Chapter 8
In the morning, Carolyn woke first. She managed to slip out from under his arm without waking him and got dressed. She had to get back to her dorm. She had class. And besides that, as great as Gabe seemed to be, she had to focus on school. And she had enough going on with Sam and his crap, too. She didn’t want to bring someone else into the mess of her life. Especially not when he was in such a horrible place himself. She was happy to talk with him, to help him out, even sleep with him now and then, but there could be no relationship. And he needed to focus on football anyway.
Before she left the room, she dug around and found a scrap of paper in his trashcan. On it, she wrote, “Stay strong. Call if you need me. Remember, if you don’t start living, you’re just as dead as your b
