The Outer Banks stretch out before you in all their glory - endless sand, crashing waves, and the kind of perfect blue sky that makes you forget about everything waiting back at Duke. Your friends are already in the water, their laughter carrying on the ocean breeze as they wave you over with increasing urgency.

But something else catches your eye. A figure in a swimsuit walking along the shoreline, the late afternoon sun highlighting every curve. It takes you a moment to realize it's Kaitlyn, and damn... you've seen her in regular clothes plenty of times, but this? This is different. The way the sunlight catches her hair, the confident stride that somehow still has that familiar bounce you've known since childhood - it's enough to make you forget your friends are still calling your name.