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My phone buzzes on the bed, so I snap myself out of my torture and put onyou up fro special you want since you’re getting in late?"

"Yeah, to hit the strip club on our way holes then Got it," he says, without even as ht, like ays do I love h to bear the weight of everything that happened toplans with hi up, I spend the next two hours packing the rest of s--a job that would take anyone else fifteen minutes

Before I leave, I push myself back to the atch my life that should have been happen outside, but only for fewon my lap, and the roller behind me, I make my way to the hallway and ask another student to help me wheel the roller to the taxi out front Once the door is shut and we’re on our way to the airport, I forget it all--the dream, the scene out my , the last four years at Florida State; it’s all oing through the

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"Come on, princess Get your ass up! It’s tiets the wor to my brother, whose head is buried under two pillows He’s still nursing hiht Nate’s not used to my schedule I’ve never neededup in pain--however real, or not, it rad years with party after party, and I still finished with a 38 grade point average

"Gahhhhhhhhh," Nate bellows, his voice muffled by hisme in the chest "What are you, part robot? How are you not tired?"

"I’m just that awesome Awesome people don’t need to sleep asthe blanket froht! I’ his fists into his eyes and rubbing like he did when he was a kid He’s still that kid to me--probably alill be "The team doesn’t even start workouts until nine anyway, asshole!"

He’s co dressed I push Nate I push hi pushed And I push hiot hurt I e ball, probably for soo all the way, as in big leagues, and stay there--for years

"Hey, that’s awesoet your shoes on so we can get ourinto the hallway to wait for hi--Nate takes the treadym, and I work the hand cycle My body, at least what’s left of it, is so and fitness have kind of become an obsession School has always been easy, which is probably why the partying never seee--I need those challenges to remind me that I’ elf, and I hate you," Nate says, throwing his workout towel atto lock up our roo the hard stuff in your hands You know, you can get drunk on just beer, bro You don’t have to do shots and shit like that That’s why you’re always so tired in the h school, always hanging with the sairlfriend The switch flipped when he found out she cheated on him Thank God I was home when that happened He left the party, came home to me, and we shared our first bottle of Jack Damn,weaker

"About that, ht before the doorway exiting our dorm

"Out of what?" He’s lost -for-randoht It’s…it’s just not h, but Nate’s not in the mood "Fuck off, I knew you’d make fun of me"