ARIA For some reason, I can't stop thinking about my interaction with Ryder, and it's getting on my nerves. I have nothing else to do for the rest of the day, so I pack the medical kit, get everything cleaned up, and head out. I intend to go home because there's no reason for me to hang around the university. I don't have friends, and Uncle Barty gets too busy to pay any mind to me. Besides, things between us are pretty rough right now. I get his point. Now, more than ever. I don't want to find myself in the kind of trouble that'll be impossible to get out of, and Ryder Drexel's motives for helping me aren't convincing. What if this is all an elaborate plot of his? I don't know him at all. It would be foolish to assume that he has the best intentions where I'm concerned and tha

