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“Finally found the right combo of soap and alcohol to get the job done,” she says, patting it dry. She gestures at my hands and arm. “Your turn.”
“No,” I say with sagging shoulders. “Jenna, I just want to go home.”
“Go home?” she repeats. “We can’t go home! The party just started.”
“Did you miss the part where Seth is out there?”
She shrugs. “So, we’ll avoid him. Come on, this is the biggest party of the year!”
“We’re like two weeks into the semester,” I argue. “There will be other parties.”
Jenna sighs. My phone vibrates in my hand.
Hello?
It’s Drew again. Ignore it.
Someone pounds on the locked door.
“Occupied!” Jenna shrieks, making it stop. “Heidi, please. I know you’re feeling a little… discouraged…”
“Understatement.”
“But it’ll pass! You can’t let one party foul ruin a good night. You just got to roll with it. And you promised to do whatever I told you to do tonight, so suck it up.”
Again, my phone vibrates.
Seth wants to talk to you.
Oh, hell no.
“Look,” I say as I stand, “you can stay but I’m going home.”
Jenna squints at my phone. “Who is texting you?”
“Nobody,” I answer. “It’s just Uber.”
She deflates. “What do I have to do to make you change your mind right now?”
“Jenna, I’m sorry, but I’m tired and these shoes are uncomfortable and I honestly feel like I’m about to burst into tears at any moment, so no, I don’t think you or anyone else will make me change my mind about this right now. I’ll see you at home.”
I open the bathroom door.
“There you are!”
I stumble a step back.
Drew.
He smiles at me. The sheer force of it sends a shock wave through my knees.
“Hey, Seth!” he shouts down the hallway. “She’s in here!”
Never mind.
Dimples be damned.
“Excuse me,” I say, attempting to squeeze past him into the hall.
