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Shanna was getting ready for

Shanna was getting ready for another night out when we came back from dinner. She was freshly showered and sitting in front of her closet door full-length mirror, putting on eye makeup.“Don’t mind me, I’m just getting ready and going back out.”“Are you sure?” I asked, kind of hoping she would stick around and I could use her as a buffer. “I don’t want to make you – ”“Naaah, it’s cool. I actually like the guy I hooked up with last night. We’re gonna go get trashed and then go back to his place again.”“Wow. Classy,” Kevin sneered.Shanna glared at him in the mirror. “ORRR, on second thought, I could just hang out here with YOU all night.”Kevin blanched. “Sorry.”“Tell her thank you,” I prompted him.“Thank you,” he said, with a good dose of sincerity.“Yeah, you better thank me,” Shanna muttered as she went back to putting on eyeliner. “We both know Kaitlyn’s too straight-laced to fuck with somebody else in the room, so the only reason you’re gettin’ some is ‘cause I’m gettin’ some

Kevin texted at 1am

Kevin texted at 1AM. Considering stops to refuel, go to the bathroom, and grab food, he’d made pretty good time.Got in safe.Good, I texted back. Okay drive?Terrible… but I had good memories to help me.I smiled and texted back a smiley face.Shanna asleep?Yes, I texted, even though it wasn’t true. She was up cramming for a test the next morning, music blaring through her earbuds.Okay… go to bed.Already there.Thinking of me? he asked with a winking smiley face.Of course, I texted back, with another winking smiley.Did I wake you?I lied again.I was dozing, waiting for your text.I didn’t want to tell him that I’d been lying in bed for the last three hours, hoping to hear a knock on the door.Okay, go to sleep, he answered.. You too.I love you.Love you too.That was it for the texts, though I still couldn’t sleep for another hour.The knock on the door never came.Not until Monday evening, that is.I was studying and glancing at my cell phone every ten minutes when I heard t

I barely slept that

I barely slept that night. I was frantic that I would never see him again – and I chastised myself endlessly for even caring.But Derek was good as his word. He came by the next day at four o’clock sharp.When he showed up, he was his old self, laughing and teasing and grinning. Shanna was there, and she told him all about how she’d covered for me. Derek joked with her about it, though he never mentioned shocking the living daylights out of me with the whole coming over to have Shanna ‘rock his world’ incident.I was thankful for that, at least.Derek and I went and played pool at the student center. The entire time we kept up an easy banter back and forth. He had an incredible way of putting me at ease; it was like the previous night had never happened.But of course, it had. And we both knew it.I wanted to say, Aren’t we going to talk about last night?But I was afraid to talk about it.And I was even more afraid to hear him say, What’s there to talk about?So I just let sleeping d

Exams approached

Exams approached fast. I tried to study as much as possible, but Derek was a constant distraction – and one I hungered for. He stopped by every day, and I could never say no. He didn’t try to kiss me, he didn’t try to do anything… but just being with him was enough to make me lightheaded. I waited for that knock every day like a starving prisoner waits for his daily rations… and it was like a seven-course meal with a bottle of champagne when I heard it and opened the door to his gorgeous smile.Finally, though, it all came crashing down.He stopped by one evening later than usual, after 8 o’clock. “Good news – I got the next three nights off from work.”I groaned. I knew he’d done it for me – I was leaving for home after finals – but the fear of God (and of a C in my classes) had finally crept into me. I had a three-hour exam in English the next morning, with half devoted to multiple choice, and half to an essay on an unknown topic.“I can’t do anything tonight… I have to study for my

my eyes snapped

My eyes snapped open, and panic and guilt blasted through me. What the FUCK are you doing, Kaitlyn?!I pushed Derek off me with a jolt of adrenaline so powerful it took us both by surprise. He toppled backwards onto his ass, a look of shock on his face. I scrambled upright and snatched up a bunch of crinkled notes, then stared at them with an intensity people usually reserve for notices of foreclosure and bad medical reports.Except I don’t think most people in that situation have faces red as a tomato and hot as a coal.The door swung open and Shanna entered, groaning as she dumped her backpack on the floor. “OH MY GOD, my paper’s finally done and emailed and I want a drink so BAD – ”She stopped in her tracks, her mouth open, as she actually looked into the room for the first time. What she saw was Derek on my bed, sprawled out on his ass and propping himself up with his hands, and me completely ignoring him as I stared intently at a fistful of paper. Oh, and my face probably looke

