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Girl on the right isn’t about to drop this opportunity ‘Was he really Reid Alexander?’

Before I can say a word, Claudia hoots a laugh ‘Are you guys high right now? Reid Alexander, on campus, and no one noticed? Give me a break’

Their faces fall ‘Oh’

Then left side girl rallies ‘Then that guy – he’s goes here? To Cal?’

I shake ’

‘A,’ they say in unison, dismayed, and my scowl narrows on them

‘And he’s my boyfriend’ Whoa Where did that tone come from?

Unbothered by any sense of diploirl snorts ‘He is?’

Her friend tries to save face – by saying the ratulations – I mean – he looks just like Reid Alexander, so obviously he’s hot Aheh’

‘Uh Thanks?’

After they scuttle away, I say, ‘That eird’

I feel Claudia’s eyes onReid Alexander?’

I look into her dark eyes, and le thing to say

‘Has anyone ever told you that you do not have a poker face?’

Lips twisting, I admit, ‘Yeah, I les her head and sirl, aren’t you? From last summer’

Oh, yay I’d escaped two zealous Reid Alexander groupies, only to find out I’erous of them all ‘And you’re … a Reid Alexander fan?’

‘Hell, no My little sisters are They’re rabid about him He seems like a pretentious, untalented asshole to me’

I blink

‘Note I said seems I haven’t actually seen any of his fil you I think Unless you care to refute that?’

‘Which part?’

She shrugs ‘Any of it I’h softly as our class in their jackets

‘Oh My Holy Fucking Hell,’ Raul says ‘Can we please go inside to do this?’

‘Afro resolutely in the direction of the library ‘Brr! Dayuo’ Turning and pointing a finger, she adds, ‘You guys did not hearher lips and tossing an invisible key over her shoulder ‘We all wanted to get the hell outta soranted about home just isn’t better elsewhere’

Claudia leans closer as we head towards the library ‘Psychology oing to endear her to me anytime soon – I don’t care how cute her butt is in those jeans Although she does have a valid point about home and elsewhere So … About the pretty boy –?’

I smile and meet her eyes ‘He’s not a lost cause’

She returns h for me’

I have Reid’s fan sites bookmarked, so I can watch him from a distance, like everyone else has to My annoyance is increasing, especially when sites claiers he stands next to at so love and desire to have his babies Or soure out who I am and where I’m from and why in the world Reid Alexander would even bother with es feels a little stalkerish too On the other hand, this is no different than going to friends’ Facebook profiles and browsing through photos of the thing Where Reid is concerned, I’ve been curious fro him hopeless, days after we met

With his mother beside him on the red carpet at his preets his looks Their colouring is exactly the same, as well as their features – with the exception of the angled jaw bestowed by his father Lucy Alexander is stunning and elegant, her pride in her son evident in the way she watches hiraphs and leans in to take photos with the beside-theainst the velvet rope

When I ca hisabout it He was unconvinced that she’d want to go, so I told him the only way he’d knoas to ask

‘You’d have thought I just handed her an Oscar,’ he said later, filling asped and teared up, and I was thinking, Oh, great, I’ve upset her And then she said, ‘Don’t you want to take Dori?’ So I told her you couldn’t get away that night She stepped forward and hugged me, which she hasn’t done in – I don’t know – it feels like years, and then she said she’d love to go’

‘I told you so,’ I sing-songed, and he laughed

‘You just live for the times you’re able to say that, don’t you?’

‘Yeah, and lucky for et to say it a lot’

‘Haha Very funny, Miss Cantrell I’ll have to try to hand out those little treats et spoiled’

‘Oh, so now you can control the frequency of your wrongness?’ I scoffed, trying not to giggle ‘Hoill you do that?’