CHAPTER 25 WINTER WONDERLAND

When Thanksgiving break is over, the weeks before the Christmas and New Year holidays are always filled with intense studying and final assignments. Jenna studied hard; revived by her time with Ryan, she now had a new meaning in her life. She felt that they are closer than ever after the realizations and the conversation that they had as well as the reassurance of their commitment toward each other. The last day of the finals was coming and the campus of Berkeley turned into a winter landscape. There was a rather unusual snowfall and it changed the view of the recognizable territory into a rather fairytale-like one. Jenna was standing by the window in her dorm room watching the snowflakes flying around; she smiled to herself as she contemplated about the Christmas break. Her phone buzzed with a text from Ryan: ”Last final done! How are you?” Jenna quickly replied: “One more to go tomorrow,” she typed, as if the words were nearly painful to write; “then freedom. ” She could almo