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"Yeah, well don't expect a thank you, cause I'm not thanking you." Taylor pointed a finger at me. "Even if you possibly made a fantasy of mine come true."

"You do realize there will be women, children, and like, families on this trip, Taylor?" Ebony looked at him mildly disgusted. "No way are you getting it on in front of the elders."

"Yeah, but come on, as if the young ones aren't going to break away and you know." He wiggled his eyebrows.

The young ones could do whatever the fuck they wanted, as all I cared about was Allie not leaving my sight for the whole trip. "This is me, catch you guys after school." I slid open the science door and wandered to the end of the classroom.

Was it wrong I had been looking forward to this class all day? I didn't know one person in it, and the teacher never expected anything from us. Usually, he put on some DVD about science shit.

Which meant I could invade Allie's thoughts.

As wrong as it was, I had been hanging out all day wondering what she thought of the trip.

When I got inside her mind, I usually ended up getting lost; which meant I zoned out. My temper isn't the best, and when someone pulls me away from something I didn't want to be pulled away from, well you can guess my response.

I laid my books down and didn't have to close my eyes for long before I felt her.

She wasn't far away, a few classes over. She was in History; I could tell by the image of the teacher that flashed across her eyes.

'God, I hate this class.'

Hearing her voice, even if it was her internal voice, relaxed me.

I was starting to make a habit of falling asleep listening to her. Usually, it was just her rambling on about nothing important, but last night she was stressing out, and I hadn't disconnected before I fell asleep.

Her nightmares were bad enough to wake me up.

'Why does he keep looking at me?'She snuck a glance over her shoulder.'Again with the staring.'

I sat up straighter in my seat. I didn't know the kid who seemed to be freaking her out. I zoned in on the image of the kid's face while listening to Allie's thoughts.

'Why is he always looking at me? I can't focus.'

I wanted to reach through her thoughts and strangle the dude. Who the fuck did he think he was, annoying my mate? My Allie? Maybe I should crash her class. I just needed a reason.

She watched as the kid got up, and I felt her stiffen in horror as he took the seat next to her.

Fuck it, I didn't need a reason.

Chapter Twenty-four

ALLIE

“Do I know you?” I frowned. Not only was he making me extremely uncomfortable, but I was nearly certain I knew him.

He pulled out the chair beside me, and when he did, I moved back on my seat away from him.

Did I just attract the creeps or something?

“Um, sort of.” He threw me an unsure smile. “We’ve had a few classes together.”

Still didn’t explain why he had just decided to relocate next to me. “And?”

“I noticed you haven’t been in class lately.”

Great, he was a fucking detective as well. “And?”

He opened his textbook and pulled out a bunch of paper. “I took, um, some notes for you.” He placed them on top of my folder. “I, um, know you don’t do too well in classes, so I thought you could, um, borrow these.”

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