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College—JuniorYear
Six Months Later
My phone ringing wakes me up.
Carolina.
It’s after midnight.
We haven’t talked today. Hell, even though we still talk almost daily, it’s not like it used to be. I’m losing her to this secret douche bag she’s dating, who she’ll tell me nothing about. Even Margie is clueless to her new boy toy.
She put a passcode on her phone, but considering I know everything about her, I figured it out. I crossed personal boundaries and went through her text messages. His Contact was saved underJames—like that’s easy to narrow down.
I shuddered as I read through a fewsextmessages,and just as I was hitting his Contact information, Carolina walked back into the room.
I haven’t gone through her phone since. It only makes me sick to my stomach, thinking about her talking to him.
“Hello?” I hurriedly answer.
“Hey,” she says on the other line.
I jump out of bed the moment I hear her sobs through the phone.
“I’m outside your dorm. Can I come in?” she asks.
I don’t stay at my dorm much because I fucking hate it. I like my personal space. I only have class a few days a week and normally commute back and forth from my apartment in Blue Beech, but lately—maybe because it’s my worry over Carolina—I’ve been sleeping here the past two weeks. She’s changed—ditching me, dodging my calls, even Margie said she doesn’t come home some nights. Margie called last weekend and said she left with a suitcase, and no one heard from her all weekend.
“I’m coming,” I rush out, pulling on a pair of shorts, not bothering with a shirt or shoes.
I run down the hallway and stairs. I throw open the door and find her standing outside in the rain.
Fuck!
She runs into my arms, and I wrap them around her while walking her inside. She’s soaked and shaking as she cries in my arms in the lobby.
“What’s going on?” I ask, trembling in anger and fear. “What the fuck happened? Did someone hurt you?”
She buries her face in my neck. “Not here,” she whispers in my ear.
I hoist her up, and she wraps her legs around my waist while I take us upstairs. I left my door unlocked, so I walk in and set her down on my bed, keeping the light off.
“Lina babe, what’s going on?” I ask, a knot in my throat. Every muscle in my body is tense. “Did someone hurt you?”
“Yes,” she answers in a whisper.
“What?” The knot thickens.
“It’s not like that,” she says, sensing my anger. “No one …hurt me, hurt me.” She covers her face with her hands. “This is embarrassing.”
“I can take embarrassing.” I reach up and move the hands from her face, running my finger along her jaw, wiping away drops of rain and tears. “Tell me.”
She sniffles, looking away from me. “You have to promise not to judge me … or get mad.”
“Lina, you know I’ll never judge you for shit. I’ll have your back, no matter what.”
She inhales a deep breath and then breaks my fucking heart.
