Twenty-Two: RoseIt might have been the best first day of school ever. There were colored tabs and pens and Post-It notes involved. Jared's super-human immunity to caring about what anyone else thought was also sort of contagious. The hand-holding and the book-carrying felt like we'd been together a long time. It made me want to ask Judith to do a past life regression with me to see how I knew him before. It wasn't a question of if, just when. Beyond Reed and Rowyn, I'd never had a connection where I just felt like I was in the right place at the right time- like we served a purpose.
I was daydreaming pretty happily when I walked into lunch, imagining Jared and me in the twenties, or in ancient Greece in a temple of Athena or something. Then I saw Rowyn's face, and her eyes were lit up wit
