Within three days Leah was bringing in her stuff up to the dancer's loft. It had only taken one day for her to decide that she needed to have some place more permanent that her motel room and it had only taken two days for her to get the nerve to call back. Smiling, she started to whistle as she carried up her last box, she only had a few boxes, and one was just textbooks. The dancer, Mimi, asked if she could help unpack. Nodding Leah started on her own. She was to help pay for the groceries but not the rent, supposedly they had a deal with the landlord. Leah didn't mind, any money she had left at the end of the week was great. Though scholarships paid for most of her tuition fees, she still had to have books and food.

"Oh, who is this?" Mimi was holding up an old picture frame with no glass. Reaching for it Leah replied.

"Me and my old boy-friend."

"Ex? Then why do you still have it?"

"He isn't really an ex, he's just-" She was cut off by Laughing Leather Jacket in the doorway. She had since learned his name was Roger, but that didn't mean she forgave him for laughing at her. He walked in and kissed Mimi's cheek, she blushed and put down the photo. They started to whisper to each other. Snatching the picture from on top of the box Leah put it with some of her books and carried them all to her new room. Sitting down on the bed she sighed, that was too close, it was too soon for her to give up the photo, or to explain it. Brushing her hand across the picture she was thrown back- back to when they were all that the other needed.

"Do you love me?" They were sitting on top of the stands looking across the soybean field that grew next to the football field. Their senior year was ending, though he still had on his letter jacket-MO weather made the temp. around 61 degrees.

"Now what kind of question is that?"

"Its just everything is changing, your going to CMSU, I'm going to Colombia, are we really going to make it?"

"Now you sound like a girl! What's gotten into you? Those are the questions I'm supposed to be asking."

"Come on, I'm being fuckin serious."

"Yes I love you, for some strange reason I love you."

It was only a year later when his mother had called her. The next semester she moved to NY without a look back.

She put the photo in a drawer and went back to unpacking. Walking back into the living room she saw Roger arguing with Mimi, something about her still working. He stormed out of the room and Mimi crumpled on to the couch with red eyes.

"What's wrong?" Leah sat next to her and rested her hand on her knee.

"Men are just idiots, stupid selfish idiots!" With that she threw a pillow at the door.

"Yes they are, they all are, but why him in particular?"

"He wants me to quit dancing and go back to school."

"Well, what's so wrong with that?"

"For him its not a when, it's a now."

"Oh. Well, its not so bad, school that is."

"Oh yes it is, for me it is."

"What if-" Mimi yelled cutting off Leah,

"IT'S OKAY LEAVE IT!"

"Ok, ok."

They went back to unpacking with only an occasional sniffle from Mimi. Leah looked at her, she was about 20, the same age as her sister, Jane, but they were so different. Mimi had already lived a life, Jane was just starting hers, Mimi understood, Jane was clueless.