Summer’s PovI could not stop thinking about what Crew had said.All day. Every lecture, every corridor walk, every time I tried to pay attention to something that actually mattered for my degree. The words just sat there in the back of my head refusing to move.Meet me there after lectures.I was going to have a very difficult semester if this was how it started.I was standing outside after the last session of the day, checking my phone, when someone tapped my shoulder.I turned around.A girl. Bright eyes, natural hair, the easy confidence of someone who introduced themselves to strangers without overthinking it.“Hi,” she said. “I’m Naomi.”“Summer,” I said.“I have been seeing you around today. We are in the same major.” She tilted her head. “I have been looking for someone to walk around campus with. Someone to just, you know, navigate all of this with. Would you want to be friends?”I looked at her for a second.She had an honest face. The kind that did not hide much.“Yeah,” I
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