He took the schedule and made a hand notation and then gave it back. Scott now had Geometry instead of Algebra I, but was stuck with speech.Shit!Scott...s bad mood continued through lunch. Eddie was sympathetic, but he couldn't understand why Scott wanted to take two math classes in addition to his advanced placement prep classes.After lunch Scott got Mrs. Mendoza to stop at his bank. He went in and withdrew a hundred dollars since he was going to have to buy school clothes. Mrs. Mendoza drove. “No,” the president replied succinctly. “We have lowered our standards – against my judgment – to accept you here. We will not lower them further. If you do not achieve a 2.5 grade-point average and complete at least 12 hours per semester, you will not return. If you are caught with drugs or weapons on campus, you will be expelled. If you are arrested for a violent crime, you will be removed from the dorms and suspended from the college. You did not meet the criteria for initial selection to. “I had an hour to talk to him and I didn’t really know what to ask yet. I asked him about dealing with women who knew you were rich.”“Gold diggers?”Nick nodded. “That was the term I used. Jesse didn’t like it very much. He said that everybody who came into your life, whether you were rich or poor, was going to want something from you and that it was a mistake to cut people out just because you figured out what they wanted. He also said I could miss a lot of life if I worried about people. "Maybe even more. I mean, I love you sis, and I dig the fucking you taught me. I guess I'll always love you more than any other chick I get to screw, because we're closer. But mom--well, I've been dreaming about her for years, only I never came right out and admitted it to myself before." Jenny nodded and stroked his hand. "I know, Travis. I always had the same thing for dad, dreams and wild ideas. But I never thought beyond the.