I glanced around at each of them. I hadn’t expected to come here and make friends. But I realized in that moment, that aside from Meredith, I’d become closer with these three in a few short weeks than I had with any of the people I’d gone to school with for years. And I wondered how, once all this was over, I’d leave them to go back to my real life. In that moment, I wasn’t sure I wanted to.
