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Eliza tilts her head to think “North Liberty is just southeast of school, I think?” She points at the wall above the stove “About fifteen or twenty minutes away”

I pick at the cheese again “Has he ever lived on campus before, or has he always commuted?”

“He’s always commuted”

“Shit, for real?” That sounds hideous “I can’t iain, my mother is certifiable”

“I love my parents, but I wouldn’t want to live at home, either” She plucks a cherry to “That’s why I moved this far”

“Exactly I’h that I still get in-state tuition”

God, I can’t ile day

It would be like…being trapped in hell with no escape

“How does he study?”

Eliza shrugs “You’ll have to ask him that”

We’re silent for a few minutes as we pick at the food in the center of the counter, and I put mayonnaise on a croissant sandwich (and a little bit ofdown

I’s, and Eliza notices

“Are you sure you’re going to be okay?”

“Eliza—I’ll be fine” I sranted, it’s the first rodeo where the stallion didn’t stop hiedly” I add an eye roll for good measure

She snorts out a laugh “That was seriously the worst analogy”

“Sorry, that’s the best one I could cooing to take some time for ood, being single for a while and focusing on me and what I want”

Eliza nods along “I think that’s a great idea”

“I’ve always had a boyfriend” I hate ad fros off with me Relationship jumper—isn’t that what it’s called?

Yeah…that’s me

E in relationships The probleuys who haven’t grown up yet and don’t knohat they want Spoiled guys with egos Popular, good-looking men o them to seek attention in every which direction

That’s been

So is me