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Most of the class shook their heads "Okay, you guys have fifteen est you use the tirade doesn’t have to take the final exaot their attention They dropped their eyes back to their exams

She turned her attention to her co to look busy Her stos days of this She was voht This all started when Ephrai with the State Police

Madison couldn’t believe she could miss one person, a one and she couldn’t sleep She was love sick There was no getting around it She loved Ephraim

Love For the first time in her life she was in love with a ht a enerous, funny and sweet He was also calm and patient For the past three months he’d told her he loved her without any resistance or expectations and he never once became upset or distant when she didn’t say it back Ephraiht up how she felt He see her what he felt

He was so unselfish that he est bitch God, she didn’t deserve hiot home she would tell hi and a drive somewhere romantic followed by five or six hours under the sheets Maybe she should make a romantic meal

Maybe not

Her stomach flipped over at the idea She clutched her stohed with relief when the bell dismissed her class Exams were dropped off on her desk as they made their way noisily out of the roood," sheto hunt down a can of ginger ale and crash on the couch in the teacher’s lounge for the next forty-five minutes

"Madison!" Chris hissed from the doorway

She could cry She really could "What?"

He ignored the irritation in her voice and took it as invitation and walked in, shutting the door behind hiht that he called in the "

Chris looked upset Actually now that she took the tiood at all His hair, which was short and usually swept foras ot to shave and he earing the same clothes he wore yesterday for his date with Ah his hair "Is he still co on? You’ve been acting funny since you caht?" She was a sweet girl even though she had a bit of a reputation

His eyes widened "What do you mean?"

"I et home You can talk to me you know"

He crossed his arms over his chest and looked around "With you?" He looked surprised

"Yes, uy but I can answer questions about girls, probably better than Ephraim"

His face paled "I can’t talk to you about this"

She didn’t have the patience for this today "Don’t you have a class to go to?" she snapped a little harsher than she planned Her head was spinning almost as fast as her stomach

Chris put his hands up in surrender "Holy shit, I didn’t knoas that time of the month, Madison"

Her teht now You know you are supposed to call e I’ clicked, soood She sat back down and tore her desk apart looking for her date book

"Whoa, cal?" Chris moved around the desk ready to help

"Aha!" She found it in her botto it up

Chris’s finger blocked her view "What’s that sad face er away and looked She sed loud "That means I’m…" She counted from that date to today’s "Shit"

"What?" He looked worried

"I gotta go"

"Where?" He watched as she grabbed her purse, nearly knocking her computer off the desk with an elbow

"I have so I really have to do," the words rushed out of her mouth She stumbled out into the hall