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Nothing I couldn’t form words She was there in front of me, and I had no idea what to say What did I say in all those fantasies I had? I know I had to have said so out part What was it?

"Excuse round out from between clenched teeth, and I stepped back out of surprise Scout took the opportunity to slide aroundfrom me? What the hell? Never in any of my fantasies had she run from me She actually looked scared, like I was some crazy unknown stalker…

Which is probably exactly what I looked like Actually, once I thought about it, "crazy unknown stalker" was a pretty accurate description What else would you call a guy who secretly watched you for years and obsessively thought about you every day?

The way I saw it, I had two options One, I could get all broody and morose over the fact she didn’t knoho I was and hadn’t been searching forfor her It was the easier of the two choices, since it’s what I felt like doing, but no one likes a brooder I know I live with Liao with the second option, which was to do this the old fashioned way Talk to her Charm her Give her a chance to know me, and once she did, ht? It couldn’t be that hard, could it? We were destined to be together

Filled with resolve, I snuck a peek at the school map hidden in my Calculus book and headed to ed out e to Liam

"I found Scout!"

His reply caans"

Of course I find the love of my life, and my brother is more concerned about Shifter stuff Like I didn’t already know to stay away from the local pack

My next class was some sort of hippie-dippie class about Shakespeare If it had been up toto learn an actual useful skill, but when you register for classes the day before the new seet a lot of say in what you take

The theater was on the other side of the school, which meant I had to hike across the upper level of as possibly the world’s nicest and roup of guys I pegged as the basketball team, thanks to the collection of State Basketball Chaoofed off I slowed uys, the shortest on the tea up to sla on to the riround

Shifter! My instincts screaan Pack that Lia over lived near the army base close to the Tennessee border, which was almost an hour’s drive further south Lia them out, but it was still too early We needed to do a lotwhether they were Alpha loyalists Until then, ere staying in Ti a low profile Obviously, my brain had uy’s allanced over ain dribbling around his tea direction so quickly it was hard to keep up with the movement