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Surprise flooded his face “How’d you know? Most can’t tell us apart”

“Your s, she wanted to hit herself Your s she had to go to the second floor “I mean, the other one didn’t smile at all, like, the entire class”

He chuckled at that “Yeah, he’s worried that shed Funny and cute? Me likey “And you’re not worried?”

“Oh, no, I plan on aging gracefully Looking forward to it” His grin was easy, lighting up eyes that couldn’t be real They had to be contacts He continued “Cocoon is hing, and his grin tipped higher “I think that’s randreat-great grand around her, he opened one side of the heavy double doors Students veered out of his way as if he was a self-contained wrecking ball “You can’t go wrong with it Eternal youth Aliens Shiny things in the pool”

“Pod people?” she added, dipping under his outstretched arm—a nice, well-defined ar, she quickly averted her eyes and headed up the stairs “So, you’re big on the golden oldies?”

She felt hi beside her In the wide stairwell that sht by her side, leaving a set around them

Dawson looked over her shoulder as they rounded the landing “What class do you have next?”

Holding up the schedule, she wrinkled her nose “Uh…history in roo it “Roouy like hiree “Why is that?”

“Two things,” he said, handing the schedule back to her “We have art and then last period—gyether Or it could just be ht things to say? Score He held the second door open for her, and she added “gentle to say

Finally, she asked, “What class do you have next?”

“Science on the first floor”

Her brows shot up as she glanced around As expected, people were definitely staring Mostly girls “Then why are you on the second floor?”

“Because I wanted to be” He said it so matter-of-factly that she had the iular basis

His eyesin his starearound her In a sudden uy like Dawson and send her off to an all girls’ school Boys like hi as the Mississippi behind the into her class—which couldn’t be too far away now—as fast as she could, because the last thing Bethany wanted was another broken heart