I Said “Okay” And Packed Before They Knew What I’d Sent

against the back of his chair, wearing the same careless smile that had rescued him from every disaster he’d ever created.

The paper waiting in front of me was a university deferment request.

It claimed I was voluntarily postponing my first semester at Westbridge University.

Voluntarily.

I had spent years earning that acceptance.

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