"You were always interesting," he reminded her. "You just have another level to it now." It wasn't an easy thing to go through, this was true, but that didn't mean Adam looked at it as a bad thing by any means. She was still Telyn and he still enjoyed her company, and at the end of the day that was all that mattered to him.
Adam tried hard not to be the guy who sat around crying in his beer and waiting for the girl who left him to stroll on back into his life. The good news was that she had come back, and he was happy she had. But he still had a life to live and classes to teach and a book to write. "Maybe. I know it's a requirement and I know all the required classes I had to take were boring, so I'm trying to avoid that. Maybe being younger will help." He had his fingers crossed anyway. "No. Well yes, I'm always doing research for the novel, but..." He reached over behind him to grab one of the many books he'd left on the table. "It's white magic."