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Mak’s eyes got as wide as saucers, and her rasp of the date-ditcher, I rounded the table and held out my hand to Mak
Glancing behind me at the very pissed-off Hannah or Anna and her even more pissed-off date, Mak perhaps sized up the situation and didn’t want to be in the middle of a ind of haymakers or thrown drinks, so she took ht up my ar you got standing in line for concessions at afor forever I shookabout, and she didn’t look one bit affected by ers wrapped around hand
“And tonight I want you?” She lifted an eyebrow at me as alked out onto the dance floor with the corners of her mouth turned up the tiniest bit
“I iet a piece of rinned at her, but she just rolled her eyes
“Probably for the best Hannah can be a real bitch when she doesn’t get what she wants, which probably lanced back over her shoulder to a very irate Hannah standing with her arms crossed over her chest
People parted out of the way to give us so switched up to a slow one almost as soon as we found our spot
We stood there staring at each other I took a step forward, and Mak hesitated before looping her arms around my neck The sensation was back now and worse than before Staring down into Mak’s eyes, I really saw thehtest blue I’d ever seen Maybe it was the roohts, but I’d never seen so many blues in one spot
It was the soft stroke of her fingers along the hair at the nape of hten on her waist The way she stared intoit Like her hands had ato soak up a little bit ured that was how she felt because ainst me Her lips parted, and her eyelashes fluttered
The thud of my heart pounded as we hts at the center of a sea of people Electricity buzzed through my body, but I kneasn’t just the vodka It was all to do with the woman in my arms who usually drove me up a wall
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen you without your glasses before”
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in a tux before” Her pink tongue darted out to lick her bottoaze to it, and I wanted to have my own sample of her lips
“You’re never been to prom before” My hands pressed into the saps that had been between us Why did she feel so good in reens from the fish tank washed over us like a spell had been cast and ere living in our own little underwater bubble
“Almost didn’t come to this one”
“Why not?” I leanedthe base of my neck