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Not that I was itching for Steven to takeMuh school to think about things like that, give myself the best chance possible, and I was still so on board with that But I was definitely up forin sohta bit turned on while sitting in class nearly snapped ht back to reality

How could I of all people be having these thoughts about a guy w

ho had possibly abused another girl he was involved with? Perhaps he was settingto isolatea secret

Well, he’d said nobody needed to know, not that I couldn’t tell anyone But ould I tell? If I said one word to Muiven up on the idea Aileen would laugh atMs Miller hable

I needed Callie We needed each other Everything had started to go wrong from the moment she decided to keep secrets froone off at her instead of trying to understand, to help The thing was I didn’t kno to fix it now, and I wasn’t sure Callie wanted to try

One thought rose to the surface of htforith her instead of sneaking around,straight to the street where Ryan parked to wait forspots at the front of the school building and scanned around until I spotted Callie, standing outside a big car that had to be Lucas’s

She stood up taller when she saw“What’s up, Tamara?”

I didn’t kno to answer her question I just stood there in front of her with ht, biting my lip

Callie sighed “I’ve done all the apologising I can think of and Lucas and Steven will be here soon, so if you have so to say you’d better be quick about it”

The last thing I wanted was to run into Steven “I guess I’ll talk to you later,” I et out

The funny thing was, that seeht like that”

“We’ve picked up another one!”

I froze at Steven’s shout, like I was a bird who’d suddenly realised the gun was already pointed at s balanced ies of their shoulders, uniforms a crumpled mess

If Callie had been tense before when it was justfor a crash, the way she’d looked riding in Ryan’s car the couple tiot hit the first time

The thing was, Steven had beenlike hiuy toas entitled as anyone that rich and handso Callie—not intentionally, at least But he ell out of her league, and I guess that made all the difference