“Huh.” Max sat back, like he was having a revelation. “The first time I’ve ever been called cool. It’s a strange sensation. Powerful.”
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In the morning, I woke up to a text from Max, inviting me over for breakfast, and I pressed my smiling, ridiculous face into a pillow.
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You were missing out.”
He looked over and said, seriously, “I really, really was.”
How to explain why I kissed Max Watson, for the third time ever, in full view of our closest friends? I don’t know. I couldn’t not.
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Happy.” The way he looked at me when he said it—with a sigh and the slightest smile. Being together was like sharing a docking station, finally able to rest and refuel.
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I’d needed to jump back in on my own. But when I did, I wore Max’s belief in me like wings
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When she looked around, she seemed briefly surprised that the rest of us were still there
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To Laurel King and her reign at Northwestern, which begins tomorrow. You will …” She paused, searching Laurel’s face for the right word. “Dazzle them.”
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Okay,” I said, smiling. “Ready.”
Max blinked at me, then nodded back up to the car. “Well, now I think we should definitely ditch these guys.”
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I’d never kissed anyone like this, like Max right now—familiar but entirely surprising.
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He stopped over to say hey, but promised he wouldn’t tell anyone. So I’d say there’s a fifty-fifty chance that everyone already knows.”