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Algebra test and an English paper due next week.”
                  “Fine,” Dad said. “But come home if the storm gets bad”
                  That was it. No worries, no threats, no curfew. That was my life. I was good, boring, predictable, Mai Evans. Dad never really worried because in seventeen years I’d never given him anything to freak out about. I studied enough to get decent grades and I never got arrested or brought home drunk. I was too good if you ask me. I would have loved a bit of adventure, something crazy and wild that would put an end to the boredom of my life. But change never happened in Addison so I couldn’t see a big rebellion anywhere in the near future. Perhaps once I got off to university things might be different. 
     
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                  The snow was really coming down by the time I pulled into the parking lot an hour later. I squeezed my car into a spot between two trucks and grabbed my backpack. Inside, the shop was filled with students. I knew all of them. I spotted Connor immediately over at our regular table with everyone else. Claire and Amber were my oldest friends; inseparable since the first day of school. We had grown up together; there was nothing about them that I didn’t know. Eugene was Connor’s best friend, a nice enough guy, great basketball player but incredibly shy when it came to anyone outside his circle of friends.
                  I waved from the door and hit up the counter to order a caramel macchiato. Amber came bouncing over immediately to wait with me.
                  “Chemistry be damned,” she said loudly. “Who needs it? Not me! Scott Myerson asked me out to a movie on Saturday.”
                  “Seriously?” I grinned. She’d been working on Scott for a while.
                  “Yes, seriously,” she smirked. “I’m not nearly as ugly as I make myself out to be. There’s a personality inside of me dying to get out. She’s blonde, she’s bubbly, she’s no stranger to danger. Of course she’s probably terrified that I might eat her.”
                  Amber was about twenty pounds overweight and she didn’t deal with it very well. She had a bad habit of trying to put herself down which Claire and I always refused to let her.
                  “There’s nothing wrong with you,” I said. “You’re a hottie and you know it.”
                  “Pffft,” she said.
                  The barista handed me my drink and Amber grabbed my arm and pulled me towards the back of the room. “We have to go shopping,” she said. “Or you have to let me invade your closet. I need to find something new. Something that will shock his heart into the next cosmos.”
                  “Sure,” I said.
                  I grabbed my seat beside Connor and Claire and dropped my heavy bag down beside me. Connor looked up but didn’t pull the headphones from his ears. He kissed me on the cheek and then turned his attention back to the video that Eugene and he were watching on YouTube. That was one of the things I loved the most about him. We’d been dating so long that we were comfortable enough to ignore each other. How many girls in the world can say that?
                  I decided that English was going to be the more doable assignment so I pulled my laptop out of my bag and settled down.
                  I opened up my Word Document to read over the work I’d all ready done. But I was having trouble concentrating. I was thinking about Kian and our earlier encounter. I couldn’t help but wonder what Amber and Claire might think of him.
                  I think what made him so appealing was the underlying certainty that I’d met him