Stay here tonight, Jacqueline. I need to keep you here, at least tonight. Please.

maybe i'm exacly where i should be after all.

The exception is I'm not going away. Don't ask me to do that ever again.

Not. Your. Fault." I nodded again, holding onto his words like they were redemption.

How did you know??? I'm Erin. I know all. ;)

No matter what happened to any individual person, life was going on elsewhere. The first time Kennedy kissed me, it stood to reason that at the same time, other people were splitting up. And the night Kennedy broke my heart, somewhere - maybe right there in my dorm, other people were falling in love.

Rather than raising his voice like everyone else, he leaned close to my ear and asked, "Dance with me?" I felt his warm breath and inhale the scent of his aftershave -something basic and male.