Friday

Josh is consistently early to class, so scrolling through his phone in a nearly empty classroom is not a rare occurrence for him. Something that was new is having someone sit next to him and pull him into a quick kiss.

"Good morning! I did invite my roommate along for Saturday, or rather she invited herself when she saw my new Label." Emily rested her head against Josh's shoulder. "She knows a lot more about 'alternative' makeup and stuff than me."

She finally let go of her boyfriend as the professor arrived to start lecture. Josh noticed she's wearing the outfit she put together last night, although the tank top seems a bit tighter than in the photo.

Lecture was easy, half of the time was spent on answering questions about next week's exam and then the rest was the start of another topic. Emily got some stares from classmates as they noticed her Label.

Josh and Emily had lunch together, talking about class and actually doing some studying. Josh noticed that his girlfriend is getting a lot more affectionate, keeping some sort of physical contact and rewarding correct answers with kisses. He also noticed that she still hasn't said his name, only using pet names. I wonder how long it will be before she actually learns my name.

"You seem tense, Babe, what's wrong?"

Josh looks at Emily. His girlfriend. "Ah, I just still don't quite believe what's happened. Like we're still basically strangers."

Emily sighs. "Yeah... I get it. I have the benefit of my Label dumping feelings for you into my system, but you don't." She pulls Josh in close, pressing his arm between her growing breasts. "You are right though, we should get to know each other better." Her eyes widened as she realized that what she'd done might not help her boyfriend feel more comfortable. "Shit, sorry about that. Umm... Fuck."

Josh blushed hard, matching his girlfriend. "Hey, don't beat yourself up over it. Like you said, weird feelings. If you want, you can come to my place for dinner tonight. We can play some video games or whatever."

Agreeing on that, the two go their separate ways to their afternoon classes.

Josh's lit class went by the same way they always do - staying awake by covertly playing a game on his phone. Professor Tamara Brown knows this course is a general education requirement for every student at the university, and as such as rather lenient when it comes to in-class participation.

After taking a quick stop in a bathroom to make sure he looks presentable for video, Josh heads to the study room that the team had booked for recording.

"Hi Josh! We're just getting set up." Dani said, skimming some notecards while Adam hooks up a laptop to the TV in the room.

"I'll start a test recording." Adam murmured. He did raise the volume on his voice as they went through a test run to make sure all the info fits within the allowed time. It did, even with a few stops to figure out needed additions to the presentation, so another recording was started.

Just over halfway through the presentation, Dani was going over her slides. "These social factors impacted each of these artists in different ways. For example, by depicting scenes of working class -" she stopped mid sentence, her note cards falling from her hand.