#bergen_county

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She's been home for just a week but she's wondering if leaving California was wise. She doesn't know if she's really welcome here.

Of course, Lupe is around...

She checks her texts to see if Lupe responded.

Nope. Not yet.

Of course, she can't know how busy Garou get in a battle with the wyrm. She doesn't know she's just an ordinary girl in a town full of special people. Her dreams made her special, that's what she thought anyway, what she was lead to believe.

She's a tall girl who plays ball well and has crazy ideas. That's all.

Crazy ideas She looks at the time.

Nope, she's got another hour before she takes her pill.

The pills seem to dim her dreams but, that's good right? Keeps her focused. Keeps her grounded. Keeps her pragmatic.

And, while she didn't always like that- it did seem to make the feelings of illogical loneliness go away.. almost.

After all, she wasn't really alone. Big Campus. Big classes.

Clearly not.

She glances at her phone again. Jimmy, her old boyfriend. He's been worried about her. Silly of him. Sweet really. She shouldn't have made such a fuss earlier in the year. She's better now. She glances at his text.

Reads it, and shrugs. He's been making a bigger fuss than she has lately. As if he was worried she'd changed. She hadn't changed. She just was more... mature, yes, that's it. I am more mature. She had her priorities right. Dreams, crazy dreams, were nice, but not when they imperiled her to imagine herself special or gifted. No, she was an ordinary girl now. Which was better than being a girl with crazy dreams and no real chance of making them useful.

Yes.Better And on she walks.

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