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New York City
March 9, 2013
New York City was loud.
It shouldn’t have been that different than Boston, but somehow, it was. And I never wanted to leave.
It had taken a miracle for me to get my entire spring break off. The lab had only wanted to give me the first weekend, but Derek had insisted we’d be gone the whole time. I never took time off, and so I’d asked for what I wanted, and they’d granted it, albeit begrudgingly. Now, I was here with him, and things were unreal.
Derek’s interview had been this morning. I’d been all alone in his friend’s house, which was actually an enormous two-story penthouse on top of Percy Towers.
I hadn’t yet met Camden Percy, but the house was larger than life. I’d never seen this much luxury in my life. Not even Derek’s house back home was this fa
