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joined at the hip? It was you who broke us up, y'know.”
     
    Savannah's heart skipped a beat. “It was?”
     
    “Not exactly news here.”
     
    “I barely talked to either of you while you were dating.”
     
    “Umm. Yeah. And for some reason that pissed him off.” Paige rolled her eyes. “Decide whether or not you wanna fuck him, Savannah. In the meantime, you owe me for not making you even more of a social pariah. It totally doesn't matter now, but I wanna know who the girl is.”
     
    “What girl?”
     
    “The one Thorn's been hard for since forever?” She blinked. “His supercrush? Don't tell me he hasn't told you.”
     
    “Paige—”
     
    “What? You guys haven't talked in like three days. That's a bajillion years in freak time.” She made a face. “I figured he finally admitted who the mystery girl was and you threw your typical little hissy fit.”
     
    Savannah sighed hard and slammed her locker shut, then tossed her backpack over her shoulder. “Really can't imagine why he let a winner like you go,” she snapped. “Nice catching up and all, but maybe next time we could, you know,not .”
     
    “So you don't know?”
     
    “Knowwhat? There isnothing to know!”
     
    Hell must have frozen; no other way Paige McKenzie could have narrowed her eyes in such a way as to make Savannah feel like the weakest link on an obvious joke. Only a few seconds of recovery lapsed before the pinhead started talking again, though it might as well have spanned a lifetime. “Youreally don't know,” she said, barking a laugh. “Ohwow . And here I thought you guys were, like, close. Thorn's been hot for some girl for forever. It's sick and pathetic, but he won't give it up. He never said anything, but I knew. Ialways know about these things.”
     
    Savannah swallowed hard.Oh God.
     
    “Oh.”
     
    Paige shrugged a shoulder. “If he hasn't told you, he won't. It's abig secret . He totally dated me to make her jealous. Oh well. Guess it didn't work. At least I got to ride that monster cock.”
    She paused and favored Savannah with a mean look. “Whoops. Sorry. Forgot I was talking to thevirgin . You have at leastseen one, haven't you?”
     
    Savannah's jaw hardened, her hand tightening around her backpack strap. A few days ago, the comment would have smarted—would have confirmed the rumors she always suspected Daniel had spread about her—but now… God, she barely felt a thing. She was too preoccupied raging about Wesley. What Wesley had done with this girl…this girl he swore sideways only held his loathing. How could he have touched Paige the way he'd touched her? Paige knew how Wesley looked, knew how he felt and tasted. She'd done the girlfriend thing and had taught him things Savannah could barely stomach to consider. Things that should have been solely reserved for her.
     
    The ways he could have touched trash like Paige made her skin crawl.
     
    Still, somehow, Savannah managed to stave off her anger long enough to form at least one coherent thought. If nothing else, she wanted to get it out before the world around her blackened.
    “Why bother?” she replied. “Rumor has it there's nocock in this town youhaven't seen. Don't see why you'd need my input.”
     
    And without another word, she spun on her heel and stalked down the hallway.
     
    She hadn't seen Wesley all day.All day.
     
    How she could miss someone who wasn't truly gone was beyond her, but this had to stop. He had to know. Things couldn't go back to the way they had been. They just couldn't.
     
    Not when she was so helplessly in love with him.

    * * * *

    This had to end.
     
    He didn't know why he'd thought things would be different—Christ knew nothing ever went the way he thought it would—but after yesterday, after what they'd shared, he'd expectedsomething from Savannah at school. A wave, a look, a small private smile for the secret brewing between them. Any goddamn thing would have sufficed, but the woman hadn't so much as