CHAPTER 138

  Gracie

  I was taking longer than usual to walk home from campus because I dreaded arriving. I would need to talk with Ryland, and I didn’t know if I was ready for it. The truth was, I had been struggling badly recently. College wasn’t going as great as I had hoped. I failed one of my assessments, something I had never done before. Yes, I am doing great in some classes, but I should be doing great in all. I am not stupid. I am intelligent, that was the one thing I’d always had going for me, or maybe I thought I was, except high school was nothing compared to now.