they must at least know each other.