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It falls perfectly into the cup, and Stella throws her aroes crazy

My eyes pass briefly over Torres, and I could swear he’s s stand, and then leave," I tell Stella

She nods, and while she tells the crowd that we’re done for the night, I start rips my elbow a moment later "You okay?"

I nod "Yep I just want to do this and get out of here"

"The keg’s usually in the backyard Coe to look back overTorres won’t follow Stella told everyone ere done for the night, soEven so, I walk a little faster There were a lot of people in that room, and even if he does follow ht before he can catch up to one when I finally pushthe party for her dark hair, her curvy form "Fuck"

It had been such a shock to walk into my room and see her there She’d looked vibrant and confident and unbelievably sexy And everybody atching her, and that asshole friend of Ryan’s with the beanie hugged her, and it took all my self-control not to suffocate hi tonight I was co to go to Nell’s apartment And by some miracle that I still didn’t understand, she was already here

What did that mean?

She certainly wasn’t here at the house to see me The way she’d tensed up when I volunteered to play told me that But ould she come here if she didn’t want to see me? Was it to rub my face in the fact that she’s just fine, and I can’t walk or talk or do fucking anything without thinking of her? Because she sure as hell looked like she was doing just fine without ained a lot of confidence and was more comfortable in her skin than e first met, but I still never would have expected to find her co at a party like this

God, I’d spent the whole dao after her I thought about her as the teah all our concussion protocols I’d thought of her when Coach said he’d rather not chance sendingthat keptteaain with, so it ended up becoas can turn around so fast I paced and paced and paced, and I thought of her I planned out what I was going to say to her During halfti and wrote it down Then time ran out, and on, and all I could think about was talking to her But Coach wanted to talk after the gaive aveti in his office, she was here in my house She’s still here so and clapping in the backyard, and follow the pull in ut to the door When I walk out onto the back porch, I catch sight of her i, and her perfect fucking legs straight up in the air Stella stands beside her, but she isn’t tall enough to keep a hold on her, so sonize has his hands around her ankles, holding her up

I see red

It’s bad enough that she’s in my house, and all these other people are here, so I can’t just grab her and devour that damn pouty mouth of hers But no one else touches her No one Jesus, I’d take a concussion over this any day

I fly down the stairs at the sa her feet toward the ground She’s laughing, and her long hair is wild and twisted over her face She pulls it away so she can see, and while she does it, Keg-Stand Guy keeps a hand on her lower back like he needs to steady her

I rip both her shoulders to spin her away from him

"What the fuck, ot ht between ers in those thick tresses

"What are you doing?" Nell asks