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"A little closer, Green; I won’t bite"

I leaned forward, close enough that htened aroundthe fabric of his shirt And I was embarrassed because I was positive he could feel ," I said I wasn’t sure if my head or heart could take it Up close, he was so warh

"No spinning," he agreed

When we began toBack and forth, nice and easy For once, my brain was perfectly content to keep its hands to itself My muscles moved slow, like honey We were co, and then eren’t evenat all My cheek rested on his shoulder The hand on the sainst the skin there

When the bells rang again, this tihts-out across the caet Lia I didn’t realize how tired I was until we separated

"Bed ti herself off, signaling so

The fire popped and hissed, buckling under a steady stream of water fro the life squeezed out of it And when the light was finally gone, settling down into a pile of uni but a screen of smoke to separate me fro me with dark eyes

TWENTY-TWO

THAT WAS SOMETHING Clancy Gray liked to do, apparently--watchZu lace her new tennis shoes before walking with her and Hina to the cabin serving as the classroo the first and only one to get bitten by a tick

Watch me wait by the fire pit with Lee for Mike to arrive hat our duties would be during our ti from theon the second story of the office, where he appeared to control everything and do nothing

Mike had mentioned that everyone older than thirteen would be responsible for doing son out in the pantry, organizing and counting our supplies--but I would have so preferred being out with Chubs in the ca around the forest with Liae not to spend my entire day with them