Rachel shook her head at the pair of them. “Wish all you want but that doesn’t change facts. We’re twenty-one years old, a good deal older than Holden in that story already. And at this age we are adults, we just have to accept it. Now I’m going to bed, and I suggest you two do the same.”
With that Rachel gathered her handbag up and slipped out the door. Though she was the first to go, the others weren’t far behind. Soon all three had climbed into their beds in their cluttered dorm rooms. Brian drifted off to sleep after pushing aside a pile of unwashed socks and underwear left on his bed, leaving his book discarded on the floor between pairs of sneakers and flip-flops.