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  just so he could touch her.
    She didn’t say anything when she looked up, but she seemed to freeze. He was glad because he saw the most beautiful green eyes looking back at him.   Her long black eyelashes fanning out, casting shadows on her rosy cheeks.   Were they rosy, or was she… blushing?   He looked to her nose. Cute and dainty, perfect in the centre of her face.
    Then, he saw her mouth.   Her luscious lips had parted slightly, and he had a sudden urge to run his tongue over them.  
    What the hell?!
    He knew he had to say something instead of just staring at her like an idiot.
    He’d said ‘ Hi; you must be one of the new people. ’ He knew that two girls and two guys were starting late in the school year.   But, he hadn’t known where they were coming from.
    The gorgeous creature in front of him didn’t say anything and he thought that maybe she was a foreign student.   When he’d asked her, he had to put his hands in his pockets to stop himself from reaching out to touch her face.   He’d thought about doing it, when his hand lifted.
    When she didn’t reply and her cheeks grew pink, he asked her whether she was ok.  
    She’d said ‘um…I’ and walked away quickly.

    “Well hi there.”   He heard the southern accent coming from his left.   Bringing him out of his thoughts.
    “What’s your name?”   Kate said when Alex turned his head in her direction.
    “Alex”   he said, without offering any more information.  
    “Howdy Alex…I’m Kate.”   She purred as her eyes openly roamed over him.
    “I know.” He said as he turned back to the front of the class.
    “Oh…uh…”   Kate seemed to be taken aback at Alex’s dismissal of her.
    He thought that was the end of it when she started up again.
    “Alex, do you have a girlfriend?”
    His head snapped to her, surprised that she would ask that when she’d been introduced to the room less than five minutes ago.  
    “Look, darlin’” Dev said as she mimicked Kate’s accent. “Since you’re new let me be the first to give you a head’s up.   My brother’s not interested.”

    Alex inwardly sighed with relief when Dev came to his rescue.
    He always tried to be polite, and he didn’t like to resort with saying bad things, as if he had plenty of times to Stacey, but sometimes, polite didn’t get him anywhere.
    He heard Dev telling Kate, again, that he wasn’t interested and he tried to block everything out so he could concentrate on his work.   Yeah, he tried, but images of a dark haired, green eyed beauty kept popping into his head.
    The bell signaled the end of the lesson and he and Dev picked up their bags.
    “The girls and I are going to lunch with the new girl.”   Dev said to him.
    “Um…OK.” He said, a little confused.   It was only half an hour ago that Dev was keeping her from going after him, and now she was having lunch with her?
    Before he could say anything, Dev kissed him on the cheek and walked away in the opposite direction of the canteen.

    Alex met Ben at the canteen, along with their other friends, Ryan and Kyle.  
    Where Alex and Ben were best friends, Ryan and Kyle were best friends.  
    “Hey dude, what-up?” Said Ryan in his usual quirky manner.  
    “Nothing much” answered Alex with a little shrug.  
    Ryan was the joker of the group and often got on the faculty’s nerves with his antics.   Once, he had sung to the teacher in History class, because he’d not done his homework.   The marks for the paper would have an effect on his midterm, and it had been important.
    Failing that class would have meant him missing out on his choices, senior year, and he would have had to repeat Junior History.   Ryan wouldn’t stop singing until the teacher gave him an extension.   He was singing ‘Please forgive me’ as he was on his hands and knees at the front of the class.

    The teacher finally gave in, more out of embarrassment because people were walking by and were stopping to see what