Broken Together by Cassie Beebe

Author:Cassie Beebe [Beebe, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cassie Beebe
Published: 2019-12-06T22:00:00+00:00

JACOB HAD OFFICIALLY MADE it through half of his first semester of college.

It was Friday morning, and he found himself actually looking forward to the bonfire at the pond that evening, a celebration of making it through midterms alive. He knew Jenna would be there, and although things with him and Callie had been a bit awkward for the past few weeks, since he rejected her feelings for him, she had mentioned Monday, after their successful presentation in Psychology, that she and Angela would be making an appearance at the party that weekend as well.

But before all of that, there was the Academic Fair.

Every year, on the Friday after midterms week, the gym was transformed with lines and lines of booths for every major available in the academic catalog. Each booth had information on the subject, like what kinds of jobs you could expect to pursue should you choose to get your degree in said major, and each department put together a twenty-minute introductory class for any students who wanted to go the extra mile in preparing for next semester’s courses.

Jenna was not one of those students. Since she was a Junior, and the Academic Fair was geared toward Freshman, Jacob had asked her about it that morning, to try to get an idea of what to expect.

“I wouldn’t know. I didn’t go,” she had shrugged, stretching her legs before their morning run.

Running with Jenna had become a nearly daily occurrence. Once she had mentioned that he should join her on a run sometime, they had started jogging together. It started out as an occasional thing, but eventually they began running together almost every morning before class. Jacob would have been embarrassed by his lack of athleticism, if it weren’t for the fact that Jenna was always huffing and puffing even more than he was. But whether due to good discipline or plain stubbornness, when Jenna set her mind to something, she stuck with it.

After a few weeks of the routine, Jacob could make it through their entire route around campus with no shin pain and only minimal wheezing, which he considered quite an accomplishment.

“Why didn’t you go?” he asked, watching the way her back arched as she reached toward her toes. “You’re doing that wrong, by the way.”

“What? How do you know?” she asked.

“I watched a YouTube video.”

“Oh, wow, sorry,” she put up her hands in defeat. “I didn’t realize you were an expert.”

“Apology accepted. You’re supposed to keep your back straight,” he explained, reaching down in demonstration. “Like this.”

“What was I doing?” she asked, repeating the same arched stretch as before.

“You’re bending your back too much,” he explained, placing a hand on her lower back, and gently pulling her shoulders up to a straightened position. “Feel the difference?”

Her muscles tensed under his touch, and she stood up and stepped aside. “Yeah, I got it,” she said, fixing the bobby pin that held her bangs away from her face. “Geez, why is it so hot out here? Isn’t is

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