LUNCH TIME TURNED OUT to be hours away. So many hours away. I didn’t know how it was possible, but time moved slowly. Rarely did that happen at a library of all places. And yet, I couldn’t help but feel sluggish.
Everything was put away, so I didn’t have much of an opportunity to throw myself into work, and on top of that, barely any students came inside to ask questions. Under normal circumstances, I would have pulled out a book and started reading since I had so many to select from, so many books filled with new information I wasn’t as familiar with as I would like to be, but I couldn’t get my mind to focus on the words. That had never happened to me before.
By the time the clock ticked around to one in the afternoon, I had my bag packed and I was at the door waiting for Christian to a
