Yeah, back I guess. Emmy is back, but both of us are muy busy. so yeah. Here it goes.
My days just seemed to flow together. I would sit in class, take the notes, pass the tests, but nothing was really getting to me and sticking. I was auto-drive. As Connie would later describe it, I just "Ran out of passion for living life."
My game suffered immensely, the Ducks had problems covering for my lagging. Orion eventually had to take me out. He called me into his office after a practice.
His words made no sense to me anymore. I just stood and walked out. I walked all that way back to the dorm, Connie attempted to talk to me but I just blocked her out.
I couldn't do school work. What was the use? I closed my book with a SLAP! The drapes over the window fluttered with the sudden burst.
I drew back the shade, by now it was almost February, that cold January night seemed so long ago. Where was the girl she used to be? I surveyed the daring groups of people that faced the late January weather, the temperature always daring to dip below freezing.
Two people sat on the bench, huddled together for warmth. It was him.
I snapped the shade closed and walked to her unmade, inviting bed. I curled up under the covers. "Sleep Julie…Sleep until it all goes away…"
"No she isn't okay! She's not the girl we knew…or at least the girl I thought I knew."
"Well what do you supposed we do?"
"Sporks and lots of them!"
"Funny, but no."
"Press charges! It's not like we don't have grounds!"
"We looked into it—it's a huge claim—"
"It's kind of a big deal!"
"I looked into it; we have an 18 month window to get her to press charges. Two months of that is gone."
"Well how do we get her to do it?"
"I can hardly get her out of bed in the morning, let alone anything else!"
"Charlie, you haven't said anything. What do you say we do?"
"Uh…well... We need a plan, that's for sure. We can't let her know about that we are doing anything…"
"What about the rest of them?"
"Let it fall into place Guy…I think it's coming to me."