Deep Blue by Jules Barnard

Author:Jules Barnard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

The next day I do laundry and wait for Jaeger to call or text. Yes, that’s how lame I’ve become. I’m sitting around waiting for a guy to call. Gen’s having an early lunch with Nessa, and Tyler drove to his friend’s place. Not having a car bites now that Gen and I are no longer on the same schedule.

I fold clothes on the bed and glance at the phone every few minutes. It rings, or rather, chimes, and I launch across the bed in a quasi-cartwheel and swipe it off the nightstand.

I take a deep breath and let it out easy. He doesn’t need to know I just sprinted to answer the call. “Hello?” I say calmly.

“Hey, Cali.”

What the hell? “Eric?”

“Surprised?”

“Yeeahh. Kinda.”

“I wanted to check in. See how you’re doing.” He sounds happy, which is pretty annoying. It’s not that I don’t want him happy, but he doesn’t need to rub it in after the way he treated me.

“I’m good, Eric. Everything’s good.”

“Awesome. Things are going well over here too. I finish school at the end of the month and just accepted a job with a start-up in Silicon Valley. Great benefits package, vacation, the works. Some travel, as well. It’s a good opportunity. Lots of room for growth.”

My loser ex has a life and he called to brag? “Good for you, Eric,” I say, attempting to mean it.

“When do you leave for Harvard?” he asks cheerily.

I rub my forehead with a fist. “Uhh, well, I’m not sure. I guess I’m going.” I should go. I need to go if I want a life.

“What do you mean, you guess?” His tone is critical.

“Well … I was sort of considering not attending. I’m not sure it’s the right path for me.”

“Are you insane?” His voice ends on a high pitch. “You’re joking, right?”

What the hell? Eric never cared about my plans. Not until he broke up with me and indicated our different futures was part of the reason. “I was considering deferring or maybe trying something else.” I have no idea what that something else would be, but with Eric acting judgmental, I don’t want to sound like an even bigger loser and admit I don’t have a plan. “In all likelihood, I’ll end up going to law school.”

“Yeah—well, good luck with that,” he says insincerely. “I gotta go. I need to wrap up finals and search for a place on the Peninsula. Me and a couple of buddies are living together. It’s gonna be rad.”

Did he just use the word rad? He got his shit together, so I have to give props for that.

My loser ex and I have switched places. How awesome. Just—fantastic. “Okay, well, congratulations on your new job.”

“Thanks. I’ll see you around.”

Will he? I doubt it. I click off my phone and toss it on the bed, planting my face in the mattress.

Payback is a biiitch.

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