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capable of getting A’s. This time they were easy to get.
    In the end, he agreed to apply, hoping he could somehow sabotage his chances. Then he went on about enjoying his summer. Lovelle had not been so free of responsibility in such a long time. It was a shock to his system. He turned seventeen shortly after school let out, and was finally enjoying life a little, instead of brooding over what he had lost. He was actually almost convinced that he could get it back. It just felt to him like he had it in him to make it happen. He had never been a believer in fate, but, somewhere inside him there was a bit of faith that his life with Katie and Kyle was meant to be.
    That faith may have been the savior of his sanity, because signs continued to point in another direction. Nearly everything seemed to be different in his second life. Very soon he found himself being accepted to Michigan State. And, as if going away to school were not a significant enough alteration in his plans, this news came with another test for him. Trina, who had previously gone away to school in California and never returned, was now considering her second choice. She had been accepted by MSU as well, and because several of her friends were going, she said that she was considering the option. The problem was that Trina had never seriously considered MSU in their first life. He knew that her choice had been Stanford, and that if she changed her mind it would somehow be because of him. Whether it was her feelings for him, or just some other way he had changed the trajectory of her life, he couldn’t guess. And since he could not now forego MSU himself, his parents simply would not hear of it, he set about to keep Trina from going.
    He formulated a plan and put it in motion. He started dating a girl that he was quite certain he would have no problem getting rid of. They had been a short lived couple the first time he was seventeen, and he found her completely annoying. Although attractive, she wasn’t nearly as stylish, intelligent, or even as nice as several of the girls he had turned down. What she was, however, was enthusiastic about being with Lovelle. The first time around their relationship was the result of his lack of self-esteem, and of her persistence. This time it was precisely his lack of interest in her that brought them together. That, and the fact that she was easy to get, and he presumed would be easy to keep.
    Lovelle thought he was being smart. He thought that she would be the one girl he could use to put off Trina’s interest in him without any risk that it would develop into a real relationship. What he neglected to consider was how suspicious this would seem to Trina.
    “How do you even know Shannon?” Her inquisition began.
    “We’ve been to some of the same parties.”
    “Is she the one?”
    He pretended not to know what she was talking about, “What one?”
    She shot him the evil eye, “You know what I mean.”
    “No.” he conceded, dropping his eyes.
    “Well?” she insisted on an explanation “What happened to the great love of your life? Obviously you didn’t change your mind for Shannon. I mean really. Excuse my bluntness, but, you’ve turned down way prettier girls than that.”
    “Excuse me!” he feigned indignation as convincingly as he could, “That’s my girlfriend you’re talking about.”
    “I’m sorry.” This time she lowered her eyes. “I just…” Trina stammered. She wouldn’t have purposely hurt his feelings, and was immediately upset to think that she had. By now he knew that she was just angry because she felt as though he had chosen someone over her, and not even someone she respected.
    Lovelle should have left things alone there. Instead he embellished, “I asked the other girl out and she said she wasn’t interested. Shannon has been asking me for a while, so I decided to say yes.” And with that, he had inadvertently left the door open.
    He tolerated Shannon for a while, waiting to see