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Emma

Bran O’Connor was hard to look at

I don’t justhonest, he really was He had lank brownish hair, small no-color eyes, and really just terrible skin Like pizza-face bad is what Ion scrawny, and one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet

Ha—surprised you there, didn’t I? You thought I was just going to go on and on about hoful he looked but I really don’t need to—the popular kids at Nocturne Acade it on too

He really was a nice guy, though and there was soer on…

But I didn't know that on the first day of our new unit in AP Biology I just stood there at the front of the roo into an expression of disappointment when Mr Barron called out,

“Emma Plunkett, you’ll be lab partners with Bran O’Connor Go find your seat”

Reluctantly, I went to sit beside my new partner This was my fault—if I hadn’t been late on the first day of this new unit, I otten paired with so

Yeah, I know his naht out of a vampire romance novel but that's because he is a vaeous and coht? After all, one of an, is Blood-Bonded to a Nocturne so maybe it could happen for me too

Well, not this time, apparently because noas stuck with Bran O'Connor which was going to be a problem

I don’t mean it was a proble to be the extra attention having the ugliest guy in school asto draw from the beautiful people at Nocturne Academy

Wow, that sounds incredibly shallow