Chapter 49

*** I left the locker room as discreetly as possible. Phew! That was a close one. I'd almost slept with Lucas a second time but I was saved by the gong which turned out to be a phone call from my mom. I'd stopped whatever I was doing with Lucas to answer her. She announced to me the fact that the house had been robbed by thieves. And after that call, I made it clear to Lucas that I couldn't continue all this with him. It was wrong and I wasn't used to all of this. Plus, my mother wasn't safe back in Brooklyn. I needed to send her money. -- Later that day, I sat in a restaurant out of campus. I needed to get some free space to think. Which I did. "Harlem, you're better than this. You were brought up as an honest person." I thought to myself. I decided to tell Rick the truth. I would make things easier and break up with him. Of course I would tell him why. I preferred to end up alone than with any of them. And that was because I realised I couldn't chose one over the other. I had f