Jools had been preparing herself for her first official date all week. It took her days to pick her simple gray dress (with the advice of any girl who walked past her door). It took her even longer to convince herself that it wasn't going to end in disaster.

She knocked on Bobby's dorm room door and waited for his answer. She was grateful for the delay, taking that last minute to steady her nerves and the floating feeling spreading through her chest and into her head.