Amelia had slept for less than four hours before the alarm went off, signaling that it was time to wake up and get ready for college. The morning of classes passed in a blur for her; the lack of sleep prevented her from concentrating on anything the professors were teaching, which was terrible because, with all the recent events in her life, she had already missed many topics, and with the end-of-semester exams approaching, she didn’t feel anywhere near prepared to take them. What made everything worse was the fact that she could no longer afford to fail any courses because each failed course required a certain amount of money to retake the following semester, and money was something Amelia couldn’t afford to waste, not even considering what she would earn at the new job Daniel had secured
