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When Lilah, an innocent eighteen year old, moves nearly eight hours from her rural town and rough past to have a fresh start at college in New York with her best friend and her older brother, the last thing she expected...
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I walked with slight trembling hands as I followed beside Nate down the sidewalk. He suggested a nice cafe down the block from where our class was, but it was still on the campus. I don't know why I felt so nervous. Maybe because it was my first time going out with a guy before.
Not that it was anything fancy or a super serious thing. If anything, it felt as casual as if I was going out with Natalie despite Nate calling me pretty and saying he liked me. I realized Nate's eyes were glancing at me and I didn't notice he had said something, again.
"Huh? What'd you say? I'm sorry I was lost in thought." I admitted, bashfully bringing my bottom lip into my mouth. He chuckled and lightly shook his head.
"You do that often, don't you?" He asked and I went to speak up and defend my easily distracted mind only to hesitate. Technically, I had been doing it often, but it was only happening since Friday night when I had ran into Jacks-
No, I will not think of him or his name. Or his annoyingly good looking tattoos and black rings on his thick fingers. His hands looked very different than what they looked like when we were kids. I went to go shake my head to get the thoughts to stop before I nearly forgot Nate was still looking at me, curiosity now in his gaze. He probably thought I was weird. Wouldn't be the first time someone told me that.
"What's on your mind hun?" He asked, his head slightly tilting and a look of concern making his eyebrows furrow.
"You seem.. out of it." He said after a moment of trying to find the right words. I felt my cheeks warm up from the nickname he had said, but tried to act casual as if I had been called a nice nickname before. Let alone in a flirty way.
"Nothing. I think I'm just already getting a little stressed about school and fitting in." I kind of told him the truth, not wanting to mention another no-named man who had been in my thoughts too. Although I barely knew Nate, I felt like I could talk to him about some of my problems and he would be understanding.
Hopefully.
"You've got nothing to worry about. You are a kind, strong, independent girl who doesn't have a single reason for people to dislike you." He reassured me and smiled, putting his hand on my back and lightly rubbing it. I smiled back but on the inside felt my stomach turn into knots. As kind and supportive he was, he clearly didn't truly understand why I was worried.
Of course, I shouldn't expect him to know as he knew nothing about me but the last thing I wanted to do was shove all of my problems onto somebody who I would just start to consider a friend. The last thing I'd want to do is scare him off and have him tell others about my personal issues and everyone else avoid me as well.
