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"I’ with you," I say I place iving her the opportunity to object

She doesn’t even try to object, though She begins running, so I fall into a steady stride with her I’ the entire run back to the house Pissed that I never got to the bottoht be dealing with the same shit

We don’t speak the entire run back to her house until she turns and waves good-bye at the edge of her driveway "I guess I’ll see you later?" she says, walking backward toward her house

"Absolutely," I say, knowing full well I’ll be seeing her again Especially now that I knohere she lives

She smiles and turns toward her house and it isn’t until she’s halfway up her driveway that I realize I don’t even have a way to contact her She doesn’t have a Facebook, so I can’t contact her that way I don’t know her phone number I can’t really just show up at her house unannounced

I don’t want her to walk away until I know for sure I’ll talk to her again

I immediately twist the lid off rass I put the lid back on it

"Sky, wait," I yell She pauses and turns back around "Do me a favor?"

"Yeah?"

I toss her the conveniently empty bottle of water She catches it, then nods and runs inside to refill it I pull my cell phone from my pocket and immediately text Daniel

Sky Davis Girl Grayson was talking about Saturday night? Does she have a boyfriend?

Sky opens her front door and begins to make her way back outside when he responds

She has several fro at the text when she reaches me with the water I take it from her and down a drink, not sure why it’s hard for me to find truth in Daniel’s text As uarded that she doesn’t let people in that easily Based on my interaction with her, she just doesn’t fit the description that’s being painted of her by everyone else

I put the lid back on the water bottle and do my best to keep my eyes focused on hers, but daht now "Do you run track?" I ask her, atte to stay focused

She covers her stomach with her ar so obvious about checking her out The last thing I want to do is make her unco about trying out, though"

"You should You’re barely out of breath and you just ran close to five miles Are you a senior?"

She smiles That’s twice she’s s to mess with my head

"Shouldn’t you already know if I’ on your stalking skills"

I laugh "Well, you make it sort of difficult to stalk you I couldn’t even find you on Facebook"

She s count Three

"I’m not on Facebook," she says "I don’t have internet access"

I can’t tell if she’s lying to lethonest about not having internet access I don’t knohich one is harder to believe "What about your phone? You can’t get internet on your phone?"

She lifts her arhten her ponytail and I feel like I’ht now "No phone My y No TV, either"

I wait for her to laugh, but it’s obvious in just a few short seconds that she’s coood How the hell aet in touch with her? Not that I need to I just have a pretty good feeling I’ll want to "Shit" I laugh "You’re serious? What do you do for fun?"

She shrugs "I run"

Yes, she certainly does And if I have anything to do with it, she won’t be running alone, any toward her, "you wouldn’t happen to knohat ti runs, would you?"

She sucks in a quick breath, then attempts to control it with a smile Three and a half

"I don’t know if you’d want to get up that early," she says

If she only kneould go so far as to never sleep again if she would just agree to run with me I lean in a little closer and lower et up that early"

As soon as her fourth smile appears, she disappears It happens so fast, I don’t even have time to react The sound she makes when she smacks the pavement makes me wince I immediately kneel down and roll her over

"Sky?" I say, shaking her She’s out cold I look toward her house, then scoop her up and rush her to the door I don’t bother knocking, since I have no extra hands I liftsomeone is home to let s open and a woman appears She looks at nizes Sky in my arms

"Oh, my God!" She immediately opens the door to let me in

"She passed out in the driveway," I say "I think she’s dehydrated"