The Billionaire Boys Club (Billionaire Romance Series Book 1(30)
“I’ve heard,” Kelsey said.
“Tyler Olsen is already Kelsey’s nemesis,” Jessica said, smiling.
“Why? He seems really nice,” Ashley commented.
Kelsey shrugged. “I don’t know him.”
“You will, since he works out next to you every morning,” Jessica said.
“I don’t think he talks to commoners,” Kelsey replied.
“He’s really managed to irritate you,” Jessica commented. Kelsey thought about this. He had, but she hadn’t figured out why. Lots of the students were overly confident, and it was possible that Tyler was shy and that’s why he didn’t talk to her. But she hadn’t appreciated being called princess.
On Friday, Kelsey went back to the Athletic Center. And as he had for the past two days she had been there, Tyler walked in about five minutes later than she did. As was becoming her habit, she ignored him. Kelsey ran, then moved over to the weights. A few moments into her routine, she heard Tyler.
“You’re doing it wrong,” he said. Kelsey turned around.
“What?” she said, removing her earbuds.
“You’re doing it wrong,” Tyler repeated. “Here,” he said, removing one of the weights from Kelsey’s hand. He extended his arm, holding the weight. “If you bend your elbow, you’re only going to hurt yourself. See how my arm is straight?”
Kelsey frowned, but watched him as he demonstrated again.
“Try it,” he said, giving her the weight back. Kelsey held the weight in her hand and this time, she straightened her arm as she lifted the weight. Tyler grabbed her arm gently.
“Don’t lock your elbow. Just keep it soft.”
“You said to straighten it,” Kelsey protested. Tyler smiled.
“Straighten, not lock. Try again,” he said. Kelsey lifted the weight one more time, this time following Tyler’s instructions perfectly.
“Good. Now you’ll stay safe,” he turned back to his own weights.
“Thanks,” Kelsey called after him.
“My pleasure,” Tyler replied.
After returning to the dorm and showering, Kelsey joined Jessica and Dylan for a full-day Civ Pro study session in the library.
“I have no idea what’s going on,” Dylan sighed.
“I have a feeling that this has got to be easier than Professor Dudley is letting on. There’s a million lawyers in this country and everyone of them has to understand how to file a lawsuit,” Kelsey noted.
“Okay, let’s start from the basics. How do you start a lawsuit?” Jessica said as she pulled out some printed papers.
“What is that?” Dylan asked, taking one of the pages from her.
“A Civ Pro outline. I found it on the internet.”
“It’s come to that. We have to learn Civ Pro from Wikipedia,” Dylan sighed.
“It’s clearer than Professor Dudley,” Jessica commented.
“That is so sad,” Dylan said. “For this I’m paying sixty thousand a year.”
“Worth every penny,” Jessica retorted.
Dylan handed the page back to Jessica. “Keep going,” he said.
“OK, first you start with the pleading,” Jessica said, reading.
“Wait, that can’t be right. You have to figure out which court to sue in,” Kelsey chimed in.
“Yeah, jurisdiction comes first,” Dylan said. “I see we’re already hitting the limits of free information.”
“Hang on,” Jessica said. “It’s not the outline. I was reading out of sequence. First, you select the jurisdiction.”
“Don’t you have to decide whether it’s federal or state court?” Kelsey asked.
“I skipped that sentence.”
“Skip nothing, Jess. Otherwise I’m going to stay lost,” Dylan said.
Kelsey patted his hand. “It’s only the first week of classes.”
“Which means it’s eleven weeks until exams,” Dylan replied.
“Thanks for the reminder,” Jessica said, with sarcasm.
“It’s true. Whether we want it to be or not,” Dylan said.
“We have the same amount of time as everyone else,” Kelsey said soothingly. “We’ll figure this out.”
“I hope so,” Dylan said gloomily.
Saturday afternoon, Jessica and Kelsey got roped into helping Ashley prepare for her date with Matthew Hudson. Ashley stood in front of her mirror fluffing her freshly coiffed hair and smoothing her black-and-white dress. She took a picture of herself and put it on Instagram.
“What do you think Matthew likes to discuss?”
“Whatever you’re thinking, don’t say it,” Kelsey whispered to Jessica.
“What do gorillas discuss?” Jessica whispered back.
“Sports!” Jessica said loudly to Ashley. “Guys love sports.”
“True,” Ashley replied. She pouted in the mirror. “I hope he likes me.”
“If he doesn’t he’s an idiot,” Jessica said.
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