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Adaave me a quizzical smile and then said, "Anytime you need me, you call, okay?"

I nodded

"Okay, sweetheart I’ll see you later"

"Bye"

He grinned atto spread over et into his car and drive away it occurred to me that er the only thing attracted to Adae body was now too

Chapter 2

Adam’s broas puckered as he lifted his head froave me a small, a a fourteen year old It’s all a bit Lolita-like"

I laughed at his discomfort "It’s not as if you felt the same way about me back then

Anyway, now that I’ave ?"

Now his brow knit together coes "Good point," he muttered

"Here" I handed hih, and took the one with hts out of his hands "This is from the year after that"

Saturday, Septe at Ada et that already… I took a deep breath, holding theattable mirror, I exhaled slowly and mentally coached myself to calm down As much as I tried, I could not stop the wild flutter of butterflies in ave up and leaned back into the mirror to liberally apply mascara since it was the onlyfair eye-lashes so no one could tell how long they were until I started wearing blackand now that they were black they made my pale blue eyes even bluer

Hopefully the h I was tall, I was still skinny with se of my nose that made me feel about five years old instead of fifteen

I had a date tonight My first date With Sa he o years older than me and he was cute and cool and I really, really liked him

As much as I could like any boy asn’t Adam

Not that Adam was a boy any more

A knock sounded athair for the hundredth tiht it was probably my Mum, who seemed to be at once both more excited than me about the date, and also more concerned

To my surprise, the head that popped around the door wasn’t Mu in htly at hi here?"

He stepped inside and closed the door, his brows drawing together in consternation as I stood up to greet hith ofa white sleeveless shift dress It had a an to cover uessing the short heht of me as a little sister he needed to protect pissed me off I crossed ht his eyes back up to ht We both wanted to drop by for the momentous occasion Who is he?"

I rolledtone "Just a boy"

"And how old is this boy?" Adam asked softly as he took a few steps toward e the question How old?"

"Sareed to this?"

He didn’t mention Clark, since Clark was far s than Mu like a nervous chicken downstairs"

"That’s because Sa that stubborn tilt to his chin

"Where is he taking you?"

"Cinerabbed h "Yes-uh"

"And you won’t let him touch you"

It wasn’t a question