Adrian had spent the last two hours doing something he had absolutely never done before in his three years at the university: actively researching a girl.
It hadn't been particularly hard to find basic information, given his connections, but it had been surprisingly difficult to find anything genuinely useful. He had eventually cornered Paolo Hart, a journalism student with a known competitive streak who worked at the paper with Mara. Paolo had been eager to impress the basketball captain, leaning casually against the metal lockers in the bustling student union, and had spilled what little he actually knew.
"She's a total ghost, man," Paolo had said, lowering his voice slightly over the din of the hallway. "She transferred here two years ago from some school upstate. Nobody knows why, an
