Kate didn't look happy at that response. She was expecting a few weeks, maybe - at the worst, a couple months. But eight?

"Great. That's just awesome." She walked away from the stacks then, less occupied with finding something to read. Maybe she'd buy a few comic books before she left so she could go back to the apartment and drown her despair in super heroes. "I can't do this. I have school. If I miss a year, Stanford's never gonna take me and then what am I supposed to do? Not to mention how much this stupid place is going to cost my parents in therapy bills."