Chapter 23Rory closed his notebook for the last time that night. At least, he hoped. He’d been telling himself that for the past four nights in a row, but now he was more determined than ever before to leave his books behind. What else did he, truly, need to learn at this point in time? He’d been in constant contact with his supervisor, Mikayla, and the admin staff of the English Department, and all of them were telling him to simply stop trying at this point in time.
I know you’re going to be the A+ person no matter what I say, Mikayla wrote in her latest text message. But you can stop now. You’ve done it. Already narfled the Garthok and all of that.
Rory had appreciated her old-time reference to the 1990s comedy film Coneheads, but when he went to watch it by himself at night as a way
