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Football or baseball?
Coke or Pepsi?
Chocolate or candy?
Can’t wait to hear back from you. Actually, no—can’t wait to read back from you.
Your pen pal,
Harley
My lips curled into a grin of amusement. On paper, this girl was adorable as hell. Maybe this wouldn’t be so bad. I liked this crazy girl.
She was so fucking real.
And a damn breath of fresh air.
Chapter Two
HARLEY
Tapping my pencil against the notepad, I glanced around my room, seeking inspiration. My professor knew creative writing wasn’t my strong point. Yet he insisted on this assignment for my portfolio.
It had been three days since I sent my letter to the local prison, and every time I checked my mailbox, my heart sank with disappointment.
Easton had not written back.
Surely there was an incentive for him to be part of the program, too. I tried my best to make the letter engaging, but really, how creative could I be with one damn piece of paper? We weren’t supposed to overwhelm them with the first one, but after that, all bets were off. Or so I was told.
My roommate, Kennedy, tapped obnoxiously on her phone, her long nails clicking with every word she typed out to her equally annoying boyfriend.
“Can you stop that?” she asked, her nasally voice piercing my ears.
“Can you stop texting?” I threw back, to which she just rolled her eyes, furrowed her blond brows, and sighed.
“Why do you always have the biggest stick up your ass?”
“Oh, I don’t know, Kennedy.” I sighed, throwing the notebook down on the bed. Sliding my feet into my sneakers, I stormed out of our small dorm. I stopped past the mailbox on my way out, hoping to see a letter, but was only greeted with an empty box. Just like all the days before. Ugh.
Taming my messy locks into a tight ponytail, I stretched quickly before tapping my smart watch and selecting the outdoor run option.
Running always made everything better.
An hour later, sweat was dripping down my hollow cheeks, and my heart was hammering against my chest. I sucked in greedy breaths of air as I stopped at the mailbox, surprised to see an envelope there.
My name was messily scrawled in black ink with Easton Diggs in the top left corner.
