I had no freaking choice.
Tully thought it was a great idea, you know, give me a chance to see the school and hopefully convince me that this scholarship is the right way to go. I mean, I don’t need much convincing. All their arguments are too good and all my excuses are complete shit.
Noah’s right, I’d be a fool not to give this my all. This could mean a future that I never thought possible for myself. I can just see it now, the first Haven Falls girl to make something of herself. Well, I guess that’s not fair. Many of the women from Haven Falls have been successful, but I doubt any of them have done it with a college degree.
The more I’ve been thinking about it, the more I feel that Tully should be giving the whole college thing a crack too. She could do a business degree which would give her all the tools to make her floristry business a raging success. She could take an online floristry course, learn a little about marketing and communications, maybe even a little bookkeeping course, and she’d be set.
Me, though? College? Wow.
Henley Meadow Bronx; Professor. Yeah, I freaking like it.
The more I think about it, the more I want it and that’s kind of scaring the shit out of me.
Damn it. I have to start thinking about something else before I send myself crazy. I loop my arm through Tully’s. “You need to distract me,” I tell her. “All this college bullshit is going to make me scream and it’s not going to be pretty.”
Tully scoffs. “You really think I’m capable of distracting you without bringing up Rivers or Rocko right now?”
“Good point,” I laugh. “What did the boys end up doing tonight?”
“I don’t know,” she shrugs. “You’d have a better idea than I would. I haven’t heard from either of them since school. My guess is that Noah went looking for Rivers, and Rivers is hiding out somewhere to avoid explaining what the fuck that was all about.”
“Good point,” I say, pulling my phone out once again to find nothing from Noah. I haven’t spoken to him since we left school. He dropped me off at his place assuming Tully was there and went to go find Rivers, but that was hours ago.
If he found him and managed to get anything out of him, I’d dare say the two boys are covered head to toe in blood and bruises. If he hasn’t found him, Noah will be at home, punching holes in walls as his mind goes over all the possibilities of what would have made Tully say something like that.
Not freaking good.
Noah’s probably going through all kinds of hell right now and I’m here, about to watch some stupid football game. Great girlfriend I am.
Well, to be honest, I doubt we’ll be watching anything. We’ve been walking around this damn campus for twenty minutes and still haven’t found the stadium. Maybe neither of us are smart enough to go to college after all.
I hear the roar of the crowd. In fact, we’ve been hearing it since we got here. I assumed we’d park the car and follow the crowd, but we must have parked in the wrong place because there sure as hell isn’t a crowd to follow.
A call comes through on my phone and I glance down to find Kaylah’s name written across the screen. I answer almost instantly.
“Are you guys still coming?” she yells down the line, probably struggling to hear with the noise of the crowd behind her.
“Yeah,” I say, hoping I’m speaking loud enough for her. “We’ve been here a while. I think we’re lost.”
A chuckle comes out of her. “Really?” she questions with amusement deep in her voice.
“Yes,” I groan before looking around at where we are. “We’re on campus. Out front of the Macquarie Library.”
“Shit,” she laughs. “Why the hell are you there? You’re completely in the wrong place.” Kaylah gives us a few directions and I start pulling Tully in the opposite direction before ending the call with Kaylah.
After another ten minutes of walking, we finally find the stadium, and it is fucking huge.
How could we have missed this?
We head for the ticket booth and get ourselves sorted before making our way inside the huge stadium. My mouth drops open. This is freaking incredible.
Pride surges through me. This is all Jackson has ever talked about and he did it. He made it to the big leagues and I don’t doubt that by the end of college, he’ll be leaving with a contract to the NFL. He’s just that good.
Tully and I make our way up the massive grandstand, still following the directions Kaylah had given us. She’s saved some seats for us amongst her friends, wanting us to have the absolute best time of our lives.