*Y/N's P.O.V.*

"Good morning, beautiful," I heard Patrick's deep morning voice the moment I opened my eyes and saw him beside me. He has me wrapped around his arms lovingly, I feel like he doesn't want to let go and I don't want him to let go too.

I smiled lovingly at him and kissed him on the nose, "Morning, prof," For some reason, even if we're together being intimate like this, I love calling him that. 

We've been together again for three days. Since we have a long weekend, I was able to spend all these days staying with Patrick. We caught up with each other, it's obvious that we missed each other and couldn't get enough of each other's presence. Within these days, we're both blooming again, all the negative feelings are now gone.

"You know, I really thought I lost you," I murmured as he placed a kiss on my forehead, "You're really good at pretending that you hate me and you didn't care," I added.

"I'm really sorry about that, princess. But I need you to hate me then, I was thinking that if you do, you'll go away from me and that will make this easier. But god, I realized that just made everything more painful," Patrick replied with guilt. Now I'm regretting that I brought it up.

"I understand and yeah, it really did make everything more painful. But you know what? I never was able to bring myself to hate or even be angry at you. For some reason, I'm still that student who's helplessly in love with her professor no matter what. I'm beginning to think you gave me a love potion along the way," I teased which made him chuckle.

"No, I think I'm the one who got the love potion because I can't stop thinking about you," he said sweetly, "You have no idea what I was thinking when Ethan was making his moves on you. I felt like a protective dad then and I want to barricade you from him."

"You were jealous? I knew it! Your bold comment to him on Valentine's Day meant something more!" I teased.

"Well, I didn't want to lose you. I never want to. Always know that," he told me truthfully, "Hmm, so, what are you planning to do?" he asked.

I know he's asking about my plan of revenge. 

"Honestly? I really don't know. I don't want to be like her, I don't want to do the things that she did like blackmail or something. I just want her to suffer from the things she's done to herself. You know, natural karma," I said out loud making Patrick smile at me.

"Maybe we just have to wait and see, karma's a bitch anyways," he said. I never really hear Patrick swear, just sometimes where we're too into something that we're doing, but other than that it's rare.

We dropped the subject and decided to spend more time being cheesy and wrapping ourselves around each other. We've endured all these months, trying to contain and eliminate these feelings and now that we're back at it again, we're really not holding back.

*Patrick's P.O.V.*

As Y/N is in the shower, I stayed on my bed just being so thankful that she's here again. I can't believe that last week, we're still trying to deny and hate each other but now...we're back like this again.

Y/N found out the things that Elaine did which obviously angered her so much, but I admired her more because she didn't do anything that I would have done if we exchanged places. She chose to go to me and focus on us instead of giving off the anger and hate. This just proves that I really have fallen for a golden girl. Also, she had no hard feelings after everything that I did to her - all those cold and emotionless stares, all those cruel and heart-breaking words, and the fact that I acted like she's nobody to me - she wasn't angry and she never was, proving that this girl still stuck with her feelings even if she's hurting. I admire her so much for that.

But understandably, we both wanted to do something about Elaine. Of course, she still has a somewhat control on the situation and I know the moment she goes back here and finds out that Y/N and I are together again, shit will go down. But as Y/N says, now that we're together again, we'll think of something.

But I think it's not just the two of us this time, maybe karma has joined the party too.

As I was waiting for Y/N, my phone suddenly rang. I saw the name of the dean of the college showing on my screen. This isn't unusual since we're both close friends too rather than just acquaintances. I answered the call immediately after reaching my phone, "Hello?" 

"Hey, Patrick. I'm sorry to bother you at this early hour. I just want to ask a favor if it's not a bother, of course," he asked. Again, we're close friends, we've done a fair share of favors between each other.

"Sure thing. What's the matter?" I asked.

"I'll be gone for four days. It's a sudden trip and I have no one else to appoint at the office, I want you to take cover for me during those days," he stated.

"That's no problem! I'm not busy now since the orchestra is over already. I can do that! You enjoy your trip, sir!" I said enthusiastically really meaning what I'm saying. By this time, Y/N has walked out of the bathroom while only wearing a towel. I smiled at her as I felt my cheeks burn. I mouthed to her that I'm talking to the dean and she looked at me worriedly, but I assured her it's nothing to do with us.

"Yeah, I hope so too. It may be Maldives, but I'm still there for work," he said, one word repeating over and over in my head.

"Did you say Maldives? You're going to Maldives?" I asked loudly and Y/N looked at me too.

"Yep, Malé Island of Maldives. Don't get jealous, Mr. Stump, this is a work trip," he said playfully.

I turned him on speaker and Y/N have heard that. She was as shocked as I am. Again, maybe karma is now working with us.

