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I took deep breaths and calot ticked atto take soht Keep walking," Harry shouted as we left them behind

"Are we allowed to kill teaainst it," I said "But let’s hit the eneet to those assholes later"

We lined up with the rest of our allies The Dungeon Masters, dressed in their long flowing robes and fake Methuselah beards stood atop a tall tower in the middle of the battlefield

"Ten minutes until battle commences," one said in a well-practiced announcer’s voice

We produced our weapons for inspection by the brightly clad faerie referees

One of them held up Elyssa’s dual swords He balanced thereat balance They’re just like Ninja Sai short swords"

She beaood are they?"

"Totally," he said, looking lost in her eyes, the poor nerd

"Ahelanced at it, hefted it, and handed it back without a word I felt uess all of us can’t be foam sword masters," I said with a huff

"I’m a perfectionist" She pecked ave them last-minute pointers, then took them to the left flank Nyte and Ash were flushed with excitee separating us from the Conanites, the enemy army Pine trees lined the town periuarded the outer boundaries To our right was the parking lot and bleachers for those who enjoyed watching nerds beat the crap out of each other

I pointed to a walled-in fort in the oal," I said "We old"

Elyssa pointed to a se "Why not there?"

"It doesn’t have a wall"

"The hedge is thick enough to keep people froh it and it’s a save her a curious glance "I’ve been doing this a while Any time my squad took and held that center fort, we survived"

She shrugged "Okay, fearless leader"

A gong sounded and the battle started

The armies rushed forward to battle with a roar Nyte and Ash went down in the first skirmish Elyssa whirled, struck, parried and took down enemy squads whenever they attacked She made me look like a rank novice After several sh the enemy’s last line of defense

Elyssa beca The referees looked absolutely as confused as I was but they whistled away as she cut through the ene chi Harry and Mark gaped at her I gaped at her The faerie refs gaped at her She looked at us and went red in the face The rest of our arratulations

After the celebrations died down and seventy percent of the guys present had asked for Elyssa’s hand inht like that?" I asked "You’re a but happy, however In fact, she looked downright euess"

"Yeah, because watching movies"You’ve taken martial arts, haven’t you?"

"Yes," she said a trifle too quickly "My dad uess it came in handy today"

I wasn’t sure if that was the whole truth, but it felt truthful at least Besides, I was too ht I wanted her so badly right then that it was all I could do not to push her into one of the huts and ravish her "I want you," I said

She grinned "You’re so easy All a girl has to do is whirl a sword, kill a few eneh raced throughbolt

I realized that if I started kissing her there would be no stopping ood I thought of Stacey’s sandpaper tongue That didn’t work I took deep breaths and thought of Stacey playing baseball Nothing quenched the unbearable heat of my desire for Elyssa

"Well?" she asked, a beet cleaned up"

She rolled her eyes "Seriously? You want , but--"

"That’s right Nothing is wrong with sex You and I are both eighteen Barely legal but adults" She bit ht today was your birthday" She produced her smartphone from some secret place and held the screen tobold letters surrounded by little hearts

"I’otten all aboutboy Why can’t you let nature take its course? Are you afraid?"

"No, of course not" I was petrified Partly due to irls and partly because Elyssa was a force to be reckoned with She really was going to think so with me if I didn’t act like any other testosterone-fueled teenager "I just want it to be special Not rushed because of spur-of-the-hed "I think so one too y plummeted and the little sex-obsessed demon perched on round where he could sulk about my idiocy Now that I could safely kiss her, it felt aard We walked back to the cars in silence, though Ash and Nyteincessantly about how cool their ten le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>