London woke up slowly the next morning. She was tired from having stayed up late researching degrees and cities. Tuck had introduced her to the idea of Tucson but now that the idea was planted, it occurred to her why limit herself? There were lots of warm places to live and she could move to any of them. Most places there were colleges there would be openings for bartenders, the logic just followed, so she could go anywhere. She’d been up until almost dawn looking up different places as they occurred to her Texas, Louisiana, a couple places in California, and learning about what living and going to school in each one, might be like.
Now, she staggered into the bathroom and turned on the shower. She stripped out of the oversized t-shirt she used as a night gown and stepped under the still