"Of course, sir, but still enjoy your trip, sir!" I said before we both hung up.

"Patrick, that's where they are. I know because Ethan told me...that's exactly where they are. Yeah, I know that place is still big but what a perfect coincidence!" she said.

"You have information about them? Like, know where they are?" I asked her.

"I could try and get some. You thinking what I'm thinking?" she said with a cute smirk. I love how confident she is.

"Well then, let's lead karma in the right way!" I said excitedly.

Unlike Elaine, we won't do anything worse like what she did. All we're intending to do is expose her naturally.

*Y/N's P.O.V.* 

Finally.

Finally, I got the name of the resort where Elaine and Ethan's friend is staying at.

I acted interested in what they are doing in front of Ethan and he was oblivious about where I am going with this. Thankfully, he trusts me and gave me the information after 2 days of acting interested. Yeah, somehow I feel guilty of using him as my information source, but I always remind myself that he tolerates his cheating friend. On their eyes, they know that Elaine is engaged to Patrick, yet they are still letting their friend fuck an engaged professor.

The moment school hours is over both Patrick and me headed back to his place. I relayed the information to him and just hope to god this will lead to something good.

Patrick began to call our dean and thankfully, he answered immediately.

"Hi Patrick, everything alright?" he asked.

"Of course, sir. I just want to check how you are doing. And don't worry, everything at the college is running smoothly. I make sure your schedules on meetings are still followed," Patrick stated.

"I knew I could count on you. Well, I am doing fine here. First two days are full of work, but I think I'll have some free time tonight. I just need to find a good place," the dean replied. 

"Oh, I know a place, sir! My cousin once went there and won't stop talking about how the place is perfect," Patrick said excitedly. I'm really thankful that he and Patrick are close friends, this would have been weird if they are not. Patrick continued to tell him the name of the resort that I have given him and in no time, our dean is convinced.

"Well, I'll tell you if I have the same experience. I'm counting on this, Patrick," he said in an upbeat tone.

"Of course. See you soon, sir!" Patrick said before hanging up, "Well, karma's on the way. I just hope this results in something good," he told me.

"Yeah, I hope so too. Elaine filed her leave as a business trip, right? That's already strike one as she's obviously just on a leisure trip. Strike two is the fact that she's with a student and strike three, she's cheating. Let's just see how all of this will go down," I said with a hopeful tone.

Of course, we just want to end this here. If our dean saw them, everything will come into place - surely Elaine will be fired, it would give an excuse to Patrick to officially break up with her and her name will be tainted - making all of this easier. It would all be her fault and nothing bad will be said against Patrick.

