Your Eyes, My Nudity(Completed)

Chapter 33

The last few days of school were supposed to be the culmination of a once-a-life-time four years.

A celebration of my hard work and dedication. This was how I tried to treat it as I sat in the library and typed up my speech.

Graduation was next week and my parents and family were coming down to see me walk across that stage. I tried to remain happy even though my heart was heavy. It was difficult to write a speech about celebration when I was feeling so rejected.

Jarvis called me while I typed but I didn't answer.

I figured I would call him later. But he called me again seconds later. I ignored the call again, but when he called a third time right after, I knew it was important. He never called me back to back to back like that. I answered quietly, so I wouldn't disturb the other students.

"What? I'm in the library," I whispered.

"Did you not see?"

"See what?" I asked.

He told me he would meet me outside of the library but he wouldn't tell me what was so urgent.

I emailed my unfinished speech to myself and left to go see what this nigga was going through.

I walked outside and Jarvis was walking towards me. I didn't immediately recognize it, but by the time he was in my face, I saw eyes looking at me from all directions. People were pointing, whispering, but all of them staring at me. Then I looked at Jarvis.

His eyes scared me. Told a horror story. He handed me the magazine that all of the students standing outside were reading. It was a copy of the Spring Edition FAMU Magazine, which was a journalism program that I gave funding to. It had apparently just been released. And sure enough, when my eyes graced the cover, I felt panic.

Love, Sex, and Conflict on Campus: The true love story between the school Valedictorian and her Professor

...my eyes graced the cover, I felt panic.

He has a near perfect rating onratemyprofessor.com. His classes are among the most popular at the school and for good reason.

"He's charismatic, funny, intelligent, down to earth, engaging, and very handsome," says Tiana Lawrence, a current student of Professor Shawn Carter.

He's written books on ethics and philosophy and heads several boards not only around FAMU but Tallahassee and New York City as well. He's been featured on NPR and was interviewed in the CNN special Black In America. The 35-year old Professor, born in Brooklyn, now asks questions to FAMU freshman and sophomores about the meaning of life, and love, and right, and wrong.

She scored an unprecedented come from behind victory last spring in the Presidential Election, after being down considerably in the early polls. She's been featured in the local news for a non-profit organization she started her sophomore year that focused on literacy in disenfranchised teenagers.

"I think she has done a wonderful job as president and is an example of what can be accomplished by a hard working student," said Professor Tre Thompson, a current foreign language teacher of Beyonce Knowles. "To top things off, she even came to school when she was just 16. She's doing all of this, and she isn't even old enough to drink."

The plot thickens. 16 year old Beyonce first met Professor Carter like most freshman did. In his ethics class, where the weekly firestorm of banter and debate on ethical principles help to cultivate the moral compass that students are going to need now that they are away from parents. This is one reason why the school encourages freshman to take ethics their first semester.