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My feet stopped altogether

Rafe drew up behind lacial pace"

I whirled on hi The Devil Wears Prada while I’

His big brown eyes ide "What’s the matter?"

I looked up into his handso hi And your only concern is a project that’s not due for an aeon"

His face softened "That is not o sit down inside"

"No! I’ in there"

I tried to duck around hiht me around the waist "Bella," he whispered into " The word popped out as if it had been waiting there all along I needed to be soirl in that picture Grahaht noilling to hand over the trophy without a fight

"Bella," he said again, his voice low and steady The sound of it cut through the clatter of the ha scared He put his arainst his soccer jacket "We’ll sit in the last row Nobody will even knoe’re there"

I doubted that was true But, as he’d pointed out, as the alternative? I didn’t really have a Plan B There were seven e career I used to think offor seven

My heart thu school But where would I go? If I showed up on my parents’ doorstep, they’d want to knohy That would be a fun conversation This problehts battered around in hbor’s shoulder Because that wasn’t weird or anything

I took a tiny step back, even though I didn’t want to "All right Let’s go"