Chapter Fourteen
The Spectacular Now
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
- Milan Kundera
ETHAN
Tampa, Florida
Present Day
Day 2. And I woke up to a note at my front door.
Last night, after I dropped off a drunk Griff at his suite and wound up cursing out a ready-to-bail Chris, I somehow found my way back to my hotel room, where I did anything but sleep. My mind raced for hours after I closed my computer and I couldn’t think of anything but storming four floors down in the hotel, knocking down Kat’s door and f*****g all of the hate out of her system, replacing it with the feelings she once felt nine years ago—when we were seventee
