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the rubber band he kept on his wrist to secure it. Brandon shuddered with distaste. “What’s she look like?”
    The guys gave a collective sigh, and Brandon sank into one of the ancient armchairs. Tinsley was hot, but these guys were ridiculous. She was nowhere near as beautiful as Callie, who Brandon had dated all of freshman year before Easy fucking Walsh stole her from him. They’d been at a party in the library, and when he’d gone to go get Callie a drink, like the gentleman that he was, Easy had swooped in and dragged her up to the rare books room and put some kind of southern cowboy spell on her. And now there were all kinds of rumors that he was leaving Callie for Jenny Humphrey, the cute new girl who Brandon had thought could actually get him over Callie. Fucking Walsh. He shot an angry look at Easy’s sprawled-out, horsey-smelling body on the scratchy plaid couch.
    “Don’t get your hopes up, kid,” said Ryan as he made room on the couch for Julian to sit. “Tinsley doesn’t even talk to freshmen.”
    “Now that she’s back, I have a feeling this year just got a whole lot more interesting,” drawled Easy without looking up from the sketchbook on his lap. Brandon fought the urge to roll his eyes. Was there a girl on campus that Easy was
not
into? First Callie, then Jenny, now Tinsley? There were rumors he and Tinsley had hooked up at her parents’ house in Alaska spring break freshman year, but Easy had never confirmed the story, not that Brandon even cared.
    “Hell, yeah!” Everyone turned to see Heath Ferro standing in the doorway with a wicked grin on his handsome face. “I was just talking to my cousin who graduated from here, like, five years ago, and he told me something freaking
awesome
. He said that if you walk to the other side of the crater, it gets all swampy and shit, and guess what’s growing there?” Heath looked at everyone expectantly, as though anything he was saying made sense.
    “’Shrooms, dudes!” he yelled. “I thought we’d head over to the woods and enjoy some natural highs, Alice in Wonderland style. It has been a long week,” he added, even though it was only Tuesday. “So who’s in?” Heath snapped his fingers impatiently.
    Ryan and Alan immediately bumped fists with him. “We’re in.”
    Brandon groaned and ran his hands through his freshly showered and gelled hair. “It’s fucking Tuesday. I’ve got five chapters of
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
to read for tomorrow.”
    “Oh, poor Brandon!” Heath snickered in the falsetto he reserved for making fun of his roommate’s girly attributes. “Not five chapters!”
    “Fuck off, Ferro. Not everyone’s daddies can buy them A’s.”
    “If freshmen aren’t banned, I’d love to partake.” Julian’s deep baritone boomed as he stood up. It was so unfair for a freshman to be so fucking tall and manly. When Brandon was a freshman, he was barely five-foot two and his voice sounded like a girl’s.
    Easy dropped his sketchbook to the floor and uncrossed his legs. “Why not?”
    Brandon sighed under his breath. Although he wanted to spend as little time as possible around the loathsome Walsh, he wasn’t about to let Easy and some novice freshman make him look like a pussy. “Fine. Let’s get out of here,” he relented. Thomas Hardy was meant to be skimmed anyway.
    Easy and Alan tossed a Frisbee back and forth, reminding Brandon of a couple of sloppy golden retrievers, as the group crossed campus to the patch of woods separating the brick buildings from the river. Preppy boys and girls with backpacks and cable-knit sweaters hustled off to the library for a few hours of cramming before curfew, and Brandon wished he could just sit with Callie again on the library steps like they used to, talking and flirting and making out when no one was looking. Instead, he was going hunting for ’shrooms with a bunch of jackass guys, one of whom had actually stolen the girl he loved from him and was possibly now on the