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Chapter Fifty-Six

The bastard kickedme out of the house. Like for good. I don’t mean for just the day or the weekend or a week. I mean, this morning Logan suggested that maybe I want to sleep in the dorms and get the full college experience and I replied, “Why would I want to give up my comfortable home and share a room barely bigger than a prison cell with a complete stranger?”

He has a good reason why I need to get out of the house. Great even, and he wants me to do it soon. Heck, I don’t blame him. If it were me in his place, I would probably do the same.

Then I imagine me in his place and find myself smiling. Lucky bastard. He’s sure she’s going to agree with him, but I figure I’ll wait to hear the actual words. Maybe I can do the same.

Well, not exactly the same. I don’t think River and I are quite there yet, but I know we will be. I don’t want to freak her out. Baby steps. We can probably just start with a simple swap. Because I’ll need a place to stay and there’s no way I’m staying in a dorm.

Maybe when I was eighteen, but not at twenty-four. I imagine sharing a room with an eighteen-year-old kid and shudder. I’ve seen too much, lived too much to be able to try to fit in with the kids around me. I have made some new friends in my classes, but for the most part it’s superficial. I seem to intimidate other guys. The girls, on the other hand, they don’t get intimidated at all.

Until they see River, that is. One glare from her and they all scurry away. Yesterday she told me I’m too hot for my own good. Best compliment ever.

Part of me can’t believe Logan is popping the question to Skye and part of me can’t believe it took this long. He’s crazy about her. Spends every free minute with her and schedules his shifts around her work and classes. Skye is doing great at the newspaper and going for her master’s at the same time.

River is going for her master’s in Psychology and I’m in my second semester of pre-med, thanks to all the summer classes I took. I love it. But not enough to get a dorm on campus.

If River says no to what I have in mind, I’ll have to scramble to find a place fast.