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package. Plus sheā€™s really cool about the bro code.ā€

Millie (see, Iā€™m getting it now) had indeed been really cool about the bro code. Some girls you bang arenā€™t into the idea of coming back to the same place to get with the next guy in the house, then the next: they want to be in a relationship, they think itā€™s gross to be just there for fun. Some girls, like Millie, figure out theyā€™re getting a three-for-one deal and get with the program pretty enthusiastically.

And then thereā€™s some girls like Ra- psycho roommate, who are cute enough to get on my radar, but are enough of an asshole to drop right off it again.

Cute? I frown at myself. I need to get this train of thought back to the other girl. The one I actually fucked.

ā€œGreat boobs,ā€ I say, stretching and standing up, checking my keys are still in my pocket.

ā€œFantastic tits,ā€ Hunter agrees. ā€œYou gonna go work for a living?ā€

ā€œSomeoneā€™s gotta. You gonna go to any classes this year?ā€

Hunter laughs. ā€œThey gonna cancel football this season?ā€

ā€œAlright, alright. Hey, clean some of your dishes while weā€™re out.ā€

ā€œNah.ā€

Thatā€™s no surprise. Hunterā€™s not cleaned a single dirty dish heā€™s ever made. I shrug my shoulders, make a point of kicking one of Hunterā€™s shoes across the kitchen, pick up my varsity jacket off the floor of the corridor, and make my way to the front door.

ā€œAnd move your shoes! Itā€™s like a goddamn maze in here!ā€

ā€œNah!ā€

ā€œAsshole!ā€

With that loving farewell, Iā€™m on my way to class. I take it at a slow jog: Iā€™ve got practice later, after all. The air has lost that clean, crisp quality I love to run in: itā€™s warming up and it smells of exhaust fumes instead of mountains and leaves. Of the colleges to do track and field in, this had the most rural setting, but itā€™s still unfortunately more urban than Iā€™d want. Every day I consider moving out of the bro house and setting up in a shack in the woods. More so now that the bro house is now the ā€˜bro house plus Rachelā€™.

I make it to class with less than a minute to spare, and drop down in the front row. Most people have shit with them to take notes, but Seth Garcia doesnā€™t walk around with a backpack, because Seth Garcia doesnā€™t go to kindergarten anymore. What I canā€™t remember, I wonā€™t put in the assignment. Iā€™m not the best in the class, but Iā€™m good at bullshitting essays at the last minute, and thatā€™s good enough to keep me at Aurora U while I do the whole varsity athletics gig. The jacketā€™s basically a badge of: ā€œIā€™m not here to be asked questions, Iā€™m thinking about how to improve my ten mile pacing, donā€™t bother me.ā€ I settle in and put on my ā€˜donā€™t talk to meā€™ face, bouncing one leg up and down impatiently.

It works every time. Iā€™m the best it gets at being an asshole.

3

RACHEL

 

Most of Aurora, and anything outside of Aurora like Denver, is going to be easiest to get to if I had a car, but thankfully itā€™s only a half-mile walk to campus. Itā€™s a pretty walk, too: I pass by no less than three candle stores on my way (oh God, I need a job so bad), and the air is really clean and sharp compared to New York. Plus, no matter where you look, the low-built beige buildings are towered over by the nearby mountains, topped with picture-perfect snow. I can already sense how much film Iā€™m going to waste on getting the perfect picture of those mountains. In fact, why wait?

I take out my camera (today, to not look like a tourist or a dumb junior, Iā€™m not carrying one around my neck: Iā€™ve got my smallest camera perched precariously in my jacket pocket. I always have my Retinette ready in the backpack, but this is just a quick snap for experimenting with angles and composition, not an award-winning photo or anything. I pull it out and have a look through the viewfinder.

The sun has already crested above the mountains, and the mountain top is lit so brightly that Iā€™m not sure how to take this image without it getting washed out. Plus, no matter which way I place the camera, thereā€™s someone in the way: Iā€™m part of a slow-but-steady stampede of students going to campus, and theyā€™re not going to stop for some photography student. I give up, pocket the camera without a single photo taken, and keep walking.

If I keep this up, I muse fatalistically, I can fail out of Aurora U in probably a record time. What kind of art student canā€™t even get enough inspiration to hit the shutter button on their stupid camera?

The campus is still as pretty as it was the day before: the wide brown buildings, the billowing spray of red-gold leaves over the quad, and a sea of students. Today, though, thereā€™s a kind of energy there wasnā€™t the day before: everyoneā€™s excited. A lot of my excitement for college had kind of been dampened by my unfortunate living situation and unfortunate (if good-looking) jock roommates, but Iā€™m actually getting excited just by being around all my fellow brand new students.

Yesterday meant nothing, I remind myself. Today is when I really get started with my new life at Aurora U. For the first time today, I smile, really smile, and take everything in. Itā€™s not a big art school; hell, itā€™s a sports college if anything: but I can make it my own. I can find friends in the art department, maybe even a guy, and move in with them as soon as possible. Itā€™ll be a little Aurora art commune where people keep the kitchen clean and donā€™t call me a bitch. Itā€™ll be heaven.

Not as much musculature on show, something traitorous comments. Those three are practically anatomy models. You strip them down, you could do a life study, see

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