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I went back to school. This was the right thing to do, the most inconspicuous way to behave.
By the end of the day, almost all the other students had returned to class, too. Just Tyler and Jungkook and a few others-who were probably using the accident as a chance to ditch-remained absent.
It shouldn't be so hard for me to do the right thing. But, all afternoon, I was gritting my teeth against the urge that had me yearning to ditch, too-in order to go find the boy again. Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed, vampire stalker.
School today was somehow, impossibly-even more boring than it had seemed just a week ago. It was as if the color had drained from the bricks, the trees, the sky, the faces around me... I stared at the cracks in the walls.
There was another right thing I should be doing...that I was not. Of course, it was also a wrong thing. It all depended on the perspective from which you viewed it.
From the perspective of a Cullen-not just a vampire, but a Cullen, someone who belonged to a family, such a rare state in our world-the right thing to do would have gone something like this:
"I'm surprised to see you in class, Taehyung. I heard you were involved in that awful accident this morning."
"Yes, I was, Mr. Banner, but I was the lucky one." A friendly smile. "I didn't get hurt at all... I wish I could say the same for Tyler and Jungkook."
"How are they?"
"I think Tyler is fine...just some superficial scrapes from the windshield glass. I'm not sure about Jungkook, though." A worried frown. "He might have a concussion. I heard he was pretty incoherent for a while, seeing things even. I know the doctors were worried..."
That's how it should have gone. That's what I owed my family.
"I'm surprised to see you in class, Taehyung. I heard you were involved in that awful accident this morning."
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"I wasn't hurt." No smile.
Mr. Banner shifted his weight from foot to foot, uncomfortably. "Do you have any idea how Tyler Crowley and Jungkook Jeon are? I heard there were some injuries..."
