Chapter 156 Line In The Sand

• The whispers about me in the hallways and around campus slowly diminished as the novelty of my pregnancy reveal wore off and some other scandal became the talk of the school. I was relieved, because this meant I could really focus on studying.
• I needed the extra concentration, because studying was getting more difficult.
• In class, when the professor explained things, I was able to understand. However, when trying to learn the new material on my own in the library, I couldn’t always grasp what the textbooks were saying.