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holiday of Halloween any closer by screwing up all I had worked hard for though, so I let it ride.
    Josie, the air headed bimbo who smelled like laundry detergent, was behind me coughing as Grace passed.  She was an annoying presence who just never seemed to take a hint.
      Grace sat in the assigned seat beside me and I allowed myself a small smile in her direction that always made her sigh with pleasure.  I craved those lips turning up into the genuine smile that she only ever gave me.  Sometimes she’d sigh long and let her thoughts get her down because she believed me to only see her as a friend.  Would I even get the chance to tell her how I really feel?  I sighed my own agitated release.
       I raised an eye to indicate that she was late to class and where she might have been all in one look.   With her stare, she was pondering internally why I had given her so much more attention lately.  Her overactive female mind was always thinking the best or the worst, but never just what it was.   But how could she when she didn’t know who she really was or why I acted as I do.  Sometimes the circles I sent her in left her so exasperated, that she’d growl silently and leave me hanging with her mirror imaged vivid thoughts of what I’d surely like to do with those soft lips of hers.  Her eyes would watch my lips and her thoughts would...well, too often I had to walk away before I gave into temptation.  Our entire future depended on just a few more days.  I could wait.  If only I knew if she’d choose me, my world, her world, or walk away horrified by the prospects of it.  She handled “freaky” well so I leaned on the hopeful side of her being with me for all of our unnatural lives together.  The road was long ahead of us either way.  If she said no, I would have to live without her. 
    Josie glared at Grace getting attention from me.  A satisfactory smile traced her soft, pliable lips as she silently played me up in her mind and willing Josie to back off.  I loved her hope.  I just hoped it was what she really wanted after she knew the truth.  
    She kept watching me from behind her soft, silky hair trying hard to look like she was reading.  The sunlight caught it just right making her eyes shine even in the dull of fluorescent light.  She caught my smile as I watched the words on the pages in front of me stare back at me and say nothing.  She was all I could think about.
    The annoying Ben coughed and lifted his leg out beside him to get Grace’s attention.  I kept my jealousy to a minimum since Grace assumed I had nothing to be jealous about, but I’d spurred Ben in alternate directions on more than one occasion that left him bereft with anger and confusion towards my efforts.  She didn’t think the boy liked her too much, but I knew different.  He thought he was in love with her.  Yeah, buddy.  I know the feeling.
    Grace’s thoughts spawned a mental picture of Kinsler and made my body sit up straighter.    He was bothering Rachel, the photography girl, with his irritating habits.  Kinsler poked the girl with his pencil top on the back of her neck forcing her to tense and duck down into her seat in retreat. She tried to ignore him and even tried to get the teacher’s attention, but Kinsler was styling the glamour around him and displaying once again what a jerk he was all for Grace’s supposed benefit.  He didn’t wish to face that he’d spent all of these years building Grace up to hate him instead of hopelessly following his lovesick ways.  Oddly enough, she never hated him and I had no friggin’ idea why.
    Well, I knew her.  She just didn’t hold too much animosity for even the ruthless and cunning evildoers of the human world.
    Self absorbed in the notion of Kinsler possibly ever gaining her affections, I looked up too late to catch the gummy bear pegging Kinsler on the back of the head.  He whirled and glared at Grace, the savior, with a fake smile and then mouthed the