New Beginning 684

"That's not fair!"

Even as the words left her mouth, even before Professor Ted's eyebrows rose, Hope knew she sounded like a child. A particularly bratty one. She took a deep breath and did not look up at the wall over his shoulder, where the clock was ticking down the five minutes before the last bus left campus.

"What I mean," she said quickly, trying to sound more like the experienced woman of the world she was at 18. "Is this is worth at least a C. C minus."

Professor Ted cleared his throat ...