College Stories. My Girlfriend Is Too Naive--- Free -

I stared at her.

Even if that means losing five bucks to the penny tray once in a while. College Stories. My Girlfriend Is Too Naive--- Free

She is a political science major who believes that every politician is “trying their best.” She once wrote a five-page paper arguing that negative attack ads should be illegal because they hurt people’s feelings. Her professor gave her a C+ and wrote “Bless your heart” in the margin. She framed it. I stared at her

That’s when I realized I had it backwards. I thought I was protecting her. But she was protecting me. She was the one pulling me back from the ledge of cynicism that college so eagerly pushes you toward. Her professor gave her a C+ and wrote

And then she said something that broke my brain.

Emily didn’t give me a pep talk. She didn’t tell me it would be fine. She just pulled up a chair, handed me her laptop, and showed me a YouTube playlist called “Dogs Who Can’t Catch.” For forty-five minutes, we watched golden retrievers get hit in the face with tennis balls.

Last week, she almost signed a lease for a basement apartment that had a “cozy water feature.” The landlord called it “passive humidity.” Emily thought it sounded “medieval and romantic.” I had to explain that the carpet was squishing. She looked at me with those big, earnest eyes and said, “Maybe it’s a hot spring?”