old, night. Streetlights cast long shadows. She saw a man in

ase calm down, Eve, she thought, trying to calm her racing heart. But then,

et, she realized, and she broke into a run, her footsteps pounding on the d

strength. Run, run... Eve ran... she thought, her silent scream echoing

to her gate, her hands shaking like crazy as she tried to open it. After a struggle, she

a became silent. She looked

, replaced by the sound of trays and the murmur of conversations in the cafeteria. She

absently. She then picked up her phone, fake absorption in its screen

he took in Nate. Who is he? he thought, a hint of possessiveness rising within him. He sm

replied, her voice a little too high-pitched. She finally looked up at Aa

ir world, laughing about some inside joke. "Oh my g

oey dissolved into giggles, u

im again, this time more wisely. He was talking to someone else now, a new guy with a frie

ate's shoulder, breakin

at the same bench..." Mike offered a frie

f nod. "Yeah...

ke asked, glancing aroun

e sit down,"

?" Mike asked, hi

osy around here, right?" Having a single friend doesn't cha

lightly. "Yeah... sometime

raced, at the way he leaned in closer to Evangeline. Was he a competitor or merely a friend of hers? Nate

Hey,

rned to see Kim, his expression shiftin

ll is he doing h

asked, "Who's that? Yo

can't believe that we ended up at the same college." Then he leaned i

"Yeah, small world," he re

d to see you here. We can catch up later." K

e. You guys are childhood

eah, Nice to

is lips. "Well, we should probably h

father's guys and my friend, too. Four years older, always watching... He glance

ss Development class, see you tomorrow, bye" he wave

m into the brightly lit washroom. The door clicked s

red, his voice tight. "If you act like that, she

o be so obvious about the mission." He adjusted his hai

nnoyance in his eyes. I'm not a kid anymore, he

is irritating you, but you don

do. His father was counting on him. "I talked to my father," he said, grabbing his ba

ger... And one thing is absent... guess

r a second, a smirk appearing on his lips, a

ts flipped pages through notebooks, others listened to music, and a few applied their makeu

out Nate without being obvious. He was all hunched over his lapt

glance at him and then returned to her notes, hoping Zoey wouldn't notice. But there was something off about

. "Ooh, someone's had their eye on the new

ght he was 'just a random guy

ng up her cheeks. "I wasn't watching him," she ar

thing? Something involving dark hair, blue eye

hand over forehead.