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don’t want you around that. It’s just a week, which I know will seem like a month, but you fly back on Friday, so we can spend the entire weekend doing whatever you want.” His smile implies he already knows what I’ll want. “Cards. Board games. Movies.”
    “After a week apart, I guarantee we won’t be playing board games.” I kiss him. “We should get back. I think it’s time for you to give me another one of your treatments.”
    We drop the car off at his house and drive his black BMW back to campus. We eat dinner in the dining hall with Harper, then watch my new TV before going to bed.  
    Garret stays with me again and I realize that I’m starting to get used to having him beside me every night.  
    “I like this,” I say softly to him as he tugs my back closer to his chest.
    “I like it, too.” He moves my hair aside and kisses the back of my neck.
    “I mean, I like it so much that I want to do this every night.”
    “What are you saying, Jade?”
    He sits up and I turn over on my back to look at him.  
    “I’m saying I want to live with you next year. I want to get an apartment together in the fall.”
    “Really?” I can barely see his face in the dark room but I can hear the happiness in his voice. “But you said you wanted to test out living together this summer first.”
    “I don’t need to test it out. I love you and I love being with you and sleeping next to you like this.” I flip on my side to face him. “When we were at Frank’s house and you asked me to move in with you, I really wanted to say yes. I was just afraid to because I wasn’t sure where this was going. But I’ve decided to stop listening to that part of me that keeps telling me this will never work and that I can’t count on anyone, even you.”
    “You can count on me, Jade. I promise. I know I screwed up in the past and you didn’t trust me, and I didn’t deserve your trust back then. But I hope I’ve earned it back now. I promise you. I’m a hundred percent committed to this and I’m not going anywhere.”
    “I think I’m finally starting to believe that.”  
    “So we’re really doing this? After this semester we’ll be done living in these shitty dorms?”
    “Yes. And in the meantime, maybe we could do these sleepovers more than once or twice a week?”
    “We could definitely do that.” He gives me a kiss, then lays his head back down on the pillow.
    “And Garret?”
    “Yeah.”
    “Thank you for taking care of me. I know I said I didn’t need it but—I do.”
    “I know you do. Goodnight, Jade.”
    It’s true. He knows exactly what I need even when I don’t. I’m not sure how he knows me so well, but he does. He knows that when I try to push him away, it means I need him even more. And when I say I don’t want to talk, it means I really need to. I’m crazy that way and other guys would’ve given up on me months ago. But Garret’s still here and he isn’t going anywhere. Just thinking about that makes me feel like the luckiest girl alive.  

    Thursday morning I go back to class. I haven’t had any dizzy spells or headaches, so taking a few days to rest was probably a good idea. My knee is feeling better and the doctor said I’ll get the stitches out next Tuesday. Spring break starts a few days later on Friday and I fly out that afternoon for Des Moines.  
    “You’re finally back,” Carson says when he sees me in chemistry class. He takes my crutches and helps me into my seat even though I don’t want or need his help.
    “Yeah, I’m better now. And I’m a lot better with the crutches.” It’s my hint for him to stop helping me, but I’m sure it won’t stop him. I haven’t talked to Carson since he came by my room the other day, but he’s been texting and emailing me.  
    “Did you get the notes I sent you? You should have some from physics yesterday and the chem notes from Tuesday.”
    “Yeah. I got them. Thanks for doing that.”
    “What are your plans for spring