Alice and her new friends were in a new room in the afternoon. Alice sat at the front in the corner with her friends. Chloe and Katie were muttering away to her. She couldn't help but smile at them. They were so funny and easy to be around, she could be herself and didn't have to pretend.

Meanwhile Daniel was talking about epithelial cells. Alice studied him. He was tall, easily over 6 foot. He wore dark blue jeans that fit him perfectly and a thin black jumper that emphasized his broad chest. He wore glasses and his hair was cut fairly short. The eyes behind his glasses were a nice shade of green, sort of pale but like intense at the same time. The intensity of them had startled her at first. He had a nice open smile too. There was the wedding ring of course which meant he was off limits - not that she would even dream of getting involved with a lecturer. After the trouble at her old uni, no thank you!

"Now as you all know there are 3 types of this cell…." Danny was pointing to a image of a cell on the board. She frowned. He was wrong, there was only one!

"Are you talking about columnar cells?" Alice asked interrupting him.

Danny looked at her. "Yeah."

"Your wrong."

Everyone was looking at her. Danny smiled. "Am I?"

"Yeah."

Katie and Chloe were just bubbling with excitement. No one ever contradicted Danny before.

Danny walked over closer and took off his glasses and cleaned them. "Tell me how."

"It's all about the junctions." she elaborated.

Was it just her or did he smile wider? "Well cell junctions of the cell tri partite variety are only seen in tall cells. Columnar cells. There are only one type, tri-partite."

"You are quite right." Danny told her smiling.

She smiled victoriously.

"But there are 3 types of columnar cells are there not?" he put his glasses back on. His face was amused, a half smile tugged at his mouth.

Her face began to fall. "Yeah. Simple, stratified and pseudo stratified."

He nodded. "We aren't talking about a specific cell, we are talking about them on the whole, nice try though Miss Collins. " he then looked back at his board.

"See the look he just gave you?" Katie asked.

"Is he one of those tutors who doesn't like being questioned?" Alice whispered.

"Usually he's good, but he looked really smug there." Chloe told her.

She noticed Daniel look at her then. He raised his eyebrows smiling then carried on with his teaching. Alice clenched her jaw. O great another lecturer who was gonna treat her different. Just what she needed.

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"Now as you all know clinical settings start on Thursday. Any questions about them I am free to speak now, otherwise I will see you all tomorrow. O and if you aren't free to speak drop me an email and I will reply as soon as I can." he smiled at his class.

Everyone was clearing up.

"Where heading over to Jo'burg to go shopping. Wanna come?" Chloe asked.

"We're gonna get Mary some stuff for her date." Katie added. Chloe tutted.

"Next time, I wanna try and get my placement sorted."

"Ring me." Chloe asked as Katie dragged her away.

"Don't start with her Clo!"

"She'll be alone with him, I want to know all the details!"

"What like she is gonna do anything." Katie drawled.

"I dunno, he isn't that bad looking."

Katie elbowed her.

Alice narrowed her eyes.

"O yeah, sorry I forgot." Chloe whispered as she left.

Alice took out her phone and text Chloe saying it was fine and of course she'd give her all the dirty details, not there would be any.

Daniel had a crowed of people around him, mostly he handed out some encouragement and words of advice upon starting their new placements.

"Don't worry Asha, once you get in there it'll come naturally. If in doubt just ask the head vet. Dr Burlap is a good friend of mine, he won't mind."

"You sure Danny? I don't want to look stupid."

"I taught you well Asha and your marks were extremely good. You'll be a natural."

Asha looked visibly relieved. "Thanks Danny."

He had taken his time with every person making sure they were completely sure before he moved on. He patiently answered every question although most of them were the same just worded different. Soon they were alone and he turned to her.

"Miss Collins, what can I do for you?" he asked smiling.

"I don't have my placement details yet."

He frowned. "O, give me second." he logged onto the computer.

They stood in silence. The noise of the computer whirring filled the room.

"So your new?" he asked starting conversation.

"Yeah." she replied.

"What were your marks like? I'm sorry I haven't had time to look at them yet?"

"Ok."

"You like it here?" he asked typing.

Alice shrugged. "I have friends and the work is easy enough." then she flushed when she remembered how he shot her down.

He smiled. "It was an easy mistake to make. You probably misinterpreted my words. Or misheard me."

She shrugged.

He tapped away then frowned. His green eyes confused. She couldn't help but be drawn to them they were a nice shade...

"This is wrong." he murmured.

She walked over to the computer. Frowned when she saw she wasn't even on his list.

"How late did you transfer? Enrol?"

"About a week ago it was finalised."

He shook his head. "Your not on the system yet."

"So?"

"So you can't be given a placement because you don't exist. Not to the computer anyway. See to stop favouritism the computer randomly selects who goes where. Not me."

Alice raised her eyebrows.

"One of your friends was very grateful to me, I tried to explain but she said it was our little secret." he laughed. "Chloe and Katie are nice people and good workers. You picked good friends."

"They sort of picked me." she admitted.

"O." he laughed.

Alice felt worries fill her. "How long will it take to get me on the system?"

He shrugged. "I don't know, see it is a new system, takes a while to get it up and running."

"There is a mandatory amount of weeks to complete. How long is this gonna take?"

Danny took his glasses off and rubbed his mouth frowning. "Tomorrow? Next month? Who knows?"

"So what do I do?"

"There is nothing you can do." he replied. "Except wait."

"If I don't complete my mandatory weeks then I fail fourth year!" she exhaled shaking her head.

He put his glasses back on. "Look I'll go see admin for you and try and get this sorted."

"I can!" she protested.

"Yeah you could but I have more clout than you, you are just a student. I might be able to hurry this up."

"Can you go now?"

He checked his watch. "Sorry no I have to go. First thing tomorrow."

"Thank you." she replied grudgingly.

He smiled.

Alice turned and walked away.

"Thank you for trying to correct me." he called as she left.

Alice looked back and saw him putting his glasses in their case. She thought he looked more natural and approachable without them.

He cocked his head slightly. "I like students who challenge me. Who don't take what I say as gospel. It's refreshing actually."

"If your wrong I'll tell you." she assured then left the room.

Danny watched her leave then shook his head smiling widely.

A/N all the mistakes in ther cells bit are all mine, i only understood a little bit of my research from when i did my HEFC human biology course, the rest of it was all goobledegook so i wrote what i understood, trust me it was teensy weency bit! lol anyway hope ur enjoying x