4
EDITH
By the time I arrived in New Haven I was tired and exhausted.
The flight had been delayed for forty-five minutes, my neighbour had been clucking her tongue non-stop due to an annoying tic, and my mind had not ceased thinking about Jake for a moment.
I looked at the time. Jessie, my roommate, must have already left for work at the pub downstairs. I didn't have much of a relationship with her. She wasn't the kind of girl I confided my secrets to and more times we bickered about her passion for loud heavy metal music than anything else.
Was it so difficult to use headphones to listen to music without disturbing the whole neighbourhood?
Sighing with relief, I opened the door.
I dragged my trolley inside through the living room, which overlooked the
