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on my
back, making me stumble, while their excited voices rose and fell
in shrieks.
    “ You’re kidding?” Cammy
asked. “What did he say? Did he ask you out?”
    “ You should have heard him
talking about her last night,” Annie said. “He was asking me all
kinds of questions when I told him she went to the Controlled
Environment concert.”
    “ He was only interested
because Krysti was there,” I said, plummeting from Heaven straight
back to Earth. Disappointment dripped from my voice. “He asked me
about that.”
    “ No, I think he likes you,”
Annie said as she began picking up the books in a frenzy. “Let’s
hurry up and finish so we can go to the Student Center. He’s
probably hanging out there.”
    She jammed books haphazardly on the shelves
despite my protests until I yanked them out of her hands and began
placing them in proper order. I’m a neat freak, yes, I know. But I
truly believe that everything belongs in a certain place. It makes
life that much easier. “They don’t go there, Annie.”
    “ Oh, what does it matter?”
Annie argued. “The quicker we get this done the quicker we can get
out of here.”
    My phone, which was sitting on what used to
be Danielle’s desk, rang. I was too busy arguing with Annie to
notice. Cammy wasn’t.
    “ Hello?” she whispered
warily.
    “ You are such a control
freak, Bella!” Annie declared.
    “ Iz? I don’t know an Iz.
Are you sure you have the right number?” Cammy asked.
    I dived at Cammy, jerking my phone from her
hand, and gasped. “Jake! Hey! How are you?”
    He laughed loudly. “You’re a control freak,
Iz? I never would have guessed.”
    “ Shut up,” I mumbled. “What
are you doing up so early?”
    “ We just settled into our
hotel and I got your messages. All four of them.”
    I jutted my lower lip out in a pout. “Can I
help it if your voice mail cuts off so quickly?”
    “ Four messages, Iz?” he
asked, a little dumbfounded. Obviously he wasn’t used to my
rambling yet.
    “ I had a lot to tell you,”
I defended.
    “ You could have just said you had a lot to
tell me. I would have called you back.”
    “ Yeah, well, where’s the
fun in that?” I muttered in a petulant tone.
    His chuckles made goose bumps break out on
my flesh. “You’re something else, Iz.”
    My cheeks heated and I was grateful he
couldn’t see it. “Sure. Don’t forget it, either.” I smiled, happy
to hear his voice. “Where are you, anyway?”
    Annie and Cammy sat on the vacant bed and
watched me with curious eyes. Annie still held a couple books in
her hand but I wasn’t quite sure she’d realized it. Cammy’s brows
were crinkled as she concentrated on every word I uttered. I
flashed a weak smile and walked to the window, turning my back on
the both of them.
    “ Canada,” Jake
said.
    “ Canada?
Seriously?”
    “ Yes, Iz,
seriously.”
    “ Wow,” I said, awed. “Did
you see any mooses, meeses, whatever?”
    He laughed again, and I got entirely too
much joy out of the sound. It was something in which I could
certainly become addicted. “Moose and no, haven’t seen any yet. Of
course I don’t think they’re big fans of ours anyway.” He took a
second to take a deep breath. “So, this guy walked you back to your
dorm, huh?”
    I chattered happily, telling him every
little detail as my friends listened intently. Their eyes were
wide, and I knew as soon as I hung up the phone, they’d accost me
again. But I’d worry about that later. When I finished with my
tale, I heard him crack open a beverage can. I didn’t know much
about Jake and I hoped he wasn’t a stereotypical rock star who did
drugs and drank excessively.
    “ What are you doing?” I
asked lightly.
    “ Just lying on the bed,
drinking a soda. What did you think I was doing?”
    I didn’t want to say. “Um, I really don’t
know. What does one do when one is on the road?”
    A thump behind my back reminded me I wasn’t
alone. Oops. I smiled weakly over my shoulder,