◆◆◆ Chapter 3 ◆◆◆ I lasted three days before I texted him. The words felt impossible to type: “Page five. The library. Tonight at closing.” His response was immediate: “I’ll be there.” The graduate library closed at midnight on weekends, and I’d written in my diary about how the fourth floor was always deserted after ten, how the study carrels in the back created a maze of privacy, how the thought of being taken there, where I’d spent so many lonely nights studying while everyone else was out living, held a certain poetic justice. I arrived at 11:30. He was already there, sitting in the exact carrel I’d described, reading my diary again. “You’re early,” I said, my voice barely audible. “So are you.” He set the diary down, his eyes traveling over me, from the dress I’d changed into three times, the heels I never wore, to the confidence I was desperately faking. “Nervous?” “Terrified,” I admitted. “Good.” He stood, closing the distance between us. “You wrote that you wanted to
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