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“I’m not a thug. I’ve never even been arrested.”
“What about that girl? The one you like? Does she know about you?”
“Yeah, we went to school together. She had her own problems. Her mom took off and left her when she was a kid. Her aunt took her in. Otherwise, she would’ve ended up in foster care.”
“So the friends you were with today. They’re from your old neighborhood?”
“Yeah, they still live there.”
“If I were you, I’d never want to go back there. Seems like it’d be nothing but bad memories.”
“It doesn’t bother me to go there. It’s where I grew up. To me, it still feels like home. Being here at college, I feel like I don’t fit. Everyone comes from a normal family, a normal home. They wouldn’t understand if I told them how I grew up. That’s why I don’t want people knowing.”
“But then they don’t really know you, right? If you’re pretending to be someone else?”
“I’m not pretending. I’m just not telling them where I came from. They don’t need to know.”
“Yeah, I guess. So these friends of yours, are they dangerous? Have they been to jail? Prison?”
“They’ve all been arrested, but just for minor stuff, like getting busted for underage drinking or stealing shit from a gasstation. I think Troy spent a few nights in jail, but I don’t know what it was for. I’m not really friends with Troy, but he’s always with Sean and Leo, my other friends, so I just put up with him.” I hold up my textbook. “I need to study so…”
“Yeah, got it.” He picks up his phone. “Oh, some girl came by our room looking for you.”
“Who was it?”
“I don’t remember her name. Blond hair. Big tits. Really white teeth.”
“Sounds like Maddy. How’d she know where I live?”
“I don’t know, but if you don’t want her, I’ll take her. She’s fucking hot.”
“She’s in my English class. She wants us to go out after class. What did she say?”
“She just asked if you were here. I told her you left and she took off.”
“I don’t have her number. I guess I’ll just talk to her at class.”
“You’re going out with her, right?”
“I don’t know. It seems too soon. I just got out of a relationship.”
“And spent all day with some other girl.” Rob gets up and takes an energy drink from the mini refrigerator. His parents got it for him. He said I can use it, but I don’t have money for fancy drinks. “You like her, don’t you?” He gulps down some of his drink. “Just admit it.”
“If Tara was single, then yeah, maybe we’d go out. But she’s with Troy, so I don’t know why you keep bringing this up.”
“So forget her. Go out with the blonde. She obviously likes you if she found out where you live and showed up at your door.”
“She’s rich. She drives a Mercedes. You really think she’ll want to go out with me when she finds out I don’t have money? I doubt she’d be okay with me taking her to a fast food place for dinner.”
“Maybe she just wants to use you for your body,” he jokes.
“Yeah, I don’t think so.”
Rob tosses his empty drink can in the trash. “I’m going to go find something to eat. You want anything?”
“No, I need to study.”
When he’s gone, I try to study but my thoughts keep going to Tara. I can’t be doing this. I can’t be falling for her when she’s with Troy. I shouldn’t even be thinking about another girl when I’m still in love with Haley. But when I was with Tara today, I forgot all about Haley. Does that mean I’m over her? Already? It doesn’t seem possible I could move on that fast.
