Hmm....

Laughter followed Jessica as she turned and walked into the next room. Irritation and annoyance crept into her face, and suffused her thoughts. Everything was definitely not going to plan, and however many times she had told herself something like this could happen, she could still not help but feel somewhat dismayed when it did. The utter gall of that... of that man! How could Erik be friends with someone so disrespectful and shameless?...No wonder he doesn't have a girlfriend. She didn't bother to keep back a small and secretive smile that crept onto her face as she turned this amusing and unoriginal thought around and around in her mind.

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As she began to realize that her struggle to fall asleep was useless, Becca was filled with an overwhelming sense of dismay. It's all his fault. I wouldn't be up right now if hadn't said those things. Oh God, why does he have to act like such a saint, and then turn immediately around and begin making me look stupid to our friends? She still couldn't believe what he had said to her. Why had he chosen now to start being such an ass? It didn't make any sense. All that she knew was that he would pay for that. She was unaware of a small and secretive smile that had silently latched itself onto her face as she lay facing the night.

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Derek lay musing to himself while attempting to read for his geology class. He thought about the last week and the strange melancholy that had attached itself to him earlier in the night and had remained unshakable for hours. Not really a depressive kind; more like and introspective sort of feeling. Sleep. That was the one thing he really needed. Time to think. Time for understanding. Time to regain the balance he seemed to be on the brink of finally retrieving. As he reached over to turn off the light, he began to think to himself and a small, secretive smile briefly touched his lips, while never coming close to his eyes. All women must be crazy, he concluded, turning his back he began shaking with silent laughter as he slipped off into a dreamless sleep.