Page 81 of Monster's Baby

“Hopefully, his twin will be able to help turn him back to normal,” I said cheerfully.

“His twin?”chorused the rest of the table.

“Yeah, we saw him heading into the office this morning,” Aiden said.“Spitting image of the professor.”

“I had no idea he had a twin,” Lilia said.

“How would you?It’s not like we know much about the professors,” I said.“I don’t even know if Professor Akhtar is single, and I spend nearly all my time with him.”

“That’s an excellent point,” Una said.“He’s very good looking.Could you find out for me?”

Pierre tickled her ribs and she squirmed in his hold, laughing.

“I’m joking!”she gasped when he stopped.

“You’d better be,” he whispered, leaning close to her ear.

I only heard because I was sitting directly opposite them.

We had a fun-filled breakfast, but when it came time to leave for class, Professor Reynolds hadn’t joined us.

“I don’t want to leave him alone for the entire morning,” I said with a frown.“I’ll go get him.”

“I’ll go with you,” Aiden said quickly.

“Bruce, would you mind telling Professor Dunlop where we are?We’ll join the class as soon as we can.”

He nodded.“I’m sure the professor will understand.”

Aiden and I raced each other up the stairs to our rooms, which were empty.

“Okay, now I’m worried,” Aiden said.

“It’ll be fine,” I said grimly.“The baby tracker I put on him should still activate.”I cast a spell and a blue thread zipped away from me, out the door and around the corner.“It’ll take me two seconds to find him.Why don’t you head to class?”

“Yeah, okay.”

I left him at a run, chasing the thread up the stairs to the fourth floor.On the way, I passed by Aiden, who looked worried.

“Just go to class,” I said.“I’ve got this.”

“Yeah, okay,” he said.

I did a double take, feeling like that was déjà vu.“That was weird,” I muttered.The thread led me down one of the boy’s hallways, and into a room.I knocked on the door, breathing hard from my run.

A student walking down the hall gave me a funny look.“You know that’s the boy’s bathroom, right?”

I frowned.

Maybe Professor Reynolds came up here to this bathroom instead of using ours.

Why?

Bells of suspicion were ringing in my mind.

What did he do to our bathroom?

“Would you mind checking for Professor Reynolds, please?”

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