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with.”
    “He would still want to be with me even if I refused
to help him,” I told Kelly, even though her words sent a chill through me.
    “You’re so fucking naïve, Jenn. He figured out that
you’re one of the smartest girls on campus, so of course he’s going to keep you
around. He’ll get you to help him, and then once you’re not worth anything to
him anymore, he’ll find another girl to give him what he wants.”
    “So what was he doing before you threw him under the
bus? I mean—it’s not like he needed me to help him study then.” Kelly shrugged.
    “You’re useful to him. Before it was probably that you
were a good lay, or something like that, who knows? But now? Now you’re the
girl who’s going to help him pass the ACT and prove that he’s not a cheater.
But how likely do you really think it is that he’s serious about being a better
person?” She shrugged. “He’s a selfish asshole, and if you don’t believe that,
ask the other girls he’s dumped.”
    “You are too much,” I said, shaking my head. In spite
of my bravado, I could feel her words
sinking hooks into my brain. “You’ve lied to me from the very beginning, and
you expect me to believe a word that comes out of your mouth now? You just
admitted to me that you risked a friend’s academic career to get back at Devon
for dumping you.”
    “Devon doesn’t like you—he doesn’t like anyone. He
certainly doesn’t love you.” Kelly laughed shortly. “The only person that Devon
Sealy loves is himself. The only thing he cares about is getting what he wants.
What he wants right now is to get back on the team and get off suspension. Once he gets that with your
help, you’re totally useless to him. He’ll be back to banging whoever he feels
like in no time.” She threw away the paper towels in her hands and walked out
of the bathroom, leaving me all alone.
    I stood there in the echoingly silent room, my mind
swirling with disbelief and doubt. Devon had never been anything but honest
with me; he had even come clean about being a player who used girls. He had
admitted everything—but only when it came out and he had to. From what my other friends had said about him, everything that
Kelly had ever accused him of was right. Was I just being a naïve idiot to
think that he was really serious, and really wanted to turn over a new leaf and
be a better person? I wanted to believe it. He had been so completely candid.
He had been so attentive, had begged me to hear him out.
    But I couldn’t deny the fact that his past spoke
volumes about him. Could a guy really go from sleeping around and dropping
girls the minute he got tired of them to being serious? I thought about how I
had felt when he’d told me about cheating on the ACT. My impulse had been to
have nothing at all to do with him ever again. Had that been the right thought
all along? I couldn’t help but think—even though I didn’t want to—that in spite
of the fact that Kelly had been lying to me, and her bitterness had driven her
to try and get revenge on a guy she couldn’t have, that there had to be a grain
of truth in what she’d said. Maybe I was a naïve idiot after all.
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