Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous by Mae Marvel

Author:Mae Marvel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Chapter Eleven

Wil stood up from the creaky leather chair in Sam’s office, unable to sit there for one more second waiting for Sam and Cord to finish reading her law school file.

Cord laughed. He leaned forward to put his copy of the file down on Sam’s desk. “You want to know what we think of these application materials.”

“Yes.” Wil had moved around to the back of the chair so she had something to hold on to. “Please.”

Cord crossed his ankle over his knee and settled back with a particularly loud creak. “I think if I’d had your chances when I graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a transcript you had to squint at to see the potential, I would’ve been ordering rounds for my friends. But you look like most people do when they’re coming to deal with a dead relative’s probate.”

Wil squeezed the chair again so she wouldn’t sigh or roll her eyes. Or run away. It was difficult to subject herself to this kind of scrutiny. It had been extremely difficult to call Sam and Cord to ask for this meeting—to take up their time on a Saturday, to accept the help they’d generously offered.

But she was trying to find her way out of the tangle she’d gotten herself into, and she understood that she was going to need other people’s assistance to beat a path through the overgrown mess of it.

She made herself say the thing that was bothering her the most. “I’ve talked to four people from as many law schools in three different states in the last twenty-four hours.” Wil’s chest was tight. “It turns out that all of them knew my dad, even though he’d spent all but three years of his career here in Green Bay, Wisconsin.” Wil picked up her folder from the corner of Sam’s desk and tucked it into her bag beside her laptop. “It’s a lot.”

“Sure.” Cord nodded. “But you’re not on this earth to replace your dad one-to-one.”

Now it was Wil’s turn to nod as though she knew this.

She did know. Knowing it wasn’t the same thing as feeling it, it turned out.

“What’s interesting,” Cord went on, “is you and Jasper have both told me the same thing. You said it in this draft of an application essay—that people will always ask for less for themselves than what they’ll ask for on behalf of someone else. That it’s easier to fight someone else’s fight, and it feels good to fight a good fight. That the law solves problems other institutions can’t, so you better get there first with a worthwhile problem before someone uses it to do harm.”

Wil blinked. She hadn’t understood herself to be saying any of that, but on the other hand, it sounded correct. It was why she’d once spent a long weekend poring over the TikTok terms of service—because she wanted to be in a position of knowing what she had and what she could ask for.

“Your paper,” Sam broke in. “The one you wrote

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