“Oh, I forgot to mention,” Brennan said as the diner’s door shut behind them and they stepped back into the cool night air. The quiet parking lot was illuminated by a single streetlight and the glowing Waffle Den sign. Cole’s shoulder brushed his. Brennan reached for his bag and shuffled through it. He found what he was looking for, and presented it to Cole.
“I finishedTwilight,” he said. “It was… illuminating.”
They stood toe to toe, Brennan shoving his hands in his pockets, Cole fiddling with the pages of the book. Brennan couldn’t help leaning forward, like Cole was pulling him into his orbit.
“Yeah? It was actually helpful?”
“Oh, definitely not. But super informative about theTwilightcraze I missed out on,” he deadpanned. “Answered so many questions I did not need answered.”
Cole’s lips parted into a grin. Was Brennan imagining it, or was Cole leaning forward, too? Notforanything, not with intent, but in the slight way you do when you want to be closer to someone. Brennan hadn’t experienced intimacy in a hot minute, and he wasn’t entirely sure he was breathing.
“I’m glad I could do that for you?” Cole laughed. Brennan got a swoopy feeling in his stomach like the first time he’d ridden a roller coaster:do that again. “Does that mean you wantNew Moon,or no?”
Brennan blinked away the haze in his mind ofOh no he’s cuteand said, “Yes, absolutely.”
Cole kept smiling and Brennan would read every trashy vampire novel in the world to keep it that way.
“You could come by the library tomorrow and I’ll get you a copy?”
“Okay,” Brennan said. “I’ll see you then.”
BRENNAN’S PHONE
“Sturbridge University Meme Center” Facebook Group
NOT A MEME!
Incoming freshman Evelyn VanMeter has been MISSING since September 4 after moving in. Her roommate, family, and the school have not been able to get in contact with her and we’re trying to get answers! Does anyone know anything???
[In attached photos, Evelyn smiles into the camera. She has a round face, dark hair. In one photo, she has a pink scrunchie around her wrist. In the other photo, the pink scrunchie pulls her hair back.]
BRENNAN’S JOURNAL
Well.
Fuck.
7A BETTER LOVE STORY THANTWILIGHT
BRENNAN’S PHONE
r/sturbridgeuniversity
u/micahlandau
Anyone else noticing dark omens at Sturbridge University?
I apologize if this is not the right forum for this kind of thing, as I’m not typically a Reddit person, but I don’t know where else to turn. TheSturbridge Poststudent group all but laughed me out of the room and the official university news won’t even meet with me. But something is going on at Sturbridge and no one seems to notice, or care.
It started with a girl breaking a handheld mirror in my ancient history class. Afterward I was on a walk through the forests outside Sturbridge and found a dead squirrel just off the walking path. It was almost deflated, thin and flopping, and it had puncture marks. Like it had been sucked dry. Then another, a few yards away. Suddenly, I felt an intense dark aura all around me, but I couldn’t see anyone or anything that could be causing it.
When I got home, I did a tarot reading inquiring about the bad energy and got a really concerning reading that implied a powerful force is hovering over Sturbridge that threatens the existence of the world at large, a force which can only be conquered through the powers of love and enlightenment.
I’ve seen signs like this before, but I can only hope it’s not what I think it is. I’m stashing a few hidden protective and luck charms around campus, and I burned some sage in my apartment, but I’m not sure what else to do.
Has anyone else been noticing dark signs?
>> u/easyalpha: ah, so you’re the reason westside village stunk of sage all day yesterday
