"Why are you here?" I flick my eyes across his face, observing his tired features trying to decide what made him so easy to hate. A nonplussed expression graced his face. "It gets pretty dangerous here, you know."
Not that it's a bad thing.
He arches an eyebrow, shrugging. "I didn't know you worried so much about me," he smiles. "Who knew the big, bad Elowen herself had the audacity to care about me." he teased.
I rolled my eyes in annoyance. "I don't."
"It sure sounds like you do to me."
Our eyes momentarily meet from across the three foot space that separates us, until I flip him off. His smile widens immensely, not phased by what he had once referred to as my 'rough charm'.
"How does it feel to be wrong?" I ask leaning against the can behind me.
It's ice cold and I nearly yelp when it touches the bare skin of my wrist. But I manage to stay calm, much to my surprise.
"I've known you for twelve years," he rolls his eyes for the millionth time. I just knew his eyes would roll out of his head any second now and I was ready to stomp on them. "I know when you worry about someone. And Elowen?"
"Don't."
His smile turns into a smirk, testing me. "You worry about me."
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Elowen James and Reece Bloomfield had been enemies since the beginning of time. Or at least from the very second their eyes had met back in kindergarten. It was a start of a horribly wonderful hatred at first sight.
Until Reece quit hating Elowen.
Everyone's had a crush. It's a secret, painful, embarrassing, all consuming and more often than not, it's unrequited. What would happen if you took a chance and told your crush how you felt? If you had nothing to lose...
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"Yes Ally?" she heard him husk in her ear suddenly.
She stiffened before forcing herself to relax and turn to face her best friend.
"I didn't call you over here," she told him calmly.
"I know but you were staring so hard I figured you needed something," he told her with his infuriating smirk.
She smiled sweetly in return, "Now, what could I possibly want from you?"
His eyes roamed over her face for a minute before his arm shot out and wrapped around her waist. She let out a surprised gasp as she suddenly found herself pressed up against him. She shivered involuntarily as she felt his breath fan her face and stiffened again as she realized how close his face was to her own.
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A story about a group of friends going after the boys they've been secretly in love with for all of high school. It's the end of year senior party and it's now or never. They might not get the guy but they'll still have each other in the end.