"Mia, did you ever find an iPod for sale that you liked?" His words broke me from my thoughts. "What? Oh, um, no. All the ones I have found are stupid...expensive. For those prices, I might as well buy a new one. Why do you ask?" All my music is on my iPad now. I don't even use mine anymore. If you wanna stop by after work you can check it out, see if you're interested. I'd sell it to you for cheap." Seriously!?" No, I'm just kidding, I plan on charging you an arm and a leg for it."I tried to. And I sat there, staring at my cell for a couple of hours hoping it would go off because Dawn was calling me.Because she was the one actually dating someone else in a relatively committed relationship, I felt that SHE needed to call ME to reassure me that she was thinking of me and that she still loved me. After a while, though, I couldn't take it any longer and picked up my cell phone, holding down the 2-button to buzz her.She picked up immediately and I heard the familiar tone of another. Well, that was not completely true… in fact that bears no semblance whatsoever to the truth. The real truth was that her high school experience sucked and over the space of four years her life had altered, and never in her favor it seemed. She had had four or five crushes and despite her looks she was turned down for others and ended up with a couple loser boyfriends that probably could have won Academic Decathlon competitions in their sleep. Again it could be mentioned that beauty was not a. ” Lame, but she responded and they got talking about how the stuff in class related to the current political turmoil. By the time they finished their drinks, Jack bravely asked, “Could we continue this Friday evening?”Jill shook her head and said, “I’m busy this Friday but how about next?” Jack was delighted.They visited off and on after class until he could take her to a modest, student-budget dinner. When they returned to her apartment she invited him in and offered a glass of wine, letting.