However, the second day he worked out for them, he went back into a little freeze. I didn’t know if it was nerves or what, but as I sat in the hotel room and watched his performance, I could have jumped through the tube and choked him. He had it in him—I couldn’t understand why he froze. And when he came to me, he was so distraught. I’ll never forgethim saying how bad he’d messed up our future. I told him to calm down. We were just college students. Sure, he was about to graduate, be in the world, start his life, but I was still had a couple more years of college left. I wanted to go to New York and intern, work with some top fashion designers. Really spread my wings before I even thought about settling down. I didn’t want him to put everything in me, and when I told him that, our communication just sort of shut down. We barely spoke our entiretrip back. “Okay, we’re at your girls’ house,” he said in a bitter tone when we arrived to Torian and Loni’s place. “I know, but I was hoping maybe we could talk a little longer.”
