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stuff and made a beeline for the exit. My friends were not far behind me.
    "Did you see? He just stared at you all through class," Stacy marveled. So I hadn't been imagining his eyes on me...
    "Yes, he did. Maybe he is ready to move on from Felicity," Kennedy teased with a wink.
    Stacy giggled. They were really enjoying teasing me about him.
    "Look, can we just forget about it?" I whispered to them as we continued to walk down the hall toward my locker. "It's super embarrassing and it's bad enough that I have to face him at school. I really don't want to talk about it anymore."
    I hoped the sooner we stopped talking about it the sooner I could forget it happened. Stacy tried to suppress her smile and Kennedy elbowed her.
    "Okay. We won't talk about it anymore," Kennedy assured me.
    "Thanks," I replied, feeling relieved. "See you guys at lunch."
    I left them and walked to my locker. I spun the combination of my locker and for some reason the lock wouldn't open. After a while I managed to get it open and I began re-organizing my books for my next lesson.
    "I seem to be bumping into you an awful lot," a voice drawled from beside me, causing me to freeze. My eyes drifted to the source of the voice and I encountered a smirking Jared.
    How was it possible that right next to my locker was Mr. Drop-Dead-Gorgeous, riffling through his locker, which happened to be right next to my own? It felt like the universe was having a good laugh at my expense.
    "I..." I stuttered, feeling hot embarrassment creep into my face. The smirk that he gave me was enough for me to slam my locker closed before I practically ran down the hallway to my next class.
    I was such an idiot. I closed my eyes for a moment as I thought about how I'd tried to talk to him but I'd only managed to stutter back. I managed to calm down a little as the day went on. At lunch, I sat at the table with my friends and thankfully they talked about everything but Jared. I hadn't told them about the locker incident. I'd lost my appetite, so instead of eating I kept pushing my food around my plate.
    "Are you going to eat that?" Kennedy asked, eyeing my plate, which was still full of chips and an untouched burger.
    "No, it's all yours." I pushed the plate to her. I thought I had a good metabolism, but I had nothing on Kennedy. She could eat twice what I could and didn't put on any weight.
    Even though I was trying my best to ignore Jared, I glanced in the direction where he'd sat the previous day. He was sitting with his usual group. His eyes met mine and I felt that flutter inside my stomach again. His eyes were a startling green color, and they were hypnotizing as his gaze held mine. I pulled my eyes away from him quickly.
    Thankfully Stacy and Kennedy were too wrapped up in their conversation to notice. I vaguely heard them talking about a guy named David, who Stacy seemed to have a thing for. I spent the entire lunch with my eyes fixed straight in front of me. The need to turn around and look at him was so intense that it took all my willpower not to give in to it.
    At the end of lunch, I couldn't hold back anymore and glanced back toward Jared. His eyes clashed with mine as he stared at me intently. Before I looked away, I saw Felicity eyeing out the exchange with a frown on her face. Her brown eyes flashed to mine. She made it perfectly clear in that one look that she didn't like me. The rest of the group had been oblivious to the quiet confrontation. I quickly walked out of the cafeteria and caught up with my friends. I didn't see the 'super-hot' crowd again for the rest of the day.
     

CHAPTER THREE
    I just had to get through one more day before the weekend started, and I was so looking forward to it. Meeting Jared had tilted my equilibrium, and I wanted to tilt my world back to normal. I'd bought a thousand-piece puzzle that I'd been itching to do. There was something about concentrating on fitting puzzle pieces together that left no room to think about anything else, and I