“You won’t get in trouble for dragging me away, will you?” Liam really is only asking because he doesn’t want her to get in trouble in general, let alone for him.
“I dragged you away, huh? Well, I can always take you back. I forgot how much of a straight-laced nerd you are when it comes to rule following.” Bodhi says as she throws a small taunting smirk over her shoulder.
Liam scoffs and throws a sarcastic smirk back at her. “I think you’re thinking of yourself, dolly.”
Bodhi shuffles faster just a little; just to hide her heated cheeks.
She’d forgotten about that silly nickname. Her mother used to say she looked like a pretty little dolly when she was a baby and Liam used to tease the heck out of her for it.
Well, until he didn’t, and then, suddenly, he’d started using it just as endearingly as her mother once had. The last time he called her that was over five years ago now, the day her mother died.
Oblivious, Liam sighs and says, “I just don’t want you getting in trouble for me. You seem to have gotten yourself as far up the ladder as Xaden.” He’s grinning when she pauses in the hallway and turns to him with a small awkward smile.
Bodhi narrows her eyes a little as she asks, “How do you know he didn’t just bring me up with him?”
It’s what others think...
OK, it’s what all the stupid girls who are jealous of her being so close to Xaden think. Which: gross. But whatever, she is technically the only girl he’s sociable to, let alone nice to. Kind of. He has his moments.
But this is Liam. And Liam isn’t like other people. And he never has been.
Which is why he easily melts Bodhi’s defences when his grin brightens his eyes and he tells her, “Nah. If anything, I bet you were the first to step foot on that ladder. Xaden just intimidates his way through life, which, yeah, works for him, because it kind of has to. But you?”
Bodhi’s heart flutters at the proud look he gives her.
“You never want to be the reason people are unhappy. You never complain about anything, even when you most definitely have every right to. And you’re just...kind of the best.” Liam ends with a small smile and shrugs off his words before he ends up getting too deep in the middle of the fricking hallway of all places—and on his very first day seeing her again after so fucking long, of all times.
Bodhi silently clears her throat. “I am, aren’t I?” She grins when he rolls his eyes, that cute small smile still tugging at his lips.
“The shadowed one has began calling out the sections.” Cuir informs her, “I am currently presenting myself along with Sgaeyl and the others.”
“OK, thanks. I’ll tell Liam in a moment.” Bodhi tells her before motioning for Liam to follow her down to the end of the hallway.
She pauses outside one door, points a thumb to it and tells him, “This one’s Xaden’s. That one’s mine.” She points to the door opposite. “Imogen and I are the only girls on this wing. Hers is that one and Garrick’s is that one.” She points to the door next to hers, then, the one beside Xaden’s. Then, she points to the door to the left of Xaden’s and says, “That one will be yours when you finish your first year. He’s been saving it for you. They don’t like it, but Xaden managed to keep most of us living together.”
Liam nods, then, follows her through the next set of hallways.
She brings them outside, across the stone patio and through small tunnel that leads out into the tiny courtyard in front of the first year dorms, which she tells him as she gives him the quick tour along the way.
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The Things You See In Me ((Female Bodhi Durran/Liam Mairi))
Fanfiction"First of all, he's not my boy. Second of all, I haven't seen or spoken to him for a whole year. A lot can happen in a year."
