A girl (part 4)

Anna had a decent summer, though she spent a lot of it missing her new boyfriend, and came back for her second year of college ready to face whatever would come her way. Fortunately for her, she didn't have too much to face that year. Classes weren't overly difficult (she was able to get all B+'s and A-'s without overly exerting herself) and her relationship with her boyfriend seemed pretty solid.

It was junior year when a few unpleasant things happened. First, her grandma died. Then a few months later, her boyfriend dumped her, explaining that he felt they weren't going anywhere and that he had actually wanted to move on sooner but felt bad about the grandma situation. His concern for her was some consolation, and a healthy portion of ice cream combined with crying to some of the friends she had met i psychology classes helped with both situations. Sadly, it didn't help enough to keep Anna from ending up with a D halfway through one of her classes and deciding to withdraw from it. She felt a little bad about that, but she was still able to pull a B average in her other classes, so it wasn't so bad.

By senior year, Anna had recovered and was ready to start looking for a job in the real world. She was also ready, it turned out, to meet a new man. They met at a debate about social reform. It turned out he was actually a mathematician, but that didn't bother Anna too much. He was one of the rare breed of geniuses (or at least people who Anna viewed as geniuses) who somehow had also learned how to have a good time. And being from New York City, it seemed he knew even more about having a good time than Anna did.

Because of this man, senior year was Anna's best year yet. Her grades ended up being not quite as good as they could have been, but it turned out the same thing happened to him, and neither of them cared. Anna still ended up with a couple different job offers, but what mattered most to her was his job offer in New York City, the offer for the dream accountant position he had always wanted, strange as that sounds. Anna told him she would follow him there if that was what it took for them to be together, and the day after graduation, he forced her to prove it by asking her to marry him. She didn't even hesitate.

They threw together a simple wedding and somehow managed to be married in mid-August, just before he started work in late September. Anna had never been happier. Even working in New York, her husband was no great man that anyone would ever hear of, but he was her great man, and that was enough for her. Perhaps if she hadn't been such a simple, old-fashioned girl from a small town, she wouldn't have been so eager to follow him anywhere, but as it was, she was willing to do most anything for him, and in this case, that made them both very happy.