So This is Love
By Tuesday morning, the campus hallways buzzed like a hive. Whispers curled around Norah wherever she went, each one adding weight to the already suffocating attention.
“She doesn’t even wear makeup. Can you believe that?” a girl whispered as Norah passed.
“Yeah, and she still looks better than half the senior girls,” another added, half in awe, half in envy.
“I heard she turned down an acting gig in LA because she promised her mom she’d become a nurse,” someone else claimed, their tone dreamy, like they were repeating a fairy tale.