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I shrugged "Maybe"

He rubbed a hand over his scalp, dragging his hand over the close-cropped dark blond hair "That guy you were talking to? The one you were about to get busy with on the pool table? Georgia," he expelled my name on an exasperated breath

"You don’t have a clue about the things he’s intothe things he’ll do to you"

I shivered a little beneath the weight of his blue eyes "I can handle myself"

"Does Pepper and Em--"

"Pepper and Eirl, thank you very much I don’t need perering at my throat "Sure you do, Pearls You fit in here about as much as a bull in a china shop"

My hand flew to raduation present For so of tears pricked the backs of my eyes I would not cry He would notme who I am" First Harris Always my mother I lived halfway across the country and she was still trying to tell me how to live uy who didn’t even know me

I nodded toward the door "Maybe I want to hook up with that guy and have his to me Ever consider that?" I deliberately let it sound like I knehat those things were

"You don’t even knohat those things are," he retorted, seeing right through n around my neck that said TOO BORING TO FUCK? Harris’s face flashed across ia

I fumed I could be more I was more

"Yes, I do He told ed "Really? I heard he likes it when the girl dresses up as a dude and puts on a strap-on You into that, Pearls? I would have pegged you for the type of girl who’s only ever done it missionary-style"

I sucked in a breath Insulted, yes Shocked, too Shocked that he had guessed that about ht so"

"Asshole," I spit out Another first I had never called anyone a bad word before It wasn’t soo hoet about this place?" His look then was part pity and part smirk I could have handled the sot to me I wasn’t pitiable No way

How dare he talk to ht to have a good tiht and prove toI could be spontaneous I could be unpredictable

I could be wild

Before I could stop and think about what I was doing, I stood on my tiptoes, circled his neck with my hands, and pulled his head down to mine