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always telling her not to be staring at people, but she couldn't help it. People fascinated her. The way they behaved, some of the strange things they did. Her mum said she would make a good behavioural psychologist one day. Kaitlin turned her nose up at that. She wanted to be a writer when she grew up, like her favourite author, J.K. Rowling. Kaitlin had read all the Harry Potter books half a dozen times, never tiring of the magic to be found amongst the pages of those books. That was one thing her and Harry had in common, a love of books, though sadly not Harry Potter. He kept promising to read them one day, but he hadn't yet. She still held out hope that he would though, then they could discuss how great they were. Harry liked grown up books, like the one he got her to read, Heart Of Darkness . It was okay, but Kaitlin didn't really get it. She remembered her mum frowning when she saw her reading it, though she never took the book from her, like she did the horror novel she caught her reading one day. Too much violence for little girls, her mum had said.
    Harry came walking down the stairs just as the food was being served. He was like a giant and she wondered if she would ever be as tall as him. She already knew she was quite tall compared to most of the girls in school. Some of the boys slagged her off for it, calling her Olive Oil. She had to ask one of her friends what that meant when she first heard it, and her friend showed her a Popeye video on YouTube. Kaitlin didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the time. Thankfully, the name didn't really stick. Most of the boys at school looked at her for other reasons anyway. Kaitlin knew she had her mum's good looks, and so did the boys at school know as well apparently.
    Sitting opposite her, Harry eyed the food on the table like a hungry wolf. Kaitlin always figured Harry would have to eat a lot to maintain his huge size. Not that his size intimidated her or anything. He was like a friendly giant in her mind, and between his big muscles and the fact that he was a soldier, she always felt safe around him.
    "Looks good," he said, picking up his knife and fork after taking a mouthful of coffee.
    "It is," Kaitlin said, already chewing on a piece of sausage, which she first dipped into her runny fried egg.
    "So how is school going?" He was referring to the fact that she had just started secondary school a week ago.
    "Okay." Kaitlin cut off a piece of potato bread and smeared it in beans before putting it in her mouth. "I'm still getting used to it. They have a nice library."
    "That's good. What are you reading at the moment? Not Harry Potter again…"
    "No. I finished reading Harry Potter last month. I won't read it again for another while." She sucked on the straw of her strawberry milkshake. "I'm reading the Hunger Games at the moment."
    Harry shook his head. "Never heard of it."
    "You've never heard of the Hunger Games? Seriously?"
    He shook his head again as he chewed on a piece of bacon. He appeared to have cleared half his plate already, while she had barely put a dent in hers. "We are so renting the movies tonight then."
    "There's films?"
    "Of course."
    "They any good?"
    "I've only seen the first one. It was pretty bad ass."
    He looked at her funny. "Bad ass?"
    "Yeah."
    "Okay." He shook his head and drank a few mouthfuls of his coffee.
    "What?" she asked, a half smile on her face.
    "Nothing. When I was in Iraq, I used to hear the American guys say that all the time."
    Kaitlin went silent for a moment. "What was it like over there, Harry?"
    In the six months they had been getting to know one another, Harry had rarely spoken about his time as a soldier, which she found weird because her mum had told her Harry had always been a soldier, right up until he came back home a year ago. Kaitlin knew he used to be in the Foreign Legion, that much he told her, even though she had never heard of the Foreign Legion before. When he told her about it, she thought it strange that people