Erik Stevens crashes an annual Spring Break pilgrimage among a large group of friends where he meets Renata Gilliam, a big beautiful social media influencer with an inner confidence that she's too shy to express outwardly among her close friends.
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"Dirty computer, breaking down Picking my face up off the ground I'll love you in this space in time 'Cause baby all I'll ever be Is your dirty computer Dirty computer
Searching for someone to fix my drive Text message, God up in the sky Oh, if you love me, won't you please reply? Oh, can't you see that it's only me, your dirty computer? Dirty computer Your dirty computer..."
Janelle Monae – "Dirty Computer"
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"How much longer do we have to wait?"
Renata Gilliam sat in the back of the rental car at the Madison airport Hertz parking lot. The mini-van she was helping to pay for idled with the air conditioning on. It was eight o'clock at night and still hot as hell. They still had a three-hour drive to get to Buffalo Lake. Shawn and Bertrand sat in the front listening to music on the satellite radio trying to ignore her. It was the fourth time she had asked the question in two hours.
"His flight just landed, chill," Bertrand said answering her and turning up the music.
Renata's mood wasn't in the best place since she learned that their annual Grown Up Spring Break was being crashed by three additional people; two women coming from Chicago and a male friend of Shawn's from M.I.T.
Erik.
"He's on his way," Shawn said glancing at his cell.
Renata positioned herself on the back-row seats for a good sleep. She didn't have to drive so there was no sense waiting up for this Erik guy to make his way over to them.
Her eyelids drooped shut and her mind reflected on the ten days of fun they all had planned once they reached her homegirl Soyini's family home on the lake. This was their seventh planned break as a large group, their third since they had all graduated from college. But it would be the first one they would have with three outsiders. Renata was not good at making new friends even though she tried. Her comfort level was slow at getting acclimated to new energy. Buffalo Lake was her happy place, the spot to recharge herself for the year. New people there made her feel a little anxious. Change was scary to her sometimes.
