If I had been a storm of reckless, boiling rage yesterday, today I was as cold and dead as an iceberg.
Kristine and I had completely separate general lecture tracks today, which should have felt like a relief. Instead, it made the suffocating atmosphere ten times worse.
The quiet space between us wasn't peaceful; it was a wall of unspoken words that both of us were too proud to reveal.
We exchanged maybe three sentences in total while walking to our academic buildings. They had been curt, mechanical words delivered without a single drop of eye contact, just before we split off in opposite directions down the main quad. Frayer, being an advanced senior, had already left minutes ago to meet up with his classmates for early drills, leaving me completely on my own with the party barbie ver
