*A Friends to Enemies to Lovers Romance*
Madalynn Reese never expected to see Liam Tucker again. Not after all of these years, and not after he broke all of their promises. But when she heads off to her dream college and runs into her ex-childhood b...
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I sped through the yellow light, knowing there was no time to stop. Not when it was a matter of life or death.
"Come on, come on, come on!" I stared at my speedometer, tapping my steering wheel as I willed the car in front of me to go faster. "Ugh! Move it lady, five over won't kill you!"
But I'm about to die in here if she doesn't--
"--move it!!" I cried, eyeing my demise sitting so calmly on my dashboard, surely ready for a surprise attack any minute. It started crawling closer to me, and I decided my only hope was to try to talk it down.
"Okay, look. Maybe we got off on a bad start here, and I'm truly sorry if I offended you when I tried smooshing you earlier. It's not like I wanted to. I would love it if we could just start over." I pleaded, maybe slightly whined, as it crawled an inch closer, poking one of its' furry legs through the air vent.
This is it. This is how it all ends. That spider is going to crawl into my vent and be blown onto my face, and then we're all gonna die in a fiery crash.
I quickly spotted a pull off into a gas station and made my way toward it, inching as far back into my seat as possible. Another leg went into the vent causing me to go full panic mode as I slammed the car into park and immediately unbuckled. I yanked the door open and started doing this weird jig outside of my vehicle when I heard my name being called out.
"Maddie? What's, uh...what's up with the dance?"
I had stopped my most definitely psycho looking, eebie, jeebie dance, and slowly turned toward a very amused looking Nathan who just so happened to be parked at the pump in front of me.
"No time!" I grabbed him and shoved him to my door, pointing frantically. "Big, hairy, black thing! Get it out!" I pleaded.
His furrowed eyebrows quickly turned upward as an amused grin spread on his face. He went to open his mouth, but I cut him off, lightly pushing on his shoulder.
"Spider first, make fun of me later."
He chuckled as he opened my door and reached into my car, carefully pushing the spider onto his palm. He brought it out, and I jumped back, holding my palms up as I glared in warning.
"Put him in the grass, away from the cars."
"You're scared of him, yet care about his safety?"
I shrugged as he walked a couple of feet, pushing the black devil off his hand, and sighed, knowing my soul wasn't getting stolen today.
"It's not his fault that's he's freaky as heck looking. Now that we're not trapped together and in neutral territory, I would prefer it if he didn't die."
A few minutes more in my car together though, and he would have been sacrificed.
"You are aware of your major, right? You know, saving the environment and its' species?" He chuckled, now leaning against his car with his arms crossed.
