r long blonde

ter her morning classes getting groceries before sh

r apartment complex and skinned her palms and knees. She didn't care bec

o check in with Sydney. She stood with her back to her, vigorously wri

smiled when Sydney turned around to look at her. "Hey!

house T-shirt from underneath the counter. "Delia is working the morn

ith mousy brown hair

er co-workers as you work with them. Today, I will work with you both, so I can train you. I will expla

then,"

k through the fiction section yet. In her free time, she enjoyed reading. She wasn't

s study rooms that weren't occupied. She walked down the rows one by one, her fing

elieve in ghosts, goblins, or monsters. Even the sexy vampires and werewolves the girls fawned over in their spare time. Though they sounded magical, in real life

on her heel

last time that happened, it'd

vividly remembered the smell of his spearmint gum as he told her how that s

nning the pages and then the cover. It was a vampire romance, and it c

er gotten, Jane?' he asked in that deep

do you care? Have you run out of girls to screw around with already? Ar

bout him. He definitely didn't deserve her. He ignored her question and picked up the end of her ponytail and rubbed it in-between his fingers. He'd never openly

aveled to her palms, and he reached out and grabbed her hand, cradling it like a precious

like w

d to your han

to know that. "I'm bored of you already," she said, walking

from the aisle, four rough fingers

ed at hi

ple bobbed deep in his thro

t over how? Was she supposed to forget everything he did to her? Forget the cra

ot two years. The sight of you still burns my stomach. It still makes me want to run and hide, praying you don't see me. I prayed every night that your family would move. That I would come to school and you wouldn't be there. Now you're here? So many colleges accepted you, and yo

irs. She didn't sense him following behind her, and she let out a sharp sigh of relief. There was

After hours of Sydney showing her the ropes of making different coffees, making sure she understood the recipes, and responsibilities of keep

and rested against the door. "That

der and chuckled. "I loved

can take off. I printed off your schedule for the week and stuck i

hung around her waist. "Okay. Are you s

d a busy day. Se

ing she'd spend most of her free time working or studying, which worked fine for her. She didn't need too much

a text from Cat

he promised herself she'd put herself out there more in college

Why not? It wouldn't hurt to attend a couple, e

be t