There was a single clock on the wall, showing 3:48.
"Nice, we're done. Got this room reserved for another twelve minutes, too," a young man said.
"I still have to read it over," a young woman, Bailey, replied without lifting her eyes a bit.
The room, a small space within their university's library, was quiet. The walls were somewhat soundproof, blocking out any chatter that was occurring from the outside.
Bailey looked as attractive as ever. Cute face, freckles, and bangs. Today her eyeliner was a little more elaborate than usual. The man thought about her putting on makeup. He thought about how, regardless of whatever her intentions were, he felt himself caught in the crossfire every time he saw her.
Eyes flickering across the laptop screen, she checked for mistakes in their paper-- but there was no hurry. They still had a week before the deadline.
For the man, now was as good a time as ever.
"Want to grab dinner later?"
Her gaze froze, but only for a moment, "Are you trying to ask me out again?"
"Yeah," he said without hesitation.
"...Remember what I told you last time?"
"That you're a witch and you're not dating anyone?" he said lightly, "Well, I saw you in lecture spending the whole hour swiping right on your phone, so something tells me that's not true..."
She paused again. He was only making things harder for them both. But, if that's how he wanted to be...
"Yeah, I'm a witch who fucks the souls out of guys, so I only do one-night stands. Sorry."
The man chuckled.
"Oh, shit, I mean, I don't care. Not using my soul for much else, anyways."
"I have a rule that I don't fuck classmates or coworkers. Gotta draw the line somewhere, y'know."
"Ahhhh... yeah, makes total sense..."
The man sighed and laid back in his chair, looking up at the ceiling. She was friendly to him most of the time. Sometimes more than friendly. Why would she say that? Was she doing sex work or something? Wouldn't make much sense to go on dating apps, though. So was there just something about him that was unsexy?
"Pfft. Some other reason, probably," he thought to himself.
"Don't believe me?" Bailey said.
"No, actually, I totally believe it. What, do you like, cast a spell and make dicks hard?"
"I could, but why would I need to?"
"Good point," the man said, scratching his chin, "So you fuck and then ride a broom out the window the morning after?"
"Hah, no, I just leave like normal, but that'd be funny."
The man chuckled, but then a thought came to him.
"Is she trying to be provocative?"
All this joking around was just making him more tense. He looked at her again. Those little pink lips. Was she really whoring herself out, wrapping them around random dicks on dating apps? The thought made him maddeningly desperate for an answer. Fucking a slut was one thing. Being rejected by one was another.
"Well now that this paper's done, we're hardly gonna see each other... And in another two weeks, summer will start and we won't even be classmates anymore," he said, "So why not make an early exception to your little rule?"
"Hm..." Whether she had finished checking the paper or not, Bailey closed the lid of her laptop. She finally looked back at him, her lips showing something resembling the faintest grin.
That was enough for him.
"I'll give you a better time than any of the other guys. Guaranteed."