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Chapter One

Katelyn

It’s my sanctuary, outside of the main campus library

My dorm room

I wouldn’t havemy own space The only spare residential assistant room on campus

It was an issue for all the other girls in the dorst themselves that no one would want to share with me anyway, so they left me to my misery

“Weirdo”

“Nerd”

“Lard ass”

I can still hear it all muttered whenever I walk past anyone in my year

Most people on campus, if I’m honest

They snigger and giggle as they pass corown out of it, and I’ve never gotten over it

Just learned to try to ignore it

My room is my world when I don’t have to be out of it The only place I feel safe and the one place nobody bothers me

But an extended weekend, and everyone in the dor Campus except me?

Heaven

It happens so rarely, I relish the idea and count the days until it’s finally the Friday before the weekend and there’s a sudden, alhout the whole campus

Throughout the whole world, it feels like, a majority of campus students and staff take three days off to do whatever it is they do outside ofmy life miserable

I’nments and there’s no need to study for finals any more than I already do

Having a fuller figure andainst me

This plain, slightly thicker nerdy girl is also no slouch when it coe

Computer science is mostly a solo subject, but even roup projects because they know it’s just easier that way

It does get lonely though sometimes but I have my books

And not computer science books either

My real books