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Chapter 13: They All Saw

Play list for this Chapter: Delicate by Taylor Swift

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I couldn't focus. At all. All I could think of was the feeling of Nicholas' lips on mine, his hands on my waist, gently carressing my face. 

I shook my head, coming back to reality and trying very hard to focus on the matter at hand. Abby gave me a confused look and I reassured her I was fine, looking down at my notebook where I was supposed to write notes. 

Instead, I had doodled a certain someone's name all over it. 

Shit.

I quickly tore out the page, crumpling it and stuffing it in my back before someone saw. Abby looked at me, raising her eyebrow questioningly but I gave her a small smile and shook my head subtly.

I guess she saw.

At lunch, I carried my food towards our usual table where Cole was already seated, scrolling on his phone. I swear the two were inseparable. He looked up as we approached and smiled like a Cheshire cat.

Oh, he knows too.

I sat down, ignoring the dirty looks the girls threw towards me and focusing on the faces in front of me.

"What?" I sighed, picking up my apple juice and stabbing it with a straw.

"Rumor has it, that Dove Winchester came to college with her sugar daddy." Cole spoke and I choked on the juice.

"What?" I said between coughs and Abby rubbed my back.

"You could've told us you wanted to come with someone else." Abby looked at me skeptically and I put my hands up in surrender.

"I didn't, I swear! He was already there when I went out of the house. And then he insisted he take me to college or he would carry me to his car." I told them both in one single breath and they both started laughing.

"Boy, that would've been a sight." Cole exclaimed, wiping a fake tear from his eye and looking at me, still smiling. 

"Why'd you kiss him though?" I ran a hand through my hair. 

"I didn't intend to, he just pulled me towards him and kissed me in front of the whole freaking college! I just... kissed him back." I whisper screamed and Abby giggled. 

"What?" I asked them and they both shook their heads. 

"He started it! Like he did last night!" I spoke and realized what I just spewed and froze. It dawned on me that I just announced that he stayed over last night. 

Not that he did, but it sure sounded like it. Both Abby and Cole looked at me with horror. 

"He stayed with you last night?" Abby asked me in disbelief then looked towards Cole. 

"Hand over my fifty bucks."

"No!" I exclaimed and both their heads turned towards me, so I told them everything about how he came last night at 2 a.m., completely unexpected, and then kissed me.I even told them what we talked about, and both of them listened to me without batting an eye.

"And then he dropped me off here in the morning, and even asked me what time I would be free." I sighed, running a hand over my face.

"And you told him?" Cole asked me and I nodded.

"Even if I didn't, he would've stayed here the whole day and that would've been even worse." I explained and he nodded his head like he understood.

 "And you know the worst thing?" I told them and they both leaned in closer to listen.