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Errant - deviating from the regular or proper course; straying.

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Nate hears a day too late. Jenny's things are packed and her train ticket to Hudson has already been bought. A semester, Dan tells him. That's how long she'll be gone.

"It will be better for her," Dan says. "She needs it."

This seems ridiculous in so many ways that Nate can't even get the right words out. As he flips open his phone, he forgets about Vanessa and college and the lies and secrets and his parents and everything else. He doesn't care anymore. He finds the one number he thought he had lost and texts her one simple word.

Stay.