The Ivy (23 page)

She said good-bye to Mimi and OK, who had decided to play Grand Theft Auto IV, and, too scared to see if Gregory was home, Callie flung open the door to C 24.

“Vanessa!”

“Vanessa?” she called again, more tentatively as she pushed the door to Vanessa’s room open a crack.

No one was there.

Sighing, she walked into her own bedroom and plopped down on the chair in front of her desk. She stared out her window and watched the dusk begin to creep across Harvard Yard. Over the weekend the white blanket of fresh snow had turned to gray slush.

Her eyes fell upon a handwritten note resting to the left of her laptop. It was from Vanessa. She began to read:

Callie’s hands were shaking and her eyes began to fill with tears as she reached for her phone to call Vanessa. It was still dead. She plugged it into her charger and opened her computer instead. Maybe e-mail would be better: maybe she’d have a shot at forgiveness if she could explain it all in writing first—how she had liked Gregory since the beginning of the year and how everything had happened so fast. . . .

She logged into her e-mail account and was about to click on Compose New Mail when a new message caught her eye.

About the Authors

LAUREN KUNZE
grew up in Piedmont, California, and is the author of
The Ivy
. She enjoys reading, running, theater, writing bad poetry, and making Rina read her writing. At Harvard, Lauren studied English and neurobiology, and she has indefinitely deferred graduate school to focus on creative writing.

RINA ONUR
grew up in Istanbul, Turkey, and collaborated on developing the story line for
The Ivy
. She enjoys traveling, new restaurants, the Mediterranean coast, and reading Lauren’s writing. After majoring in economics at Harvard, she worked for investment banks and now is in private equity management, where she comes up with story ideas when the boss isn’t looking.

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Copyright

We’d like to thank all of the people who helped make this book happen: each other; our agent, Rosemary; our editor, Virginia, and everyone else in the Greenwillow family; our parents, Susan, Fritz, Hermine, and Mihran; our brothers, Michael and Remi; and, last but not least, Blocking Group # 49 and all of the other campus characters who may or may not have had a hand in inspiring this story.

This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used to advance the fictional narrative. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

The Ivy
Copyright © 2010 by Lauren Kunze

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kunze, Lauren.
The ivy / by Lauren Kunze with Rina Onur.
p. cm.
“Greenwillow Books.”
Summary: When Callie arrives for her freshman year at Harvard, she encounters her three vastly different roommates, new friendships, steamy romance, and scandalous secrets.
ISBN 978-0-06-196045-1 (trade bdg.)
[1. Universities and colleges—Fiction. 2. Roommates—Fiction. 3. Interpersonal
relations—Fiction. 4. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction.] I. Onur, Rina. II. Title.
PZ7.K94966Ro 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2009042525

EPub Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9780062009647

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