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This feeling between us wasthis attraction She wasn’t a polite girl taking pity on the new kid

I almost leaned over and kissed her when I handed over her backpack in front of the girls’ locker room At the last second, I stopped When our lips touched for the first ti to be in a dimly lit, sweat-scented hallway in front of sixty of our fellow classmates

No, I wanted it to be special And private

Chapter Five

Juliet

My stomach fluttered as Roman and I stared at each other

“I’ll pick you up when the bell rings,” he said

“Okay”

He grabbed the notebook out of my hand and quickly scribbled down some notes

“We have the rest of our classes together”

“Oh, good”

Someone shoved me Roman all but snarled at the offender

“Ooo, Juliet, who’s your scary friend?” my friend Vienna asked

“Vienna, this is Roman This is his first day”

Vienna raked her gaze over hile her

“I heard all about how you taught Douchebag Dougie so at him with too much interest “Well done”

Rouys would “Seeo”

“Got that right,” Vienna said “That asshole lifted rade and showed everyone my underwear Got called ‘polka dots’ forever because of him”

Leave it to Vienna to uy

“We’re going to be late” I dug ed her toward the door

“See you in an hour,” Roman reminded me

“Wow,” Vienna said in a dreamy voice that I didn’t care for “You lucky bitch How did you meet him?”

“Trying to break into my locker”

She scrunched up her nose, trying to decide if I was kidding or not, I think

“He seerinned at me “A birdie told me you went to the principal’s office to defend him”

“Dougie started it Why should he always get aith—”

“Don’t get s as far as I’m concerned”

We stripped out of our clothes and into the insultingly sym uniforht-challenged the shorts and polo looked almost normal on me On Vienna’s tall, slender frame, the white shirt and shorts looked positively obscene

“Coet this over with”