There was the usual, annual bouquet of roses on Natalie's kitchen table. Happy Valentine's Day to our Valentine. It was February 15th, and no matter what year she was in right now, it was Natalie's birthday. She was twenty years old today. She felt younger and older all at the same time, but at least she was no longer officially a teenager ( Read more... )

Natalie was finalizing her paperwork to be sent back home to Canada, for her potential admission to the University of Toronto. Since this was a weird sort of application - in the middle of a year, from someone who hadn't been to a school since graduating high school in 2013 - there was a lot of stuff in there, and a lot more to still get in order. ( Read more... )