Buffering by Hannah Hart

Author:Hannah Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062457530
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

During my sophomore year I dropped my French classes because I didn’t want to go to France. I realized that if there was any country in the world I wanted to visit, it was Japan. The home of Sailor Moon! So I started taking Japanese classes five days a week so I could apply to study abroad in Japan the following fall.

On the first day of the new semester I sat down in Japanese class and felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around, and the girl behind me complimented my jacket. It was a maroon jacket, made from some sort of sport material, and I felt it was too small for me—too tight across my shoulders and too narrow at my waist. I was used to wearing things that were baggy. When I turned to look at her, it felt even tighter.

“Really? Thanks! I got it from the free pile.”

“What’s a free pile?”

“Oh it’s like this pile of free stuff in the co-op where I live. We are really big on recycling, and when you have something that’s still good but that you don’t need, you just put it in the free pile for someone else.”

“Wow! So it’s like just lots of free clothes?”

“Mostly clothes, yeah, but also other stuff. School supplies, stuff for your room—”

“Like lightbulbs?”

“Ha! Actually no, not those. We have those in the maintenance closet, so if somebody needs one for a personal lamp, I usually just let them have it. Oh, I’m the maintenance manager, by the way, so I have the key.”

“Maintenance manager?” She looked confused; her face was so expressive, and also so pretty. Her features were strong but strongly feminine. It was a little distracting when she spoke because just looking at her was overwhelming my senses.

“Yeah, it’s a position in the co-op . . . like a job? And then my rent is cheaper because it’s a big responsibility that you fill daily, not weekly like the other work shifts. Best part is that it takes a third off the price of my rent. It’s a cool system, a little complicated, but simple when you get the hang of it.”

I felt like I was babbling in another language, neither English nor Japanese. But she actually seemed interested and curious. It was nice.

“I’ve never even heard of the co-ops, to be honest.” She was polite. “But that’s probably because I’m a freshman. I still live in the dorms. I was thinking about becoming an RA next year though.”

“You should definitely move to the co-ops! It’s great! You’d love it!”

“Would I?”

“For sure.”

“And how do you know what I’d love?”

I paused.

“Well, you love this jacket, right?”

She laughed. I felt her eyes lingering on mine. She replied in Japanese, 14

It was incredibly sexy when she spoke like that. Wait, sexy?

I felt as though the wind had been knocked out of my stomach. My shadowboxer had landed a punch.

Class started, and by the end we were officially study buddies for the new semester. Her name

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