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the changes she had helped bring about the place.   At first, it had only been little things—like paint, a few new basketballs, an old foosball table she had talked a frat house into donating.  
    But eventually, she began to set her sites much higher.  
    An updated entertainment center had been next, including a stereo, DVD player with a library of DVDs, and a room of furniture.   She had scoured the campus then, begging for any and all donations.  
    Once she graduated college, the community center had brought her on as a full time employee.   Anna had by then decided that she was going to make the community center a place kids actually wanted to hang out.   Her neighborhood had been steadily declining since she was a kid, and things seemed to be at an all-time low.   She wanted to give kids an alternative to that lifestyle.
    She smiled at the posters hanging on the walls, advertising various activity nights.   They hosted movie nights every Friday and Saturday night, some sort of a dance in the gym at least once a month, and basketball games throughout the week.   She’d also instituted a tutoring program and had somehow convinced the city to give her the okay for internet access—so long as she could come up with the computers.  
    The next battle was her biggest one so far.  
    She had already asked for a daycare to be added to the center—but in addition to that, she had decided that she wanted these kids to have the opportunity to find a creative outlet.
    She had planned to build them a studio.
    “Hey, Anna, how was your weekend?”   One of her co-workers asked as she passed through the employee lounge.  
    “Oh, it was great, ”   she told the younger woman with a forced smile.   She could hear Drew’s voice sounding from the radio just a few feet away from her.   He was no longer talking about her, so that was a plus.   “How about yours?”  
    “Oh, you know, same ol ’, same ol ’.   Mikey’s got an ear infection, so that’s a joy.”   The young woman, Crystal, rolled her eyes to show her sarcasm.   “But I finally printed some adorable shots of him playing in the snow with the puppy.   Remind me to show you them later on!”  
    “You know I can’t pass up on adorable baby and puppy pictures, ”   Anna grinned and Crystal laughed, nodding her head.   She was at least five years younger than Anna, somehow managing working at the community center almost full-time, raising a toddler on her own, and still trying to finish her degree.
    And she just got a new puppy for Christmas.  
    Anna couldn’t help but admire her.  
    “Oh, and I left those quotes from my brother on your desk.   He said that’s about the lowest he could go.”
    “Thanks so much, Crystal!   I’ll take a look at them as soon as I get settled in here.”
    She poured hot water into her mug and slipped back down the hall, finally sitting down at her desk.   The first thing she did was pull open one of the drawers and dig out a packet containing her usual morning tea.  
    Next, she turned on some music, this time opting for the mp3 player rather than risking having to listen to Drew Whitman rant about her again.
    What business was it of his anyway?   Okay, so Jeff was his best friend.   So what?
    And it hadn’t gone exactly the way Drew had made it seem.   It wasn’t as if Anna had ripped Jeff’s heart out and stomped on it.   As soon as Jeff calmed down and actually gave it some thought, he would realize that it hadn’t exactly come out of nowhere.   The distance between them had been growing for some time now, even before it became literal distance instead of only just figurative.  
    And what did Drew know about love anyway?   He was even worse than Alice when it came to having an actual relationship .  
    Anna took a deep breath and exhaled loudly before taking a sip from her tea.  
    Concentrate, Anna Marie.  
    She opened her eyes and set her mug aside, ready now to delve into