What Doesn't Kill You by Jo Ho

Author:Jo Ho [Ho, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jo Ho
Published: 2018-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The library was a historical wonder with its towering stained glass windows and stone columns that had admirers coming from miles around to study in awe — but Eve wasn’t one of them.

She sat at a desk in the corner with her back to the windows and their amazing rainbow colored views, two of her laptops running.

Needing to regroup, she played World of Warcraft on one laptop, while she worked on her own game, a puzzler that relied on the laws of gravity and physics, on the other. Her hope was to finish it before she graduated and upload it to Steam for sale.

Many other indie game developers had gotten their start to the industry in the same manner, and Eve was determined that it would be the same for her.

Whenever she was coding or gaming, she was in her happy place. Alone with only her laptops and virtual friends for company, all of whom she didn’t know IRL (In Real Life), she didn’t have to deal with people and their “funny” looks or judgment. Online, she could just be.

And she’d needed to recover after bumping into those girls.

They were the reason why with just one look at Tyler, she had known they couldn’t be roommates: Tyler was a rich white girl, just like her ex-friends.

Yes, she’d only had the one box with her at the time, but the rest were obviously on their way or being shipped from God knows where. She knew it in Tyler’s designer fringe and lowlights, distressed hipster clothing and the latest slimline MacBook that she saw on the bed which Eve could only dream of owning. It had only come off the line earlier in the year and could power several of her RAM busting apps in parallel, but Tyler would never know what it was capable of as Eve knew she would only use it for word processing.

She looked like every one of those girls Eve had been desperate to be friends with before, the popular girls she had allowed to torture and demean her just so she could breathe the same air…

And the very ones who had dropped her when she had needed them the most.

She was tired of trying now, she already knew where that road would take her. It was especially pointless as the whole “living in a dorm” thing had been Si’s brainchild. He wanted her to experience regular school life again, especially after the thing-that-happened that had caused her to flunk her first year. Wasn’t it enough that she was willing to redo her school year? Why did he need her to come out of her shell and be her old self again, no matter how much Eve told him that that girl was dead.

She had died last summer.

She was hiding out at the library now, not wanting to deal with Si’s anger at home. Eve figured she’d give him a few hours before heading back, right around the time he would be leaving for the bar where he worked.

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