"Hey, baby. Sorry I didn't come straight here. I wanted to get a shower and cleaned up first." I let go of Gage and looked at Larkin. In Gage's arm, I felt safe and comfortable, but with Larkin, I felt free and wild. He was my unsure, my unknown. He scared the shit out of me. I needed more time. Just a little more time. "It's cool. I figured we could just eat dinner and chill here tonight. I need to start looking through all my books before classes start. This semester is going to kill me." I spent the evening with Gage and Larkin, listening to them talk back and forth while I attempted to read. It really wasn't a lie. I did need to start looking over things before walking in the first day and having no idea what was going on. Being a double major was no easy task. Toss in a new boyfriend, crazy friends, and the lack of study ethic, and I was screwed. No matter what, I would get this for me, for my future. This is something I had to do for me, no one else, but myself. Succeeding with college was something I never imagined just a few years ago, I had come a long way since then and grown so much as a person, failure was not an option for me, no matter what.
