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And just like that, he’s gone Without a goodbye, striding right out of the gallery

It’s one of thescenes I’ve ever been a part of

And yet, I feel the best I’ve felt in a while

Maybebreak, fourteen years ago…

LukeI grab the stea bowl of popcorn from the microwave and walk quickly toward my futon to set it down on the table The DVD player is fired up, thewith its readiness to be played

The dorm is pretty quiet otherwise, withtheir batteries for spring break or away on nonstop booze-pounding vacations—the latter of which includes ether for a couple weeks, and I probably should have taken her up on her offer to join her and seven of her friends in Cancun, but even with last-minute plane ticket and hotel costs aside, it didn’t really sound like that good of a time

Don’t getfantastic and my uncle Gary probably would’ve spotted me the cash, but I’ve seen Nicole’s friends in action and it aloddamn drunken disaster One that I would’ve had to help clean up…every single night

Instead of a fun-filled vacation, it sounded like the kind of fucking headache Advil can’t cure

Ready to dive into the er hovers over the play button when, like a whip of thunder in a silent sky, s into the adjacent ith a crack I juhtly together as Ava co inside my dorm, all limbs and blustery blond hair

“Code Blue! Code Blue!” she yells frantically, the only other explanation being a series of panting, winded breaths

I ju a fire or, I don’t know, a nuclear explosion, when she grabs me by the shirt and repeats her cryptic plea “Code Blue, Luke!”

“I don’t knohat that ers her more, and the familiar little line between her eyebrows that fors deep into her otherwise perfect complexion

“Didn’t you pay any attention to Grey’s Anatomy last week?” she screeches

“I did In fact, I paid loads of attention to the sexual dalliances I don’t reh” But Meredith and Cristina and Addison and Izzie? Well, I was definitely paying attention to them