The campus definitely looked different this time of day. About a third of the college students looked like overgrown preschoolers, playing hopscotch, duck duck goose and other games between Afternoon lectures. Guess they were having recess while their unregressed peers studied and prepped. And nobody seemed to give Mark a second glance as he carried the dean across the quad. And for her part Lisa was content to just nibble on Rodger the bears ear while she waited for them to arrive.
Thankfully the access code the dean managed to remember still worked on the keypad even after it had transformed into cheap fisher price plastic. But once Mark descended into the basement the woman in his arms started to squirm. He assumed she was just being fussy so he gently jostled her and with pats to her bottom. But that only prompted her to hiss “mark i-aka! Mr Masters, put me down this instant!”
“Oh sorry!” Mark blushed as he let the educator back onto her feet. “I didn’t mean to… I didn’t think you would…welcome back, Lisa.”
“Than you” she likewise blushed a she dusted off her pencil skirt with her re-manicured hands. “But that’s Dean Sullivan to you. And keep your voice down!” She whisper yelled
“What, why?” Mark whispered
“Students aren’t allowed down here.” She explained as they crept further in. “And if you get kicked out and I can’t read by the time I get down there then-“
“Hey? Is someone over there?” An authoritative female voice range up around a corner ahead of them
“It’s security,” Lisa practically cursed before spinning about face to carefully instruct mark as fast as she could. “Get out of sight and let me handle this.”
“But what if we get separated and you need me?” Mark posited. “Wh-what if we could trigger a shift, she can’t kick me out if she’s just a baby.”
The Dean lightly shoved him in the chest and gave him with a pleading look. But as the sound of bootsteps grew closer Mark wasn’t even sure if he could hide in time so he…
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