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don't know what that means, but have fun!"
mom yelled.
    "Alright." Lucy nodded and went toward the
door. "See you later, Alex." She called before closing the door
behind her.
    "She seems nice, reminds me a little of that
girl, Simone, you used to hang out with," mom said as I turned the
phone back to me. Yeah, like Simone if she was an evil alien who
tried to kill me.
    "She definitely isn't anything like Simone,
ma."
    "Oh, good." Mom nodded. "I liked her until I
found out about that horrible robbery at Cuppa Java. Such a
shame."
    "Yeah..." I really didn't want to talk
anymore about Simone. "Okay, sorry to let you go, Mom, but I have
to catch up on stuff from my online mythology class. I will call
you tomorrow."
    "Okay," she sighed, the disappointment
evident in her voice.
    "Bye, Mom."
    "Goodbye."
    I tossed my phone on my bed and slid onto my
uncomfortable desk chair. The school could have at least provided
us something better than a hard, wooden vessel, but it would have
to do until I found something different.
    I opened my laptop, clicked on the internet
icon, and slowly made my way to the transcript from mythology.
Before I even got halfway through the document my phone sang from
the bed. Frank Sinatra's Fly Me To The Moon blasted from the
phone's speakers. Ace's ring tone.
    Quickly, I pounced on the bed, unlocking my
phone and sliding it up to my ear. "Yello?"
    "Hey, Princess, miss me already?" His voice
made me smile, especially since I hadn't heard it much in the last
few days.
    "Of course, I did. Always do." I rolled over
so that I was lying on my back. Gone was the pink madness that my
mother bought for a comforter; it had been replaced by a soft green
down comforter, courtesy of my dad's credit card. lying on it made
me want to drift off to sleep after all the craziness of the last
few days.
    "Good, wouldn't want you to have ran off with
some new co-ed in your dorm."
    I rolled my eyes, even though I knew he
couldn't see it. "Please, Ace, first off I'm on an all-girl's
floor, so there isn't a single boy around. And second, there is no
way I would find someone else. If someone else liked me, then they
should have put a giant Caltian rock on my finger like you
did."
    Ace laughed. "I'm glad you are amused by the
Caltian rock."
    "It makes my finger all sparkly. People can't
help but notice, including my alien communication professor and a
waiter at La Noria."
    "Oh." He swallowed. "Take it you've realized
that Arizona isn't exactly alien free?"
    "I guess I should have expected that with
Circe being so close by." I lifted my feet in the air and kicked
off my flip-flops so they landed on the floor at the end of the
bed.
    "Speaking of Circe. I should be released from
the infirmary tomorrow if you can make time out of your busy
college schedule to see me after classes."
    "For real?" I asked.
    "Why wouldn't it be real, Alex?"
    I shook my head. He still wasn't used to
figures of speech. "What I meant to say is that it sounds
great."
    "Good, I look forward to seeing what all this
fuss is about dormitories," he said with a laugh.
    Tomorrow I would finally get to spend time
with Ace, real time that wasn't in an infirmary or with anyone
interrupting. I would just have to wait another day. At least that
gave me time to prepare and show him how much I actually did miss
him.

Chapter 10
     
    I thought my second day of classes would
never end. I constantly kept checking my phone, hoping that it
would be five o'clock and I would get to see Ace, but I would
always be disappointed.
    By the time my biology lab was over, I found
myself running back to my dorm. The last time I actually ran was
when I was throwing fire balls and being chased by evil Caltians
through a space ship. Who knew that this time I would be running to
get back to a Caltian?
    "You survived your second day of classes!"
Lucy threw her hands up as soon as I sprang through the door. She
was definitely the smarter one out of the two of us. She scheduled
her classes for later in