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down.
    “What?”
    “We’ve got another meeting with our peer group this evening!”
    “Great,” I groan.
    “Are you going?”
    “It’s mandatory, isn’t it?”
    “Yeah, but I can cover for you and sign your name. If you want to avoid anything awkward with Andrew.”
    “I’m all right,” I tell her. “Actually, I bumped into him today.”
    “Oh?” Katy’s eyebrows shoot up.
    “Yeah. It was kind of strange. I mean, he didn’t do anything wrong. But I froze up when he came close and then I bailed.”
    “Froze up how?” Katy asks.
    “Like, I just psyched myself out. He was acting normal. I was acting strange. I knocked him over and ran off.”
    “You knocked him over?” Katy asks.
    “Yeah.” I explain how it happened, and she laughs.
    “That doesn’t sound so bad!”
    “Maybe not,” I agree. “But, I bet I made things a hundred times more awkward between us.”
    “Then let me cover for you,” she offers again. “You don’t have to go.”
    “No.” I shake my head. “I need to face this myself. I don’t want to go on having to avoid him the whole year.”
    Katy glances at the clock. “Well, you’ve got another few hours to figure it out. Let’s grab some dinner and see if you don’t change your mind then.”
     
    ***
     
    I end up going to the meeting with Katy, just like I said I would. I have a plan to apologize to Andrew before it begins.
    When we get there, however, he’s nowhere to be seen.
    He rushes in ten minutes late and immediately starts going over all the things he’s supposed to tell us about: university rules, disciplinary procedures, where to go to if you need counseling, who to talk to if you want academic help, that type of stuff. It’s extremely dry.
    What makes it worse is that he doesn’t even acknowledge I’m there. In fact, he pretends that my whole corner of the room doesn’t exist the entire meeting.
    Andrew wraps things up by saying our RAs have invited everyone over for a meet-and-greet socializer. I stare at him, willing him to look at me. He does not. When the meeting’s done, he runs out the room so fast that I’m sure it’s because he wants to avoid me.
    “That was weird,” Katy says as we follow the rest of the students out. “Are you sure nothing happened between you two you’re not telling me about?”
    “You know everything I do,” I sigh.
    “Maybe he had someplace to be. You could tell he was distracted.”
    “Maybe.” Somehow, I doubt it.
    We walk down the stairs and step outside. The crowd has thinned out. We start toward our dorm when Katy stops me.
    She nudges my shoulder and tilts her head to one direction. I follow her gaze. There, at the intersection of two streets, I see Andrew having a conversation with… Spencer ?
    Yes, it’s definitely them. Both men look livid.
    They notice us. Spencer spares one glance in my direction, scoffs, and stalks off. Andrew goes the other way.
    I eye Katy in confusion. “Um, do they know each other?”
    “God, I hope not.” She grimaces. “Drama with them involved is more than you need right now.”
    “Agreed.”
    “Although if I had to guess,” Katy continues, “I’d bet pennies to loonies that their confrontation had something to do with you.”
    I look at her in disbelief. “Don’t be ridiculous.”
    “I’m telling you, Spencer has a thing for you. He’s not one to give up easily.”
    “Well, I made it clear to him I want nothing to do with him.”
    “You say that now. Did you know he asked me about your date with Andrew today?”
    I stop in my tracks. “ What ?”
    Katy shrugs. “Yeah. He said he saw you in a car with another guy. Wanted to know who it was.”
    “Did you tell him?”
    “I can’t exactly say no to him,” she admits shamefaced.
    “Oh my God. Katy!”
    “What? Come on, it’ll spice your life up a bit. Having two hot guys interested in you at once? That’s like every girl’s fantasy.”
    “That is so not how it is,” I stress. “Whatever happened