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would be in
your year. You look a lot older than seventeen,” she replied,
seeming completely unfazed by the fact I’d caught her ogling
me.
    “ It’s the fluff,” I replied, stroking the thick stubble on my
chin. It wasn’t the first time I’d been told how much it aged me.
I’d been shaving since I was twelve. Got me a lot of stick from the
boys at school at the time but I figured they were just jealous.
The girls love it – always have. Why would they want some puny
spotty kid when they could have a guy with full-on beard growing
potential and who’d been working out since he was eight years
old?
    I stole a glance Maddie’s way and she was staring longingly
out of the window, fidgeting with the hem of her sweater. She
looked lost and it set off an unfamiliar flutter in my
heart.
    “ You nervous?” It would’ve been rude not to ask.
    “ A little,” she replied coyly and I caught sight of her
cheeks turn a delectable shade of baby-pink. “I suppose I’ve just
got no idea what to expect,” she added in the sweetest most
fucked-up accent I’d ever heard.
    “ What, did you not go to school back home?” I asked
sarcastically, expecting – and sadistically kind of hoping – that
she’d blush.
    “ You always such an arsehole?” she snapped. I think I seriously
felt the stirrings of an erection coming on. She was feisty. I
liked it.
    “ Pretty much,” I answered. “So? Did you or didn’t you?” I was
genuinely interested at that point.
    “ Yeah but it’s not like here. For a start I left when I was
fifteen. I started college but we moved around a lot so ended up
quitting. I’ve only agreed to go back into education for my mum’s
sake. This is our fresh start. I think she plans on me taking over
the world or something.”
    Fresh start? I started to wonder what she’d moved away from. Bizarrely
the thought of her having a hard time made my insides feel all
funny. Weird.
    “ Plus, this country… it’s all so different. I’ve read
through the prospectus Treacle sent me…”
    “ Who ?”
I interrupted. That time she did blush and her face contorted into an expression which
screamed ‘oh shit’.
    “ Oh, um… Trudy. I meant Trudy.” She bit her bottom lip as if
she was striving to find the next part of that sentence. “It’s just
a nickname my mum used to call her. Don’t tell her though… she
hates it.”
    “ Don’t tell her what?”
    “ Thanks,” she said, sighing as if she had just gotten away
with something. She… fascinated me. Strange.
    “ So… the prospectus?”
    “ Right, well, I don’t understand half of it. I mean, what the hell is
calculus?”
    I
couldn’t help but laugh at her. She really had no idea what she was
doing.
    “ Don’t worry, I got your back. I’ll talk you through anything you don’t
understand.”
    Shit, did I really just say that out loud? Why did I give a
crap? “I’ll walk you to the main office to get your schedule… see
what classes we’ve got together.” There I went again. Ridiculous
words were just tumbling from my mouth without my
consent.
    “ Thanks,” she said and her cheeks burned into a vivid shade of red. I
pictured myself kissing them and feeling the warmth against my
lips. What
the fuck? I
shook my head and flipped my eyes back to the road.
    “ Blaine?” she asked nervously. I swear the sound of my name on
her lips made my dick twitch.
    “ Yeah?”
    “ I actually thought y ou kind of hated me,” she admitted and what I
thought was guilt coursed through my veins. Of course she did. I
behaved like an ass yesterday. Then again, I behave like an ass
every day.
    “ I don’t know you well enough to hate you,” I said, cutting
the engine. She giggled but it was forced, nervous – a smile didn’t
reach her peachy lips. “ Lips”! I screamed inside my head. ‘Lips’ would suffice…
there was no need for the peachy.
    I step ped out of the car and she followed, loitering nervously by
the passenger door. With ten minutes to