r looked at a librar

s poured out of the classrooms, laughing, calling to one another, their voices a blur of noise as they brushed past her. In that moment, it felt a

classmates, her

of his infuriatingly smug expression that always seemed to have a smirk dancing at the edges of his lips, like he knew something she didn't. But there i

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k was smudged in places, as if it had been written in a r

run straight to the school board. This wasn't a game, it wasn't a dare it was dangerous. But then t

she

d with the hum of activity, felt eerily still. The air was thick with something else, something she couldn't put her finger on so

s she paused before the door, her han

as l

aybe he had changed his mind. Maybe this whole t

ic

locked from

d before she could re

e he

l school ID nowhere in sight. The transformation was immediate. He didn't look like a st

e low, almost a challenge. He

ted, her pul

ered, but even to her own

casually, his eyes

idn't

far corner casting long shadows across the rows of books. The silence w

ack. He didn't say a word, and neither did she. They moved in tand

in the furthest corner, was a row of books, tall and imposing. A place where no on

Amara whispered, her

, his tone almost too

't move

muttered, frustration

see it? Every time I walk into your classroom, you stop breathing. Your eyes al

er voice cracking as the weigh

d closer

against her, his presence swallowing her wh

rules?" he asked, his lips barely an

o step back. But something in his words som

he words tumbling from her mout

I've been counting down the hours just to be near you again Ju

inside her-a mixture of fear and desire, pullin

er wrist, slow and deliber

idn't p

le in a way she hadn't expected "Not in some teenage fantasy way

mbled, and she hated

t against her skin. And when she didn't push him away, when she didn

ind racing as panic clawed at h

low and filled with cer

hiver down her spine She was drowning in his presenc

ld ever know," he whispered "No cameras, N

ed in the air-a

r whole body trembling. "You wouldn't dare," she whispered, h

ouching her ear. "I don't need to k

y n

h," he murmured "And I want you to feel that.

es wide, her heart pounding so h

" she said, the words thick with

e said, his voice a q

ard her, their lips just an inch apart Her breath was shallow, w

spered fiercely "Fine. But

n their

oft It wasn

r that neither of them could name Hands roamed, breath hitched, and all s

em gasping for air, Amara's heart was rac

d, though even to her

ragged, a devilish smile playi

he said, his voice thick

nd, the library door swung

ma

stopped Mr

onto hers for a h

ind a nearby shelf as though

e aisle, his eyes scan

his voice casual "Though

a smile, her

for a book I recomm

nd, frowning slight

to lock up soon Wouldn't want an

h it felt more like a m

her heart still hammering in her

dge of a shelf, h

her

07 After school

round her blurring as the words

asn'

just