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So I did, rushing over and piling a few pieces of bacon on a plate, along with sos Then I ate my food so quickly that I nearly choked twice

Once I finished choking h the snowy driveway, clie that as pedal, and headed off to school

Marco and Sophia had given o when they’d decided that they were tired of driving me to and from the bus stop, which was about a ten mile drive each way

See, I lived in this very s anywhere always took sos: its infamous elk horn archsnow nine months out of the year Noas in no way, shape, or for here was like a polar bear trying to live in Hawaii--unbearable and very unpractical

When I graduate here in a fewto some place warm and one-hundred percent mountain free

Today, the normally poor road conditions were even worse due to the teht Yep, five below, I’ed to play through al Back Sunday--one ofat school I parked ht as the bell shrilled frorabbed , scra-of-a-rink parking lot I wouldn’t have cared so ed to run up a near record breaking amount of tardies

As I reached the sidewalk, about ready to take off in a full-on sprint, I had to stop because the prickling sensationat my skin like a tattoo needle I heldup a present I never knehat feeling was going to consue it for so else

A few seconds ticked by, but no new feelings ca that I wasn’t alone Which I wasn’t There were a few people lurking out by their cars, and a girl in a neon pink coat was sprinting like lass entrance doors of the school Obviously, she was trying not to be late, which hat I should have been doing But I couldn’t get e, as if the soles of my pink and black DC shoes had melted their way to the sidewalk And then, suddenly, I saw hi lot as if he had all the time in the world

My heart did this little fluttery thing that I’d never felt it do before Whoa Even froeous; the way his dark brown hair scattered messily over his head, but in an intentionally-done-perfect kind of way And his bright green eyes retime leaves He wore a pair of dark blue jeans and a black hoodie I’d guess hiot closer to him He had to be new here because, if I’d seen him before, I probably would have remembered No Scratch that I definitely would have remembered hih Which was kind of a good thing, I guess, since I was just standing there, staring at him idiotically as he made his way across the sidewalk and strolled paste to run after him And I had to ad and knocked uy trance

I flinched and shookcold, gawking at so my butt to class?

I rushed toward the entrance of the school, barely catching up with the new guy as he swung the door open He stepped to the side and held it open for entleman-like I bit my bottom lip nervously as I walked by hi so loudly in my chest that he had to be able to hear it

Okay, so I don’t knohy I did the thing that I did next--it was very unlike lued to the floor during school hours But when I suddenly felt compelled to look up at him, I actually did And boy was I in for a real shock And I’ about a literal shock; a blaze of electricity that fired through er in an electrical socket I froze,insane? I had to be going insane First the prickle and now this--rong withto end up in a ain and let out a gasp The feelingin the uy withopen I’d have been completely mortified too, except to reen eyes had widened and were locked on mine, and it almost looked like he could feel the electricity too

My pulse raced as sparks of static nipped at my skin The nited, and I could als were pouring through me simultaneously, confusion…desire…intensity, I couldn’t think straight I felt an invisible tug, drawing , I took a step toward hiht switch, his expression slipped down into a glower "Do youthe heavy metal door sla lare and a different kind of intensity burned in those beautiful green eyes of his Intense hatred My mouth dropped open as I watched hilance back