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need to get me
anything,” I gushed as I pulled it open. Inside was a photo album, they’d done
a design on the front, both drawing on it and writing ‘Senior year’ on the
front. “Aww, I love this. Thanks girls!”
    “Open it,” Charlotte encouraged.
    I frowned, confused, but opened the front cover to see three
tickets for the midnight preview screening of the second Hunger Games movie
that came out in a few weeks. I squealed excitedly as I threw my arms around
them both. “These are great, I can’t wait!” I chirped as we all started doing a
happy dance in the middle of the hallway. From the corner of my eye,  I saw the
A-list girls looking at us with disapproval, but I just didn’t care, I was
happy being a nerd so they could disapprove all they wanted.
    Someone cleared their throat next to us, so we stopped and I
looked to see it was a freshman. He shifted on his feet nervously, probably a
little scared to approach a senior. “You’re Maisie Preston, aren’t you?” he
asked, flicking his eyes to Luke who looked like he was body guarding me
because of the glare he was shooting the poor guy.
    “Er, yeah?” I confirmed, confused.
    “Principal Bennett wants to see you in her office,” he muttered,
cringing away from Luke as he stepped closer to me possessively.
    The Principal wants to see me? “Oh really? Okay,
thanks for telling me.” I smiled at the guy reassuringly because he looked like
he was three seconds from passing out. Without saying anything else, he turned
and scuttled off. I turned to Luke and raised one eyebrow, waiting for an
explanation for that face. “Death glare for a freshman, really?”
    He shrugged casually, not seeming bothered by my stern face.
“He was looking at your butt as you were jumping around.”
    I rolled my eyes. Luke could be a little possessive
sometimes, but I could handle that, being with him was worth putting up with a
little jealousness every now and then. “So what? People look at you all the
time, does that mean I have to start glaring at the girls for looking at
something that’s mine?” I asked, smirking at him playfully. 
    He smiled and pulled me closer to him, crushing the photo
album and tickets between our bodies. “I love it when you call me yours,” he
whispered, looking at me hungrily. I smiled and pressed my lips to his, biting
on his bottom lip gently, making his fingers dig into the small of my back.
    Suddenly his arms were gone from my waist and his body
jerked away from mine. I looked up, shocked; Luke was now a foot away from me.
My brother, Alex, had hold of the back of his sweater as he frowned angrily.
“Five inch gap between you and my sister while I’m around, you know that,
Hannigan,” he growled, pushing Luke away from me.
    I sighed in exasperation. Sometimes my twin was the most
annoying thing in the world with his protectiveness. “Grow up, Alex. Just go
run along and try and get your fill of some slut’s pants before school starts,
huh?” I waved my hand dismissively. Alex didn’t like Luke much, never had done
for some reason.
    Alex frowned at my comment but didn’t reply. Instead, his
blue eyes that were the exact shade of mine turned to Charlotte. He swept one
hand through his messy dark blond hair as he turned on the charming smile that
most girls in the school swooned over. “Hey, so am I getting a birthday
present?” he asked, looking at her suggestively.
    I groaned and rolled my eyes because he was starting earlier
than usual today. Flirting with Charlotte was usually restricted to lunchtimes
or after school when she came over to our place. It was innocent enough; they
were friends really too, but he just liked to tease the life out of her because
she wasn’t very experienced in that department. “I forgot to buy you anything,”
she answered, shrugging.
    He smiled, his eyes glittering wickedly. “That’s okay; I’ll
just take your first kiss.” He leant in close, his lips heading towards hers.
    She squealed