Kent rubbed his eyes and looked back at his notebook. "Yeah, just not been sleeping well is all."

"Oh, right,” I sat back in my seat and stared down at my notebook. "Too many late nights with Jen lately, huh?”

Kent shook his head and picked up his pencil. He started doodling on the cover of his notebook. That was one of his pissed off tells. "No. I've been sleeping on her couch."

"And why is that?" I glanced between his face and his doodles. "I thought you and Jen made up."

The professor turned down the lights which signified he was ready to speak.

I wrote a note on his clean page as he opened his notebook.

I can get that coffee after class today.

When Kent started taking notes I did as well, the professor wasted no time getting down to business. At class's end I stood up, notebook in hand. "So do you have time?"

Kent stood up he nodded his head. "I thought you'd never ask."

I smiled and walked with him down the stairs. "Why don't you break up with her?"

"It's not that easy. Sometimes she doesn't take no for an answer. There are sometimes she's really sweet, but as of late it's like she's a totally different person."

I chewed on my lower lip softly. "But you love her, right?"

"That's a very complicated question, Elly. One I'm not sure I even know the answer to. Ever since prom night I thought so. I mean she didn't just leave me there after I passed out. She said we had sex, but I can't really remember."

"No, she did...I, um… I walked in on you guys. It was the worst night of my life." I avoided his gaze as the night replayed in my memory.

That night I had tried to be a good sport, for Kent’s sake, but prom blew big chunks. The only person I’d wanted to dance with had abandoned me. Come to prom with us, Elly, he’d said. It’ll be fun, he’d said. He had lied. It hadn’t been fun. It hadn’t been fun at all.

I started my walk to the hotel lobby when I saw a group of guys crowded around a half open door. Curiosity got the better of me and I pushed my way to the front, ready to close the door on whatever the jerks were staring at. But that was before I saw Jen, her short mini-dress pushed all the way up, revealing her whole perfect naked body. The guys were staring at it, soaking up the memory for the spank bank. And I couldn’t look away. I should have but I couldn’t. I saw Kent, on the floor of the Pine Room, his hands on Jen’s waist as she bounced on top of his half naked body.