Page 15 (1/2)

Erin’s arhtened "Of course you did"

Chapter 10

"Do you go to the tutoring sessions? I’ve only been a couple of ti you there" Benji’s voice snapped my attention from Lucas

"Huh?"

He chuckled as I shoved my econ text into the backpack at lance at Lucas Again

"Tutoring sessions? I wish I could, but I have another class at the sa up, after my teek hiatus from sanity"

Suddenly I realized--if Benji had attended the tutoring sessions, that meant he had seen Landon I’d also deduced, froay So hequestions such as Exactly how hot is the econ tutor?

"So you’ve been to a couple of sessions, huh?"

He nodded, and I decided to start with so way more fundamental

"Is there any chance the tutor is, you know, gay?" I heldfor his answer

"What, like I hand out a survey?" He laughed when I blinked, worried I’d just offended hi with ya I’h if he did, he’d be a little out of ue" He sucked in and patted his sto a couple of weeks at the gy up bread for the weekend wouldn’t take care of"

I rolled uy Need to lose five pounds? Go without ketchup for a couple of weeks Probleed up the stairs "I really hate you right now"

He laughed, more so when my eyes scanned the space between Lucas’s seat and the door He was gone "So, you’re trading e you aren’t the only girl--or guy--in Heller’s class who thinks the tutor’s hot like a spicy ta isregistered after I ht in from of me "Lucas… is the tutor?"

Benji halted witharound us "I didn’t know his naed me from the heavy flow of foot traffic "You didn’t knoas the tutor?" He s to the sessions now, huh? I mean, technically, you’re off-liame or I wouldn’t tease you" He leaned his face down and looked into my eyes "Jacqueline? What the hell?"

I considered the emails he wrote to me as Landon, and Lucas’s stares, his texts… and o After which he hadn’t texted Or emailed Or told me he was Landon!

"I didn’t know" Like I needed oneto make me feel like an utter idiot

"Hello, Ms Obvious, I sorta deduced that froht you knew?"

I shook my head "He knew I didn’t know" I frowned "And what do you mean, that I’m off-limits?"

He lifted one shoulder "My roommate tutored fresh sessions for, but they aren’t allowed to, you know, fraternize with those students Conflict of interest Not as big of a deal as GTAs or professors--who are advised against hooking up with any student at all Still, it’s not like it doesn’t happen We’re all human"

I stared at the floor "A clueless? How did I not know?"

Benji tucked a finger underthere’s been sohed at the look onsession, and neither of his alter egos told you he was the sauy, hoere you supposed to know, exactly?"

The tension in ht"

"Of course I’ht Nohat?"

My jaw locked "No idea But one thing’s for sure--I’ him I know"

Benji shook his head, one ared back into the streaistered for econ, I had no idea that I’d be in for this level of reality-show dra fat bonus"

Erin: I signed us up for a self-defense class

Me: What??

Erin: Put on by the campus po-po Saturdays 9-noon, starts this week, skips the weekend after Thanksgiving, then 2 et to beat the shit outta guys in those big puffy suits!!! I’ve alanted to really kick the crap outta souilt-free!

Me: You’re a sick girl

Erin: Guilty as charged :)

On Friday, I didn’t look in Landon/Lucas’s direction once Not one single time It had been a week since our university-prohibited makeout Was that the pull for him? That I was forbidden fruit? I’d show hi up, Benji looked overover his forehead

"Hey, Jackie"

Kennedy hadn’t spoken toa trite cliché and the very textbook I was currently holding I pulled a steadying breath through my nose and turned "Kennedy" I waited, sure he had soh I had no idea what it was

"Are you heading ho? If so, we should carpool You know, make that four-hour drive a little less ether?"

He shrugged and flicked his head to the side with a faintly di his hair out of his eyes was an arresting sight, and he dah, it kind of pissed me off