TAYLOR
I watch as Arlin approaches River. The music in the hall is so loud that even though they are just a few feet away, I can't hear a single word that they are saying. Arlin was a notorious playboy in school, and seeing him try to play his way into River's life was annoying, and I could not place a finger on the reason it was annoying to me.
I watch them walk to the door and then disappear out of the hall. Why did it bother me what she did? She was a big girl capable of thinking for herself, but I knew Arlin very well; he preyed on the first years and then went in to date them. He wasn't looking for a girlfriend, maybe a nerd who would be needy and cling to him; it made him feel like a superstar, almost as if he had achieved something in life.
"I will be back," I whisper to Hendrix,
