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He flashed that chared “I hope to see you there” The unsaid, as a friend, no longer needed to be uttered, because it was clear he only wanted to make me feel included, as a teacher and a newcorim, Texas
When he was out of earshot, I turned toordeal and droppedas it felt?”
“It wasn’t that bad,” Mara insisted, but I didn’t need to look up to see the sy with the sood”
“That’s what I was afraid of, because it felt terrible” Worse than terrible, and it served as a perfect reo outside ri I’d done in , as my mom had told me on multiple occasions
“It was bold of you to assume, and that was pretty bad ass”
I looked up and stared at? He barely knows I’m a woman, never mind interested It’s time to call time of death on this crush Permanently” It ell past time, truth be told
“Or maybe you could just ask him out I heard there are women who’ve done that and lived to tell the tale” I appreciated Mara’s sarcasht was not one of those times
I shook my head at her advice because it was pointless “Mara I have been dropping hints and signs galore, and nothing” It had a, in fact “So, either he is so uninterested that he can’t even see ht to et the hints, so he doesn’t have to rejectbut a loser, and I had to bite the inside ofbehind my eyes
Mara shrugged as her gaze landed on Principal Rutherford, surrounded by five sexy wo in to show off their bodies, inappropriately dressed for the weather as they were “Sometimes, often, men are just clueless If you don’t beat them over the head, like that,” she pointed to one rasped his bicep with the other “They are totally clueless”
“Look at them! There’s no way I can compete with that” Most days I wore my thick blond hair in a ponytail and I never bothered with any makeup other than ether with professionally done hairstyles “I look like a gym teacher, and they look like the hot librarian from porn videos”
Mara bit back a laugh and shook her head “You’re being ridiculous Joss, you know that, right? If Ben had any interest in those wo the crowd in search of someone to save him”