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FOUR YEARS AGO

Derek walked me back to my room. Neither of us said much on the way up the stairs. I was seriously nervous; he was Mr. Calm, Cool, and Unruffled.

“You need help packing?” he asked.

“Um… I guess…”

I unlocked the door and we stepped inside. Shanna’s half of the room was stripped bare – metal-frame bed, old mattress, empty wooden desk. I felt lonelier just looking at it.

“Can I ask you a favor?” Derek asked.

“Um… depends on what the favor is…”

“Can you not leave today, and just stay one more night?” he asked, staring into my eyes.

“I… I told my parents I’d be back today…”

“I’m probably never going to see you again once you leave. Could you please, please just stick around one more night and give me some more time with you?”

One more night.

The phrase made me weak in the knees.

Maybe from how many times I’d heard it in love songs.

“…please,” he whispered.

All the little voices in my head were screaming, No! Don’t! Bad idea!

But the feelings in my body were saying something else entirely.

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