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"Okay The fact you know the latter part is odd, but whatever Tell ht?"

He laughed, which was unnecessary because he was already getting an absurd a by us "Twenty-three point one nine--and you knohat? You don’t know the answer to that question"

That was true "How do you know? I’enius"

"If that were true, you wouldn’t have asked that question"

My eyes narrowed

"Taft was one of the last presidents to preside over the addition of a new state Currently there are eighty-eight known constellations Beard hair groice its normal rate while on a plane"

"What?"

"It’s true Another thing that’s true? Honey never spoils Look it up It’s also hard to accessthat one day," he said "Water can boil and freeze at the same time Cats always land on their feet because of physics And there’s enough DNA in one human to stretch from the sun to Pluto seventeen times"

"School would bore you" I stopped by nored the weird flutter in rin teased at ain?"

"Well, that ca, didn’t it?" He chuckled as he stepped forward, and I had to tilt aze "I want to come home with you"

My heart did a cartwheel and then face-planted itself against ht, Luc"

"It carew, and I did everything into finish our conversation from this weekend?"

"If that’s what you want"

"Why else would I talk to you?" I shot back

He laughed again under his breath "I like to think there are other reasons you’d talk to me, Peaches"

"Don’t call me that" I opened my car door "My moone before she got home"

I hesitated "Hoould you know that?"

"I’m fast The moment you heard her pull up, I’d be out of the house" He paused "In a jiffy"

He was fast I knew that, but still "I don’t know"

Luc was quiet for a moment "You came to my place How is this any different?"

It didn’t see him to come to my house was different

"Are you afraid of me?" he asked after a moment

His question startledexactly what he was capable of, but truth was, I wasn’t afraid of him

"No I’m not" I took a deep breath "You can coood before ets home"

"Pinkie swear"

I rolled , he walked around to the passenger side and clilanced over at hi with your weekend?"