When I step outside I want to cry. My new car is still parked on Main Boulevard, two miles away. And my old car, it appears, was towed. "You really hate me, don't you," I point to the setting moon, hoping the Goddess can hear me. Looking up and down the street, I sprint to the express bus going to campus. By the time I make it to my class, the room is empty. Letting my body slide down the wall, I put my head on my knees and cry. I can't do anything right. I'm failing at love, life, and school. Nothing is going the way I thought it would when I finally got out here on my own. I had a plan, I had saved and worked, and for what? "Oh, there you are?" "Go away," I grumble not wanting to speak to anyone. "Not going to happen," Thorne's cheerful voice calls out as he takes a seat next

