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way on purpose, but Leo was. He took a deep breath and nodded understandingly, he definitely knew.
    Leo had changed into a pair of black straight fitting jeans and a dark grey polo shirt. He sat so close but, at the same time, was so far away. I picked at my food eating a couple of bite size pieces of fish and salad. I left the remainder on my plate and took it to the drop off area, so that it could be cleaned. I didn’t go back to the table to excuse myself but used the opportunity to sneak off unnoticed.
    As I walked back to my dorm, I heard footsteps behind me. Leo ran up beside me.
    “Are you all right? I heard you broke it off with Henry. He’s really torn up over you. I knew you were worth it.”
    “Pardon?”
    “I said I knew you would be worth it.”
    “What does that mean?” I said almost angrily.
    “It means I think your worth being torn over. You would be hard to get over.”
    “And how would you know?”
    “Because when I look at you, you do things to me.”
    “You confuse me. I don’t understand why I’m so drawn to you.”
    “And I am drawn to you. I have this need to be close to you. I want to protect you, to look after you....” He stopped, realising perhaps he had said too much.
    “I don’t need protection.”
    “It’s just a figure of speech. I want to be with you.”
    I raised my eyebrows, “I want you too...” I trailed off in thought.
    “But?” he questioned.
    “But nothing. I want you too, but I can’t have you.”
    “Why?”
    “Because one of my best friends has earmarked herself for you, because you are Henry’s room-mate and you said it yourself, he is pretty broken up because of me. Besides you said I was dangerous for you.”
    We started walking again, still in the direction towards my dorm, past the hedges and close to the woods situated behind the dorm, “I said dangerous because there’s more to me than meets the eye.”
    “Cryptic puzzle again?” I argued.
    He looked down at me as if surprised by my comment, but he didn’t give me an answer. We continued to stroll towards my dorm, and before I knew what was happening he held me around the waist and pulled me into the woods, he was fast, so very fast, I might not have even noticed had it not been for the change in our surroundings. We were now standing about twenty metres into the forest area. Without hesitation Leo planted a long lingering smouldering kiss on my lips.
    I licked my lips enjoying the kiss, “What was that for?”
    “Didn’t you like it?”
    “I liked it. I liked it a lot, but what was that? You just got from my dorm to here in less than a second. There’s twenty metres between where we are standing and the dorm.” I pointed out.
    “I’m quick.” He shrugged.
    “Yeah, you are, and that’s an understatement.”
    “Don’t read too much into it, Holly. It’s nothing.”
    “But it’s questionable, and I like answers to questions.”
    “Your timing is way out. You just think it was a second.”
    “No. It was a second.”
    “It was more than a second,” Leo said.
    “Is this you doing the ‘you say potato and I say partato’ thing?”
    “Pardon?”
    “Never mind.” I shrugged.
    “Are you finished?” Not giving me a chance to answer, he held my head with both of his hands as he bent down to kiss me once again and I automatically moved my body forward. He moved one of his hands from my face and put it around my waist, pulling me in tight to his body. Leo’s grip was strong and I liked being fixed to him. We stopped and I pressed my lips together again having enjoyed what just happened.
    I pulled away. “Wasn’t I just saying that we can’t be together?” I asked.
    “Did you like it?”
    “Yes.”
    “So did I. Listen, Holly, life’s too short. We never know how long we will have with each other, so why not make the most of it?”
    Something about the way he said this made me wonder if he wasn’t planning to be around for long, but I dismissed it, thinking he probably meant