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"I don’t want to let you leave, brainiac But I won’t let boxing fuck up what you’re doing at school Besides, with you next to et ame, and that isn’t a side of me that you need to see first-hand"

"I will see you before the fight, though?"

He nodded his head and sht?"

"What do I wear?" I ask nervously

"Wear whatever you want" He chuckled "I’ you naked anyway"

And there was the cocky arrogant bastard that I knew and loved I raised rabbed h the door I’d left him my spare set of keys to lock up behind hie step for h He wouldn’t abuse the privilege

MY DAY WENT BY MERCIFULLY quickly, and O’Connell was right to send me to school I’d have driven him nuts at home It took me over an hour to choose what to wear In the end, I settled for my best pair of dark jeans, a tank top, and a pretty off-the-shoulder sweater I didn’t kno sured this would do Kieran called forO’Connell had long since faded under my worry for hi up my door

"Uh, huh," Ion?" he questioned in a serious tone that was totally at odds with his usual jovial self

"I’ hurt," I blurted out

Kieran grinned big "E, lovely I don’t knohat you did to hiht, but today, he’s electric"

He winked atto hihed out loud