"But hey, no matter what happens, we're in this together now. We'll always find a way to clean up all this mess," Patrick pulled me in for a hug while I smiled and nodded at him.

~~~2 Days Later~~~

I'm currently busy doing the admin work that Elaine had left for me inside her office. Things just continued to be normal and nothing out of the ordinary happened. We also didn't hear anything from the dean after that night when Patrick told him the resort. We didn't want to check on him again since that would be too obvious that we know something already so we just waited. 

Honestly, Patrick and I are already expecting that he didn't see Elaine. 

As I get my focus back on the work that I am doing, the door to the office suddenly flung open which made me jump. It was a strong force and the person who opened the door is obviously pissed and that person is Elaine.

"Ms. Elaine...w-what are you...Your trip is a week-long, right?" I asked her out of shock. I tried to remain calm and ask her naturally.

It's obvious she's agitated - angry, confused, and worried. I could practically see her thoughts running, maybe trying to figure out things that she could say.

Was she caught? That's the only explanation I have now.

"The trip was cut short," she answered me with a serious tone.

"Is everything okay?" I asked, my voice has a teasing tone.

"NO! Do I look like......ugh!" she shouted, obviously annoyed.

I'm trying so hard not to laugh. She looked so defeated already and is trying so hard to think of a way out of the mess she created. Elaine went straight to her desk and began going through her stuff. She was muttering things under her breath. The girl is really pissed.

As she was rummaging through her stuff, I saw a familiar phone inside. It was Patrick's old smartphone and I know that's the one that has most of our pictures. I wanted to react the moment I saw it. I'm sure she stole that from Patrick and uses the contents of that phone to blackmail him.

"Miss Elaine. My office. Now," out of my deep focus on the phone, I suddenly heard our dean's voice from the door. He was standing there looking as serious as he can be at Elaine.

Oh, shit. I think she really did get caught.

Elaine looked like she wanted to insist but just ended up following the dean and leaving her things behind.

For some reason, my heart is pumping so loud. This is it, we waited in silence but we're finally getting the result of the little thing that we did.

I stayed in the office and closed the door, immediately grabbing Patrick's old phone inside her open bag. The phone is still so familiar to me and it even opened with my fingerprint since Patrick added mine so I could unlock it anytime too. I went over the gallery and I was right, our pictures are here. Again, we don't have any inappropriate pictures or whatsoever, but some of these will really raise an eyebrow about our relationship. The most inappropriate image in here is when I'm kissing him on the cheeks.

Even if I would have loved to keep these images, I have to let it all go now so Elaine will have nothing on us anymore. Thankfully, I'm tech savvy and checked every kind of account that is connected on the phone to access it, I disconnected all and deleted the images that were digitally upload to online storages and I intently updated the operating system of the phone but ending up messing the procedure to crash and destroy the phone ultimately. (Quick A/N: Trust me, this works, I accidentally did this to my phone last week. Had to give it to a service center to fix it and I ended up losing all my data. smh) After doing so, I tried turning it on again but to no avail.

I wiped the phone clean and left it where it should be and acted innocently there...waiting for an update to what's happening in the office.

*Patrick's P.O.V.*

Luckily, Y/N decided not to stay at my house last night or else we would have been in trouble again.

As I was preparing to go to the university, someone knocked on my door and I found that the dean was there to pick me up. The moment I saw him out my door, I know something happened already I'm just not sure what it was. I remained calm and accepted his offer of a ride. He was sympathetic, giving me a hint where this is going.

As we were inside his car, he told me what he saw. He was so sorry about how he's the one telling me this but being a good friend, he wants me to know what he saw. Turns out that he really spotted Elaine and her student at the resort being intimate with each other in a bar and worse of all, they're both wearing the university jacket that time.

My friend didn't suspect a thing that I know what's happening already. In fact, he's really sympathetic and even saying sorry again and again. They all know I'm engaged with Elaine and this is guaranteed to ruin that and to their knowledge, they know I'm in love with her and this will ruin me, but thankfully, that's really not the truth.

I thanked him for his honesty, telling him that I'd handle this the right way. By now I feel he doesn't vote for Elaine anymore and I'm thankful for that. He also told me that he already reported to the university admin and will take immediate actions today.

"She will be fired and her license will be put into a serious sanction. Being with a student is bad enough, but lying about a business trip and wearing the university name while doing so bumps this up to a whole new level. I hope you understand this decision, Patrick," he told me.

"Of course. I know the repercussions of doing such a thing, sir. There's no other way to fix this," I told him, almost talking about myself and not pertaining to Elaine.

We finally arrived at the college and things got serious immediately. I was in the dean's office and Ethan and his friends who knew about this thing are already in there. I'm sure they'll be the witnesses to this and are forced to speak before they get expelled too for tolerating something like this. Thankfully, Y/N isn't here...seems like Ethan didn't sell her out.

"Patrick, you can go back to your office now or you can choose to stay in the other room to hear this. I know it may be hard but...

"I'm staying, sir. I want to hear what really went down," I said and with that, he led me to the other room and headed out to get Elaine.

Soon enough, they're all inside the office and started talking about their relationship. The student was scared enough to stay silent so he spilled everything while Elaine remained silent. After discussing everything, the dean dismissed the student only leaving Elaine in there.

"Well, Ms. Elaine? Are you not going to say anything? Even defend yourself in some shape or form even if you know there's no way out of this?" the dean asked and I heard her scoff.

"I was caught red-handed already, what more can I say? But let me tell you right now, sir, I'm not the only one who has done this," she began to say and my heart began to race.

"What is that supposed to mean?" the dean asked, obviously curious about her claims.

"Call Y/N, maybe she can tell you. Tell her to get my purse too, I want to show you something. If I'm receiving this sanction, I shouldn't be only one," Elaine said and I immediately wanted to go out there.

Fortunately, I was able to hold myself back from panicking. If I did that, we'd fall right into Elaine's plan again.

Our dean ordered his secretary to call Y/N and in no time, I heard her voice, "What's...going on?" she asked.

"Care to tell us something about you and Mr. Stump?" Elaine asked boldly.

"Excuse me, what?" Y/N's voice is innocent.

"I have proof that you and Mr. Stump has an intimate relationship, Y/N and if I am getting punished for this so should you," Elaine revealed.

"That's a bold accusation, Elaine, I hope you know what you're saying," the dean threatened and I heard Elaine laugh.

This is not gonna end well for all of us.

Silence emerged, only the subtle shuffling of things from inside a purse can be heard. A minute turned into two and I finally heard a voice again, "Well? Where's the proof?" the dean asked.

"You did something to this phone, didn't you, Y/N?" Elaine asked in an agitated tone.

"What? Why would I? I'd never touch anything that isn't mine, Ms. Elaine. What is happening? I have no idea what's going on," Y/N sounded so confused and worried.

"Don't you deny it, Y/L/N. You and Patrick had a relationship. A student and a professor and I have photo evidence in this phone which is now suddenly broken, you did ---

"May I see that phone?" the dean interrupted her and a memory suddenly came back to me. The dean was the one who pushed me to buy that old phone and I know he's familiar to that particular one because I always show him it, "Is this yours, Ms. Elaine?"

"Y-yes... Of course, it's mine!" Elaine said in defense.

"Mr. Stump lost a phone like this recently, weird that you have exactly the same phone and model which you imply that has his pictures in it. And yes, while it may be true that he and Y/N had pictures, but it meant nothing and could not prove anything. Both have spoken up about the subject too and nothing else came up on it. It's all speculations, all rumors, all accusations. If you can't show us a proof of your baseless accusation, you know Ms. Y/L/N and Mr. Stump can press legal charges, right?"

Silence.

"That's what I thought. I already have a go signal to remove you from this college and university, Ms. Elaine and I'm doing just that. You did not only risk the reputation of this school but you proved to be a threat to your students and co-faculty. You are fired. Gather your things and you may go, all paper works will be sent to you. I believe you have more important things to fix now, Elaine," he stated, "Y/N, please stay for a while," he added.

The dean told everything to Y/N as she really acted cluelessly and confused through the whole ordeal. Y/N is keeping her act so well that I'm even convinced that she forgot everything and is now just figuring things out.

"I am not going to push any more questions, Y/N, but know that I believe that you and Mr. Stump are the best student and professor in this college respectively. I am not believing any kind of rumor, but I believe that you both know what would be the best and no matter what, I will try my best to support you. Just as long as you're not breaking any rules," suddenly I hear the smile on my friend's voice.

"Yes, sir. I understand. Thank you very much," Y/N said and I think I got what the dean is saying too.

Maybe, now is really the right time to clean up all this mess.

