Chapter 7

Time crawled forward, indifferent and slow. Graduation was getting closer day by day. The future still looked clear, at least if I could finally let go of that rainy day.

Emily and I had both found jobs—mine on the west side of the city, hers on the east, with most of the city between us.

We talked about renting a place somewhere in the middle once things settled down after graduation.

The graduation dinner was set for two nights before we left campus, at the Sichuan spot we always hit up by the back gate. We'd booked a big private…