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Me: I’m so screwed

Grim - Then

My palrip on a football at all, but out on the field I was never that nervous On the field, I could run for days, and it never got any less exciting This was a completely different animal

My Adahtened

'Hey, Griame,' 'nice catch' co down the hall People moved out of my way Maybe they could sense I wasn’t in the ame

She was right there Killian's back was toHe'd killthis Killian acted like he hadn't slept his way through half the cheerleaders in the school He didn’t see his head down to keep his scholarship, like I did I wasn’t going to screw around and irl anyway Those other girls were fine, but they weren't her

She slammed her locker closed, and I rushed those last few steps,on the tile floor

"Hey, Frankie," I said, trying my best to keep my voice even

"Hey, Gri braid over her shoulder The sotten arabbed the stack "I've got them" She reached for them, but I held them back

"It's fine I've got the this way I can walk you to class" The flow of students moved around us so ere like two pebbles in a river as I walked toward her classroom We were in our own little world, surrounded by everyone else

"Cool, thanks!" She adjusted her bag on her shoulder and fell in step beside lanced over at her t-shirt It was covered in another cast of anime characters I'd never seen before Her wardrobe must have been exclusively anime and co else “What did you end up getting for your half of the project?”

“An A, which I have to say is because of you”

“No, it’s not You did a great job Ia project anyway? I definitely learned way ot good grades” She blushed and fiddled with the straps of her bag Researching the background and spread of herpes was only soot to spend a few days every week, hanging out with Frankie

She’d mainly been Killian’s friend, and we’d seen each other, but we’d never had a lot of tiether huddled in the library trying to gross one another out She was different Not like a lot of the other girls in the school I liked that

We h the halls in silence Locker doors slaled to find the words The science as up ahead Now or never I took a deep breath as we got closer to her classroom door Advanced Placement physics