Chapter 5

"Lainey and Emily waited anxiously in the parking lot while Susan toured the college fair."

"There's a ton of colleges here," Lainey said. "She's bound to pick one, right?"

"She's got to," Emily said.

Susan walked over to them with a mad look on her face.

"Thanks for wasting my time," Susan said. "I told you I didn't want to go to college!"

"Susan," Emily said. "We're…"

Susan laughed.

"Gotcha!" Susan cheered. "There are so many colleges here that I'm interested in attending. I'm going home right now and applying."

Susan excitedly ran to her car.

"Well," Lainey said. "Looks like she's going to college."

"Sure does," Emily said. "Now let's go see if we can find my boyfriend."

"Meanwhile, I was at my apartment trying to calmly take my mind off of things."

Jeff angrily vacuumed his living room carpet.

"I said trying."

As he turned off the vacuum, Jeff heard a knock at the door.

"Go away!" Jeff shouted. "I didn't order a pizza!"

"It's C.B.!" C.B. hollered from outside the door.

"Go away!" Jeff shouted.

"I just want to talk," C.B. said.

"You've done enough talking," Jeff said.

"Please?" C.B. asked. "I promise I won't be mean to you."

Jeff opened the door.

"You have 30 seconds," Jeff said.

C.B. came in and he and Jeff sat on the couch.

"Look," C.B. said. "I'm sorry for yelling at you. It's just… I look forward to the college fair every year. I look forward to planning it out. You taking over made me feel like I don't matter anymore."

"You matter," Jeff said. "All everyone ever talks about is how you're important to the school. When I thought you wanted me to plan the college fair, I was so happy. I thought that planning it and making it so extravagant would make me matter. But I guess I shouldn't have just assumed that you were giving me your event."

"You do matter," C.B. said. "And you did a wonderful job planning out the college fair."

"You really think so?" Jeff asked.

"I do," C.B. replied.

Jeff and C.B. shared a hug.

"I just realized I left Wilma all alone," Jeff said.

Meanwhile, Wilma finished measuring the spaces in the cafeteria.

"Okay, Harvard and Yale," Wilma said. "As you can see, your spaces are equal to each other."

"But why is the water fountain on Harvard's space?" the advisor from Yale asked.

"Yeah!" the other Ivy League advisors shouted.

"Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, and University of Pennsylvania!" Wilma shouted. "Don't make me come over there!"