Awakening Passion

Despite my act, i knew exactly who she was, Cecilia Barnes, head of the Barbies sorority. One of the girls who had been too busy running after the popular boys , and the heirs to notice a boy on scholarship. She had made my freshman year chemistry class a living hell, all because I had been unfortunate enough to land her as a lab partner.

Taking a long swig of my beer, i nodded. Her eyes perked up as she waited for me to fall into her ready arms. “Sorry,” I said, “don’t remember,” I paused just long enough to see her deflate like a punctured blow-up doll.

After the way Jasper and Jacob had built things up, i had expected to feel some sort of triumph about returning to the reunion as the poor-boy-who-made-real-good. But frankly, after my run-in with Cecilia, i realized I didn’t really feel anything either way.

Then again, I knew that none of this was about some girl in my chemistry lab who hadn’t given me the time of day?

This was about Diana.

And after ten long years of keeping my dis