As soon as Derek

As soon as Derek left, the fun really started.“OH MY GOD what were you up to?!” Shanna squealed.“Nothing,” I insisted. My blushing, which had started to die down, returned with a vengeance.“OH MY GOD you were totally gonna bone him, weren’t you?!”“NO!” I shouted, sick to my stomach.But what I did was bad enough.“Dude is packing some serious heat,” Shanna said, and turned her head back to the hallway as though she could see around the corner and down the hallway if she tried hard enough.“Shanna – ”“I mean, I’ve seen bigger, but not attached to a bod like that – ”“Shanna – ”“I mean, not outside of pornos, anyway – ”“SHANNA, would you please stop talking about his thing?” I hissed.“I’m not talking about his thing, I’m talking about his cock,” she said, relishing my discomfort.“Then just stop talking, okay?”She belly-flopped on her bed and then grinned at me like we were at a sleepover. “What’d you do with him?” she asked as she doubled her pillow under her chin to prop up h

PRESENT DAY

I sat there at our table in the lounge, listening to Shanna order some specialty off-menu cocktail, and thought about everything that had happened between us in that dorm room four years ago.Once she was finished, I told the waiter, “Just a glass of merlot, please.”“Jeez, you’re a cheap date,” Shanna said as the waiter walked off.“I don’t have as much money as you.”“I told you, I’m buyin’ first round. You shoulda got champagne to celebrate. Maybe not Cristal, but…”“Mm.”Life had gone well for Shanna over the last four years. Her parents hadn’t let her go back to UGA, so she’d gone to community college, just like she’d predicted. And then she’d flunked out of there, too. Too much partying, too much living life like it was her last day on earth.However, her other… skills had led to more interesting prospects. She slept with an up-and-coming (pun intended) fashion photographer and ended up in a relationship with him. Because she didn’t have anything else going on, he took her on as

FOUR YEARS AGO

A couple hours after Shanna and I made up, the company that rented us our tiny dorm refrigerator came by and picked it up. There were two guys, and they went from room to room wheeling out the fridges on hand trucks as people packed up to go home.Then, an hour after that, Derek stopped by with Ryan in tow.“Oh my God!” Shanna squealed, and pushed a lock of her hair back flirtatiously. “It’s so good to see you!”“Good to see you, too,” Ryan said nervously, then looked at me. “Hi, Kaitlyn.”“Hey, Ryan.” I turned to Derek. “What are you two doing here?”“Well… I knew you were leaving after your exam, and I knew that was this morning, so… how’d it go, by the way?”“I think I did pretty well, actually. I think.”“Good.” He smiled, and his eyes twinkled. “So all that studying last night paid off.”Shanna snorted.I blushed.Ryan looked around, confused. “What’s… what’s the joke?”“No joke,” I said quickly. “There’s no joke. Soooo… did you come by to – ”“When are you leaving?” Derek interr

PRESENT DAY

Two more rounds later, we stepped tipsily out of the Forum. Shanna immediately began scanning for taxis. One came down the street and she hailed it.“You comin’ with me?” she asked.“No, I’m going to take the subway back.”“I can give you a ride – ”“Naah, it’s just a couple blocks that way.”The taxi drove up to the curb in front of her.“So, are you going to go do it?” Shanna called out as she opened the rear door.“…yeah,” I said grudgingly.She threw her arms up in the air in a giant ‘V’.“YES! Shanna Williams for the win!” she yelled to all of New York City, then turned back to me. “Let me know how it goes!”“Yeah, yeah,” I grinned, and started off down the street.She started to get in, then stopped and hollered, “Hey – wait – I know you didn’t sleep with him, but you never told me what happened after I left that day!”I turned around and yelled, “Read the fuckin’ article!”“You bitch!” she laughed, then got in the taxi and sped away.I called Rolling Stone the next morning. The

FOUR YEARS AGO

Derek walked me back to my room. Neither of us said much on the way up the stairs. I was seriously nervous; he was Mr. Calm, Cool, and Unruffled.“You need help packing?” he asked.“Um… I guess…”I unlocked the door and we stepped inside. Shanna’s half of the room was stripped bare – metal-frame bed, old mattress, empty wooden desk. I felt lonelier just looking at it.“Can I ask you a favor?” Derek asked.“Um… depends on what the favor is…”“Can you not leave today, and just stay one more night?” he asked, staring into my eyes.“I… I told my parents I’d be back today…”“I’m probably never going to see you again once you leave. Could you please, please just stick around one more night and give me some more time with you?”One more night.The phrase made me weak in the knees.Maybe from how many times I’d heard it in love songs.“…please,” he whispered.All the little voices in my head were screaming, No! Don’t! Bad idea!But the feelings in my body were saying something else entirely.

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