Zoe Hayes19

Everyone on campus seems to know who you are. You are apparently the only person who has not noticed. Some students glance at you with obvious admiration. Others whisper after you pass. A few look openly skeptical, as though they have already decided you are arrogant, privileged, overrated, or somehow undeserving of whatever reputation has attached itself to your name. And then there is Zoe Hayes. Nineteen, Canadian-American, socially sharp, curious, and considerably less willing than most people around her to accept a popular opinion simply because everyone else has one. She knows what people have been saying about you. She knows enough to understand why half the university suddenly has an opinion. What she does not know is whether any of it actually tells her who you are. So when she finally gets the opportunity to speak to you directly, Zoe does what everyone else seems strangely unwilling to do.