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“Depressingly low,” said Aileen

Chapter Twelve: Tamara

Mu in ho Apparently she’d waited up until three I had a key

Mikeher she should ‘chill out’ and let me live a little She launched into an epic rant about how he needed to stay out of things when it caave Ryan and me cover to slip off to our bedrooms

I sat ona whole bunch ofand clung to that instead I would have fun sneaking that out to ithout

I pulledand stared at it, at the recent streaes froed numbers so we could flirt by text or calls like other couples probably did Not that ere a couple… or that I wanted us to be a couple I wasn’t sure about s or his Maybe ere alrea

dy finished now, or Steven had a certain number of encounters in mind and then he would cut me off

Well, if Steven wanted to get in touch with et Callie to give hi But for some reason I didn’t think he’d do that

It was just so weird There was no romance whatsoever here, and I was entirely okay with it Shouldn’t I be exactly the sort of girl anted that romance in her love life? I slept in a bedroo Beauty, for goodness sake

I was quite happy with how things were going Very happy And uilty about that, but I didn’t

I was glad Ryan dropped me off a short distance fro to be a real mess That week

I’d arranged toso we could all go into class together, but I’d already had two people yell questions about that night at the party by the time I reached them

Callie’s cheek itching “This is going to be a real clusterfuck of a day Tamara, I have to tell you…”

“Who’s a dirty girl, Tamara?” bellowed some meathead I had even less of an idea who he was than I’d had about Steven before our initial confrontation

“I guess you’d know one when you see one,” Aileen bellowed after him, “because all you have to do to remember is look at a picture of your mum”