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S I had walked only a few feet before the smile slipped from my face and my mind drifted back to my phone call with Justin I hated that he’d called That all of it ca about it and hi I had worked so hard to bury

I needed a distraction

My phone vibrated fro it out and read the screen

Shaw: Hey

My heart did a stupid little flip God I so wasn’t that girl The type aited for the boy to admit he really really really liked her That he wanted to be with her I wasn’t that sad I kneantedto ask him for sex It was my job to o out

Well, that was to the point Not such a surprise though I was co to expect it from him

Me: I don’t date

Shaw: Except we did

Me: That wasn’t a date, remember?

Shaw: Yes, it was Rehter and part snort Cocky jerk I could al face--calm and devoid of expression Just matter of fact

Me: No offense I just don’t date

Shaw: Is this some kind of rule of yours? You knohat they say about rules

I s Rules were ree, exceptI only had a few self-imposed rules, and those I didn’t break

Shaw: You seem like a rule-breaker type

Me: Not about this

And not with hi about you The sound of your laugh And the little sounds you ulped and glanced around like someone could hear the seductive whisper of his words Thankfully, no one was looking at ain, too It was an ache in my chest And in other parts He erous thinking I shoved the phone back in ain even when I felt it vibrate against my hip I wanted a distraction, true, but he wasn’t it

Facing forward, I resuit chase away the lingering heat fro about him and how he made me feel was siet about et him

I could live with that I’d learned to live with a lot This would just be one

THE GRAPEVINE WAS A French-style country bistro just a few blocks from campus I didn’t need to drive there I walked swiftly, deterhtly over the crosswalk, ravel street Dad hated it when I was late