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Mu on by then, and that hadI’d had my student ID and school reports on hand to mostly cover my ID requirements, but we only had one Medicare card between the three of us I guess Ryan and I should have been split off onto our own cards by now, but we’d never gotten it done Fortunately, Mum was much more careless with that than the birth certificates I’d found it buried at the botto she wouldn’t need it for anything else before I was back the next evening

“Are you going out with Callie?” she asked I nodded quickly, because Callie was about the only good alibi I had “And Lucas?”

I shrugged

“Maybe Ryan should go out with you,” Mu

“I think I’ht?”

That hen Mu, but of course she knew she couldn’t stop me I hated that she would even think about it for a h I knew she just wanted to protect me, but at times like this it just felt counterproductive

In the present, Steven was suddenly in front of , and that definitely scared ethiuys like Aileen, but the thing was, auys who kiss like that’ were definitely in a class of their own

I thought I should probably be a bit scared about getting in a car with him, but I just wasn’t I was a little scared about the process of gettingable to see as on it… not this

Actually, I was a little disappointed when Steven just touched my arm and pointed me towards the rear of the school, where there was a set a lot of use

I seeuys would park back there so they could ear (the typical advice was not to look if you didn’t have to) so thattoday, did you?”

Steven snickered “Sport thing Yeah, I have training, but I’ it Game’s not until tomorrow so I don’t need to be around today”

“But won’t your, um, team want you to train extra hard for—”

Steven stopped walking “It’s not fucking i to be a career for oing on about sport?”

“Sorry” I kept er I saw in him was actually a bit scary “I don’t knohat’s iht be so you away froht froood at footy, the sort of player a coach ht expect more of, but I didn’t kno he’d take that either “I don’t want to be a nuisance to you”

“A hot girl has agreed to coht want to ditch her to kick a ball around” Steven shook his head, then he broke out into a surprisingly sincere laugh “You are hilarious You get all fired up in a fight, and then the hint of a coo all fluttery and cute”