Silla's Busting Advanture

  Part One: The Alpha Chassis and the Anatomic Flaw For Mentari Rakaprabawa, dating Drew Starkey was an extreme sport. It was, simultaneously, the most bewilderingly proud and soul-crushingly exhausting commitment of her short, intense life. She wasn't supposed to be here. She was supposed to be a laser-focused, pre-med ascetic, burning the midnight oil in the dimly lit corner of the university library, her ambition serving as her only boyfriend. Mentari was an international student, and every second she spent stateside, every dollar she spent on tuition, was a direct investment in her mother's future. Getting into the University of North Carolina from Jakarta, Indonesia, had been a solo mission executed with terrifying precision. She missed the humid, sticky comfort of her home, and especially her mother, but she knew this was the price of the future she was building—a future where her mom could retire far away from the choking noise and relentless, grey pollution of the J...