Chapter 414 My Vacation Doings::3

• I thought that was bullshit. She was using that as an excuse. I was good enough for the moment, but she was interviewing others to see who would be an upgrade and take my place. Three weeks before summer break after my sophomore year, Rachel and I stopped seeing each other.
• Then there had been Courtney (also not her real name). Courtney was a quiet incoming freshman, who always had her nose in the books. She was in two of my classes, and we ended up both trying to get the same book for one of our papers. I had it first, but she seemed nice, and I knew she was smart. Real smart, to be in some of the classes she was in. So I told her we could share.
• We did an all-nighter in the library, barely speaking except for the work. I snuck in a snack in my backpack, and we shared it. She had chocolate. We both got A's. When the next assigned paper came, we just looked at each other. We met in our same place in the lower stack of the library, combining our reference resources. She had brought a picnic. I had managed to get my hands on two wine-coolers.