Stacia spent a lot of time in the tutor center from then on. She had been passing by with Cs her entire life. She could not do it now when this was something she actually cared about. She needed to focus, and focus she did.
The team won their next home match by a large margin, and it was the most she had seen of her friends or the football team since the weekend before. And she jumped right back into studying with Whitney and Simon that next week.
Her eyes were tired, and she felt exhausted after working so hard for her upcoming test on Wednesday that she didn’t even realize what time it was when she finally made it back to the condo. But Pace was still up with a beer in hand, waiting for her.
“Where have you been lately?” he asked.
She tossed her backpack down on the chair and landed
