Ever so slowly, I lowered my mouth to the lime. As I did so, I felt the brush of her lips on mine.
Just a touch. Just a breath, and it ignited fire in my veins.
And at that moment, I forgot a lot. My heart stopped, my breathing quit, my thoughts cea...
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We finished up the problems around 11:45. Lunch was at 12, so we had a few minutes to spare.
"So, tell me about yourselves." Callum stretched and placed his hands behind his head.
"Um, well, I'm Emilia-"
"Shit, really?" Callum asked, feigning surprise.
I grinned. "Ha-ha."
A side of his lips rose in a half-smile. "And your accent, is that Italian?"
"Yeah. I moved to America when I was really young."
"It's pretty," he said. "I like it."
"Grazie."
"Tell us some fun facts about you. Think of random things," Lacey prompted. "Siblings? Family? Tattoos?"
I ignored the first two questions. "Ooh, I actually do." I pulled my hair to the right side of my head, showing my left ear. I turned so they could see. "I have two small hearts behind here."
"What're those for?"
I turned to Augustus, who had been quiet this whole time. "My parents," I answered.
He nodded slowly, his dark eyes still glued to my ear.
"Any more?" Callum asked.
"Yeah, but the others are more concealed." I gave him a sly look. "You'll have to find those out by yourself."
He smirked at me. "Challenge accepted, Em."
"Em? That's new." I smiled at his nickname.
"I like Emie better," Lacey said.
"Most people call me Mila."
"We're not 'most people', Em. We're Princeton students," Callum said.
"Right," I replied sarcastically, biting back my grin.
"'Emie' is cute," Aurora agreed with Lacey, and Rohan nodded beside her.
The announcer interrupted us before I could reply to let us know that lunch was beginning. We shuffled through the lunch lines by table group and sat back down.
"So, Augustus," Lacey began once we were sitting down and eating. "Damn, that's a long name."
"I don't have a nickname," he grumbled.
"We should give you one," Callum said excitedly. "Augie, maybe?"
"Nicknames are pointless." He took a bite of his sandwich.
"Okay, grumpy. Call all of us by our full names, then." Lacey rolled her eyes. "That wasn't even the point. Tell us about yourself."
Augustus swallowed his food before speaking. "What do you want to know?"
