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She kicks off the locker and begins to walk away, but I grab her arainst the locker and she gasps while I block her in with ain

I reach my hand up to her face and slide it under her jaw, then run ainst mine and her breaths come in quicker succession

"I wish I had kissed you Saturday night," I whisper, staring down at her mouth She parts her lips and I continue to runwhat you taste like" I press my thumb to the center of her lips and I quickly lean in and kiss her I pull away just as fast, though, because that tease just about kills me Her eyes are closed and I release her face and walk away

I’m pretty sure I just beca away fros I’ve ever done

"Hey, whisker biscuit," Daniel says, cutting in line to stand in front of h and shake my head I swear I don’t knohere he comes up with this shit

"Well, you don’t like it when I call you Hopeless Or cunt nugget Or piss flap Or--"

"You could just call me Holder"

"Everyone else calls you Holder and I hate everyone else, so no I can’t" He takes two empty trays and hands me one He nods in the direction of Sky’s table "So, I hope your ditching ht for cheese tits over there orth it"

"Her name is Sky," I correct

"Well I can’t call her Sky Everyone else calls her Sky and I hate everyone else, so"

I laugh "Well then why do you call Valerie by her name?"

He spins around "Who’s Valerie?" he asks, looking at irlfriend? Or current girlfriend Whatever she is"

Daniel laughs "No, man Her name isn’t Valerie, it’s Tessa"

What the hell?

"I call her Val because it’s short for Valium and I always tell her she needs to take that shit by the bucketful I wasn’t lying when I said she was fucking crazy"

"Do you call anyone by their actual name?"

He ponders my question for a second, then looks at ive up "I’ with Sky today," I tell him "You want to sit with us?"

Daniel shakes his head "Nah Val’s having a good day so I better take advantage of it" He takes his change from the cafeteria cashier "See you later, buttshark"

I’ with Val I don’t know if I’et a dose of Daniel yet I pay for my food and walk toward their table When I reach the Breckin a recap of our weekend Breckin sees me walk up behind her but he just winks and doesn’t let her know I’

"He showed up at s, we finally ca that we just misunderstood each other Then we baked, I read hiht and cooked for me Then ent to my room and"

I drop ," I say "I’d love to hear e did next"

She shoots rin when she sees my tray beside hers, then she rolls her eyes and turns back to Breckin "Then we broke the record for best first kiss in the history of first kisses without even kissing"

"Ily boring weekend," I say

Breckin shootsSky He just scored ," Sky clarifies "He means that in a nice way"

Breckin picks up his fork and looks back and forth between us "Not much confuses me But you two are an exception"

He’s not the only one confused by us I’m seriously confused by us I’ve never felt this co We haven’t even kissed Although I did give her one hell of a nonkiss Just thinking about it has ht?"

She wipes her

I wink at her, knowing that’s her stubborn way of saying she’s not busy

"Was it the smut I let her borrow that she read to you?" Breckin asks

"Sh "I don’t think it was smut, but I didn’t catch most of the book because my mind was a little sidetracked"

Sky slaps ht and you weren’t even paying attention?"

I throw my arm over her shoulder and pull her to me, then kiss her on the side of the head "I already told you I was paying attention," I whisper in her ear "Just not to the words co out of your h Not a bad book I didn’t think I’d ever be interested in a roonna find a way out of that shit"