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“Then you dropped out”

“Why did I need a che to do with that in White Peak?” She raised her eyebrows, then looked at Kinsley “And it totally counts It wasn’t a peck We full-on made out”

“You studied chemistry?” Seb asked

“That’s what you took from that?” Saylor blinked at him “You’re weird”

“I don’t knohat to do with all this infor between her and Tori

“I’ure it out In the shower,” Tori said dryly

“And I’ot up, holding up my hands I could not listen to those two bicker their way through their sexual frustration anymore, and nor did I want to hear e years while I was actually studying for a degree I…

Used

In my bookstore

All that time, wasted, on the Dewey decimal system, only for my best friends to never put a book back in the alphabetical order I needed

Sigh“That is so”

Slowly, I nodded, looking toward the karaoke stage where Kinsley was currently spitting Eminem like her life depended on it

“Is that a skill she picked up during pot parties at college, too?”

I almost choked on my drink and spat it everywhere I elbowed Seb “No It’s one she’s always had that only comes out when she’s drunk”

“Oh She’s drunk? And she can rap like that?” His eyes widened “I know rappers who can’t rap like that”

“Apparently my friends are full of surprises,” I replied dryly “It seeht”

“You really didn’t know about their… adventures… in college?”

“Why would I have known? Unlike them, I actually studied”

“I can’t believe Saylor was a chemistry major”

“Yeah, nobody can I can’t iine why,” I finished dryly “She realized that while she loved chemistry, it was a waste of money because she knew she’d never leave White Peak So she dropped out, got a full-ti with us off-campus until the year was done”

“She didn’t come home?”

“Why would she? What would she have done?”

“I soet how joined at the hip you three are”

“We’re not joined at the hip,” I lied “Well, not soApparently they need tiether”

“Does it get in the way of your book club?”

“I don’t like the way you said that”