The text came while I was half asleep on my bed.
Two words.
Come outside.
I sat up.
Then I was off my bed. I pulled on my jacket and Lia looked up from her laptop.
"Where are you going?"
"Connor's," I said, already at the door.
She said something else but I was already in the hallway.
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I pushed through the door to the parking lot and stopped. It was quiet and cool outside. The campus settling into the late night.
He was there.
Leaning against his car, arms crossed, the light catching the line of his jaw. Crisp black shirt that clung to his muscles, the sleeves rolled.
Two weeks of being gone and there he was, standing like it was nothing. Like he hadn't been gone for fourteen days while I checked my phone more than I wanted to admit and sat in lectures taught by someone wh
