CHAPTER 5 Their final project...

Professor Piper wants her students to get started on their final project, a 10,000-word short story.

It isn't even Thanksgiving yet, but she doesn't want them to put it off until the last minute.

Cath's stressing aloud to Nick as they work in the library; writing just isn't as easy for her as it used to be.

They wrap things up at midnight, and Cath gets out her phone to call her room and tell Levi and Reagan she's headed back.

Surprise: Levi's waiting for her outside the library, ready to walk her home.

She tells him he doesn't have to, but he insists. (Just in case you're not getting it, Levi is the nicest guy on the planet.)

When Cath meets Wren and Courtney for lunch, Wren says nothing about the email her dad sent; she doesn't know Cath knows, or at least she's acting like she doesn't.

Cath waits through several more lunches to talk to Wren, but Courtney's always around, so finally Cath walks Wren to class and confronts her about the email on the way.

Wren says she's thinking about seeing their mom, and Cath can't believe it.

Cath asks Wren to let her know what she decides, and Wren says she's not going to talk to Cath about it if Cath's going to get upset.

Because being upset that your mom wants to waltz back into your life after abandoning you isn't a totally normal emotional reaction, or anything. Geez.

Cath's sitting in her room (no way, really?) freaking out over what Professor Piper said to her after class.

She got an F on her unreliable narrator.

Fanfiction is unacceptable, it seems, since Professor Piper called it plagiarism.

Cath said she just borrowed the characters and the world, but wrote a new plot, but Professor Piper said the characters and world make the story. In other words, no borrowing, a.k.a. stealing.

Not only is Cath totally mortified, she can't get hold of Wren; every time she calls, it goes to voice mail.

What she and Wren would normally have done at a time like this is throw an Emergency Kanye Party, in which they blast Kanye West songs and dance around the room.

(Click here for your own Emergency Kanye Party break.)

It feels kind of pathetic to have an Emergency Kanye Party by herself, but Cath does it anyway, singing at the top of her lungs.

Levi shows up and starts dancing with her, and they both start laughing and rapping and generally being cute together.

Reagan arrives and says she's had a weird day and wants to go out. Levi says he'll go, but Cath says she's just going to write. (Do we even need to tell you this anymore?)

Cath checks her phone and sees that Wren texted her and says to come to Muggsy's, a bar near campus. It's an emergency.

Levi agrees to drive her and to catch up with Reagan later.

At the bar, they discover Wren is trashed (surprise), and a big guy is trapping her against the wall.

Cath pushes the guy's arm out of the way and asks Wren what the emergency was.

Turns out Wren was trying to text Courtney and texted Cath instead; the 911 was that the guy Courtney liked was there. So, you know, not an emergency at all.

An obnoxious frat guy starts hitting on Cath and Wren, being all gross about the fact that they're twins.

Levi tells him to stop being a jerk, and the guy who was caging Wren against the wall plows the frat guy in the chin.

He's actually a good guy.

His name is Jandro, and he and Levi are friends, and Wren's into him.

Cath tries to get Wren to leave the bar, but Courtney shows up, and they decide to stay and drink more.

Cath leaves with Levi, feeling awful because she can't keep Wren safe; Levi suggests they go to a 24-hour diner and get some food.

While they eat, Cath tells Levi everything that happened with Professor Piper and the plagiarism accusation.

Levi says it's no big deal if Professor Piper isn't reporting her to the Judicial Board, but Cath can't expect her professor to be into gay Simon Snow fanfiction.

Writing might not be going so well at the moment, but Cath's love life is looking up.........

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