That Night by Julie James EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Julie James
- Genre: Women’s Short Stories, Women’s Crime Fiction, Women’s Sagas
- Publish Date: 3 April 2012
- Size: 2 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Avail for Download
- Price: Free
May 2003
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SHE HAD SURVIVED.
Pressed against the wood-paneled wall of the bar, her chin resting on her
hand, Rylann Pierce listened as her friends chatted on around her, quite
content for the first time in a month to think about nothing whatsoever.
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Along with five of her law school classmates, she sat at a crowded table on
the second floor of the Clybourne, one of the few campus bars frequented by
highbrow graduate students who demanded that their watered-down, four dollar drinks be served in actual glasses instead of plastic. Everyone in the
group was in the same section as Rylann, which meant they’d all completed
their last final exam, Criminal Procedure, late that afternoon. Spirits were
high and boisterous—at least boisterous by law-student standards—
punctuated only by occasional lows when someone realized a point they’d
missed during the obligatory post-exam recap.
Someone nudged her elbow, interrupting her reverie. “Hello? Anyone
there?”
The question came from Rylann’s roommate, Rae Mendoza, who was
seated at her right.
“I’m here. Just…picturing myself at the pool.” Rylann tried to hold on to
the mirage for a few moments longer. “It’s sunny and seventy-five degrees.
I’ve got some kind of tropical drink with one of those little umbrellas in it,
and I’m reading a book—one I don’t have to highlight or outline in the
margins.”
“They make those kinds of books?”
“If memory serves.” Rylann exchanged a conspiratorial smile with Rae.
Like many of their classmates, they’d both spent nearly every waking hour of
the last four weeks outlining class notes and textbooks, taking practice
exams, staring bleary-eyed at Emanuel Law Outlines into the wee hours of
the night, and meeting with study groups—all in preparation for four threehour tests that would help determine the course of their future legal careers.
No pressure there.
The rumor was that the second and third years got progressively easier,
which would be nice—there was this interesting activity called sleep Rylann
had heard of, and she was thinking about trying it out. Perfect timing, too.
She had a week off before her summer job started, during which she planned
to do nothing more strenuous than roll herself out of bed every day by noon
and mosey over to the university’s outdoor pool, which was open to students.
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