(Sequel to Watty Award Winner "Dear Sydney")
College isn't for everyone. Sometimes school is meant to end after the twelveth grade.
So when Sydney Porter decided to leave James Madison University after her sophomore year, her boyfriend of t...
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"I'm sorry, that was...unexpected."
"Yeah, just a bit." I replied, pulling away from Jacob. I wasn't exactly sure what I was feeling, but it was definitely not the heart flutters I usually got after kissing someone.
"Can I ask what that was for?" I asked after the silence that fell between us. There were essentially two options for why Jacob had decided to kiss me: either he had simply wanted someone to kiss at midnight, or he had actual feelings for me.
I preferred the former.
"Look, you're not with Connor anymore..." Jacob began.
Crap. It was the latter.
"...and I just feel like if I don't make my move now, I never will." he continued. The notion would have been sweet if he hadn't been screaming it over the music.
"Jacob, I--"
"You don't feel the same way, and that's okay." He nodded, smiling at me. "I figured that much."
"It's not that." I shook my head, "Maybe I would feel that way, eventually. But Connor and I broke up a week ago. We were together for four years, and a week is just too short for me to get over him. And that wouldn't be fair to you if we started something up. You deserve a girl who is wholeheartedly in love with you, and I just...I can't give that to you."
