Learning to Fall by Jillian Eaton

Author:Jillian Eaton [Eaton, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00VU1TPDG
Publisher: Bay Horse
Published: 2015-06-08T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Falling

The next two weeks flew by at an alarming rate of speed. Between lectures, grading homework, and preparing for midterms I barely had time to catch my breath, let alone go on a date with Daniel even though he’d asked me out no less than three different times. I felt bad refusing, but as much as I would have liked to go out for dinner or see a movie or try my hand at mini-golfing (something I’d never done), my professional life had officially superseded my personal one. At least until Thanksgiving break. The holidays would be my eye in the center of the storm. Especially since I was planning on remaining in Camden.

I would have liked to have gone home and seen my mother, but since she was still ignoring every attempt I made to contact her (phone calls, emails, and handwritten letters), I thought it best to give her some more time. I knew in her eyes I had committed a terrible transgression, and forgiveness would not come lightly, if it ever came at all.

Panting a bit as I lugged the second of two plastic crates stacked high with reference books I had checked out from the library, I shifted the crate onto my hip and fumbled with my keys before unlocking Roo’s passenger door and carefully setting the second crate on top of the first. “There,” I said, rubbing my hands briskly together as I surveyed the neatly arranged books, already alphabetized by author and organized by time period. “That should do it.”

It was already well past seven o’clock and my car was the last one to leave the parking lot. Roo’s headlights cut a swath of light across one of the dorm buildings as I drove through campus, cutting across the back lot and saving myself five minutes of driving time.

With the exception of one old woman who always walked her overweight pug at precisely 7:15 every night, the streets and the sidewalks were empty. Everyone was inside their houses, staying warm as the temperature outside steadily dropped. It hadn’t snowed yet - despite John’s warning I was looking forward to my first New England snowfall with great anticipation - but the winds sweeping in off the harbor had grown noticeably colder over the past few days and I’d seen more than one person stacking firewood in preparation for Maine’s notoriously long, hard winter.

Pulling into the driveway, I killed the engine and debated the best way to carry the crates of books inside before I ultimately decided to leave them until the morning. Due to a guest lecturer all of the classes had been pushed back to ten, giving me a little extra wiggle room in my schedule.

Grabbing my purse, I walked briskly up the walkway and into the house. Every single light was turned on, but after yelling for Whitney and receiving no response it quickly became apparent my roommate was out. I vaguely recalled her saying she had a date with a soccer coach from a rival team, but I hadn’t realized it was tonight.

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