ISLA
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It had been more than a week since my birthday party ended and today was my first day back at college. I’d been putting it off, convincing myself I could ignore the outside world but classes didn’t stop and deadlines wouldn’t wait for me. I couldn’t exactly disappear forever since it was my last year in school and I had less than two months left.
Exams were coming up, and while sometimes, I just wanted to forget about school, one thing my parents wanted from me was a degree.
I walked into the lecture hall, backpack on one shoulder. I hadn’t seen Sophia in the parking lot nor had I seen her in the hallways. I didn’t even know if I wanted to see her or not. She’d asked me for space. Was a week enough?
As though my thoughts conjured her up, she appeared at the door. Her eyes s
