Flawless//Broken

Author:Sara Wolf [Wolf, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00XYWRTDW
Publisher: Sara Wolf Books
Published: 2015-05-18T23:00:00+00:00

PART TEN

TEN

Chapter 10

TEN

I can barely keep up with Ellie as she zooms around USF’s campus, fueled by two espresso shots and a danish we grabbed on the way here. I follow her up and down grand flights of white stairs flanked by date palms and perfectly trimmed hedges. The crow of new and old students mixes, making me anxious. It’s been a year since I’ve been around this many people my age. I try to keep my head down, irrationally nervous some of them will recognize me as the drop-out I am.

“C’mon!” Ellie grabs my hand, leading me towards a sleek glass building laced by iron beams, the sun slanting through the glass and throwing off a blinding glare. People clutch books and bags to their chests, shuffling between classes with half-wary, half-weary looks. The smell of pencils and heavy carpet cleaner fills my nose as Ellie opens the building door for me. She shoves a brochure in my hand and looks up at the second floor.

“I really wanna catch the end of Applied Computer Science. I’ll meet you back here in ten minutes, okay?”

“I could come with you?” I offer, nerves cracking my voice as I step out of a tall, green-haired woman’s way.

“Applied. Computer. Science.” Ellie repeats. I wrinkle my nose and she laughs, patting my shoulder. “I’ll be right back. Promise. Find a bench or something.”

I flop on said bench and watch her leave. When she’s gone, my last tether to sanity leaves too, and I’m left with all my old insecurities. These kids are younger than me, smarter than me. If they aren’t younger they’re the same age, and leagues ahead of me in terms of intelligence - after all, they stayed in school. I don’t belong here. I look at the trees outside, instead. They’re lovely and huge. I forgot how dignified college campuses look - and how well-cared for they are by the groundskeepers. It’s like a work of art.

I spot an orange blur in that work of art - a tabby cat being cooed over by a group of girls under a tree, their studying completely forgotten as they pet the cat and scratch his smug little chin. I snort. I texted Lake that we’d be here today, just so he’d know. Turns out he’s still a pervert, even in cat form.

In the corner of my eye I see a flash of white-gold hair, and my every nerve goes on point. There’s no way - that can’t be who I think it was. I stand, and follow the long hall it disappeared down. People jostle me on their way to class, but I duck around them just in time to see the hair vanish into room 115.

I stand on my tiptoes to look through the door’s small window, but all I can see is a auditorium of sleepy faces as people sit in their desks, waiting for the orientation to begin. I open the door and slink into a seat behind everyone else. The teacher isn’t here yet.

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