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"But you’re not going to do that"

He stared at ht?"

"Look" He cleared his throat Leaning forward, his hands gripped his silverware--a knife in one hand and a fork in the other He started talking, but I couldn’t look away from his hands His voice drifted in from a distance His knuckles turned white They were the only thing I could focus on My nerves crawled upto choke aze away froht With Rankin I will I promise"

"Okay"

"I really will I mean it"

"Okay" I nodded "I know you will"

"So when your boyfriend wants to knohere I aht, and Rankin will never know your name I promise" He spoke with veherade "You didn’t put us in that situation last night It just happened that ere there I know that You’d never hurt ain

"I know" I reached forward and eased the knife and fork out of his hands "But these guys, I’rin "They were my mom’s I can’t let you harm the cutlery"

He stared at his hands, as if he hadn’t realized he had the utensils in a death grip A second later, he laughed It was abrupt, as if he’d surprised hih, this one smoother, slid out and then a third The last one finally sounded genuine, and some ofto worry about, right? I wasn’t cootten mixed up in And I didn’t want to know

REAL VS PUBLIC

TAYLOR

"Where’s your boyfriend?"

I was sitting in y class when that question caht it was Jason, but when I saas Logan,here?"

He s into the chair beside er "The real question is why did it taketo properly stalk you? Duh I can’t stalk the chick I’y class That’s Creeping 101"