In Your Time

"I'll cut to the chase. Phoenix is close to failing my class," my history teacher said to Elizabeth. A few weeks had passed, and the end of the first semester was near. After seeing my preliminary report card, Elizabeth was called to a parent-teacher conference, and this was the reason.

"She seems like a bright kid, and I think her past amnesia might be affecting her grades in my class. I don't want to count her out yet, so I wanted to talk to you about it first," my teacher continued.

"What can we do at this point?" Elizabeth asked. My teacher sighed as I shifted awkwardly in my seat.

"I'd say, get her a tutor to help her catch up, and dedicate at least an hour a day to studying the material," my teacher suggested.

"Do you have a tutor in mind?" Elizabeth asked. By her tone of voice, you would think someone was telling her I only had six months to live.

"There's a exceptional student in my senior class who just transferred here. Torin Rogers. Maybe you can get his contact information and see if he'd be willing to tutor Phoenix," he answered. That caught my attention.

"Torin? Torin is good at history?" I blurted before I could stop myself. My history teacher smiled slightly.

"It seems, Phoenix is already familiar with him. Call him and see if he'd be willing to help," he said.

as she pulled her hair out of the bun she had it in. Braden and I followed closely behind her. She ended up going to twice the amount of meetings because of me. The whole time, she was professional and motherly. I knew it

your meetings?" He

except in history,"

he'll tutor you. Braden, I don't feel like driving," Elizabeth said as she pulled her keys out and tossed them to her son. I nodded to her as she got in the passenger side. I called Torin in the car and he gladly agreed. The first order of business would be to sit down with Elizabeth and create a

see Torin smiling and waving at me. I let him in and led him to where Elizabeth

a seat before they started talking about me. After about ten minutes, they'd agreed on the times and a price. Torin would tutor me every day after school for at least an hour. Elizabeth, being the sweet

kid," Torin

the Parks are family friends," I explained automatically. It had become somewhat of

No one had ever asked before. When Braden announced that we were engaged, everyone just took it as a fact. No one ever

I asked, caught

marriage like this for their 17 year old children unless they were royalty. Braden's family seem rich, but not enough to qualify as royalty. We're way past the age of arranging marriages for the hell of it. Relationships these days are based on the unreliable idea of love, and the generations have been getting married later in life due to personal goals we want to meet beforehand. Also, you two act like you like each other, but not enough to make a lifelong commitment. You,

all that just by watching us?" I asked dumbfounded.

to you," he said

can't tell anyone the truth, or I'll have a hard time again. Remember how I told you about how that school treats scholarship kids?" I said quickly. He smirked before leaning back in the