Veronica, July 2000
"You didn't have to leave, too," I tell Penny as we exit the university car park. Penny loves school, so now I feel worse that she felt she had to take me home.
"To be honest with you Roni, you're not the only person freaking out right now, I just couldn't show it in front of Lucas but when you said you wanted to go I was grateful for the excuse to leave too" Cool, calm, collected Penny is having her own internal melt down.
"What's going on?"
"I've never been on an actual real date before, Harrison didn't do that kind of stuff, we just met at a party and started hooking up and whenever I pushed for it to be something more, like going out for a meal together, just us, he would tell me I'm being too clingy"
Harrison's behaviour towards Penny reminds me a lot of how
