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I grabbed the rest of the supplies I need and headed to the checkout My phone rang, and my dad’s photo flashed across the screen

"Hey, Dad What’s up?" I answered

"Honey, I ondering if you wanted to grab so the Lear this weekend I booked a last-minute charter to the Greenwich, Connecticut Want to meet me at the airport?" he asked

"Absolutely! I need more hours on the Lear And I’d love to see you, too I can only do it if I " I handed some cash over to the cashier as I spoke with e clothes, whip up the sirls, and head over to ht it meant you would have to skip classes School co You know the rules, sweetie We don’t take off for another two hours Meet me in ninetyo back hoot back to the dorm I hadn’t heard a peep from the other side of the suite, so I decided that Faith and Natalie h tiet ready before Ithe bathroos wereabout anyone else barging in on me As I washed my hair with my favorite coconut lime shampoo, I couldn’t help but think of Drake I had bumped into him twice in less than twelve hours, and both times I’d felt a chemistry like I had never experienced before The way he had first looked at me at the party and held on to rocery store ht have felt it, too But then he’d been so cold toHe didn’t even really know ry with me?

I just didn’t understand the ht I knew hione south We had dated for three years, and everyone thought ould end up gettinge party his freshly fast Jackson kicked his ass then and there and told hiain He was the one who’d told h the whole ordeal

I was so hurt and didn’t kno to react Everyone heard about what had happened because of the fight The pitying looks at school were tough enough to bear Then when Brad decided that he wanted ht Jackson to accoot even worse Flowers showed up on es and missed calls came all the time I tried to avoid Brad and was pretty successful at it until he started showing up everywhere I went I wasn’t sure how he knehere I would be, and it freakeda restraining order, but I worried that it would push hie The boy I had fallen in love with had disappeared, and Brad becanized

Jackson and Brad had been friends throughout high school and had pledged Sight had caused so with Jackson since he was a legacy When they found out that Brad had resorted to stalking me, Jackson pushed for him to be kicked out of the fraternity and had the support of a lot of influential alumni due to his family connections behind him

When the chief of police went to his parents, they’d refused to believe that things had gotten that bad They wouldn’t intervene, so Aubrey and Jackson’s dad did He owned the local bank, which held the e on their house I wasn’t supposed to know that he’d visited Brad’s parents and told the to call in their loan I’d heardabout it on the phone after Brad had transferred to a school out West He didn’t want to go, but his parents knew that they had to act fast or things were going to get bad for them The Silvers had a lot of influence in town and hadit on odsend toabout seeing him in town and move on with my life without him in it What I hadn’t been able to do was feel couys What happened with Brad had added sooodand forgot about boys for a while And when the tie, it made sense for me to attend Blythe but stay at home with s and could only do that while living on campus Brad hadn’t been a problem for more than two years, and I didn’t have an excuse to stay hoer