Chapter 21

The three girls who had been chatting earlier were in a group next to Terry’s. Marissa, rather than doing the exercise, was taking this time to complain about her other classes as well. This was supposed to be her “easy” class, and the more she talked the more Terry could see why her grades were struggling. She struck him as the entitled intellectual type who had done well in high school and thought they could coast through college as well. Terry had had that rude awakening himself. The difference was that Terry was already on thin ice for being gay, so rather than admit to his parents that he couldn’t handle the collegiate workload and a part-time job, he pushed himself to be better until he was getting nothing but A’s and the occasional B.