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"Nowhere important" I don’t take her offered hand Don’t want to encourage the fluttering of her eyelashes Don’t want to be looked at like that Don’t want to be looked at at all

When Maggie’s eyebro up, Lyric glances at me with her brow cocked "You’ll have to excuse Ayden," she says to Maggie "He’s a man of feords"

"Oh, the sexy silent type," she says, choum "Nice"

"No, just the silent, doesn’t like to chat type," I say, switchingLyric would end the conversation and just take et the fuck out of this overcrowded, stuffy hall

"I don’t get it" Maggie blinks at Lyric for help

"It doesn’tme down the hallway

"We so need to work on your people skills," she tells h the h "Okay"

I sigh, giving up on the argu on around roup lingering around the benches in the quad Ithey’ll be the best start toward finding ives irl with purple hair flips ets shittier from there Everyone at this damn school seems to hate me, and the other half seems overly interested I don’t want that Don’t want their stares I just want to be left alone, since I’ll be out of here when the week passes

I do my best to keep my distance from most people, and spend lunchtih, things really go to shit It’s PE, which is bad enough, but I also have it with Lyric

"You have been avoiding me," she says as she waltzes up to the botto for class to start She has on a red T-shirt and short, black gys "What’s up with that?"

"When was I avoiding you?" I ask, fiddling with the drawstring on my own shorts

"At lunch" She sits down beside s "I looked everywhere for you Where the hell were you?"

I pick at a hole in the bottom of my shorts "I ate in the bathroom"

Her nose crinkles "Ew, Ayden No, no, no Just no"

I shrug "It was better than being stared at"

"Who’s staring at you?"