~~~One Month Later~~~

I cut all communication off with Elaine and made it official that we're not together anymore, honestly, there never were, but I have to let anyone know that because she has claimed many delusional things about us.

Fortunately, it didn't stay relevant for too long and maybe my decision to leave the university helped a lot too. Yep, that's right...I'm not a professor anymore and will be focusing on theatre and performance work more. The success of the orchestra that I helped create given me a lot of opportunities and I grabbed the one which enabled me to follow Y/N as she's studying in her dream graduate school. That would be in another state, but thankfully because of this decision, we could still be together while doing our own things.

Y/N just graduated last week and now we're preparing to leave the state. We're currently packing my stuff when I saw a familiar girl walking up to the front of my house.

"Didn't I tell you to leave me alone, Elaine?" I told her, I honestly thought that she came here to say sorry but the pride on her face says otherwise.

"Where are you going?" she asked like as if I owe her an answer.

"None of your business," I replied. I really resent this girl so much.

"Hey, prof? What am I supposed to do with...." Y/N's voice was heard as she walked out of my house holding a box. Elaine's shocked face was so funny that I almost laughed out loud. It's so funny that Y/N called me like that. She always does but it's perfect this moment.

Yes, even if I left my work, we still chose to keep our relationship low. We don't hide it as a secret anymore, but we're not too vocal about it too and I just realized that Elaine doesn't know this, in fact, she doesn't know that I left the university already.

"Oh, the nerve that you two have. I know you still have a relationship and I will make sure that ---

Y/N cut her off with a laugh as she walked and stopped just beside me, "Oh sure, darling. Come on, get your phone out so you can get a picture. Come on, prof, act sweet next to me," Y/N said, teasing Elaine.

It's obvious that she got so annoyed with Y/N's gesture, but before she could do anything, I'm deciding to end this, "Leave us alone, Elaine. You have nothing on us now. I left the university, Y/N has graduated too. Yes, you may have had us on your palms for months but did you really expect that to last long? You had your fun but it's all over now. If you want to expose us to the world, go on. We'd even be with you during the whole thing, let us expose ourselves to the world...see if anyone care, but I'm sure no one would anymore. Now, excuse us because we're too busy being happy together and are now deciding to completely leave your desperate ass behind," I said, gently taking Y/N's hand and leaving her standing there.

Luckily, what we're holding is the last stuff in my house so the moment we put it inside the car, we drove off.

"Seems like Professor Sasstrick is present today," Y/N said while smiling cutely next to me.

"She actually deserved so much more than that, Y/N, but I just want nothing to do with her from now on. I'm leaving all those things behind as long as I have my one and only champion of a student with me, I can live through anything, " I said with a smirk, obviously pertaining to her.

"Well, then, I promise to always be present by your side, prof. Count on that," she murmured, gently holding my free right hand and from there, we never intend to let go.

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