Ashley's POV;

I'm walking through the hotel's alley, toward the room Gerald booked for us. The campus is still filled with a few folks who haven't left school yet.

The school has given us an entire week before we're mandated to leave, and that is why I haven't gone home yet. If I am to be honest, I'm not even eager to go.

First, I don't want to leave Gerald yet, and secondly, my mom said I have to pay aunt Lily a visit first before coming home, and I'm scared of doing that. Austin is there. I don't want to see him or talk to him. I'm trying to...