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me.
      
Branden stared at me as if no one else existed in the world. “Because, Moya,”
he smirked, “you’re here with me, right now. You didn’t run away again.”
      
Suddenly, it was as if electricity ran through my entire body. I shivered as
butterflies swarmed around inside my stomach. “Oh,” I said under my breath,
picking at the napkin. I wanted to believe in him so bad. Oh Lord, did I want
to believe.
      
I couldn’t. Just because I was working on being nicer didn’t mean I should fall
for Branden. No. I wouldn’t fall. Please don’t make me fall, I pleaded to my
heart. It was hopeless.
      
“Uh,” I shook nervously, as Branden reached out and placed his hand on top of
mine, soothing it with a warm and intense feeling I’d never felt before. My
heart throbbed. Damn it. I had to pull away before it was too late.
      
I ordered my hand to move, slap his away if necessary. It wouldn’t. In fact, I
was only seconds from turning my hand over to further bask in the arousing
touch of his fingertips when my cell phone started to buzz.
      
Startled, I pulled away quickly and checked the screen. It was a text from
Vanessa. She was waiting in the parking lot for me.
      
I eased out of the seat fast. Branden did the same. Keeping my eyes from his, I
mouthed softly, “I have to go. Nessa’s waiting for me.”
      
Branden reached for my hand, maybe to steal another touch. I swiftly moved past
him before he could and headed toward the exit of the café. He followed behind.
      
“I guess I’ll see you when you get back then,” he said, pushing the door open
for me.
      
“Yeah, see you,” I said, still not making eye contact.
      
I walked outside and across the quad, then down the concrete path towards the
parking lot. Branden stayed behind. The tingling he placed in my stomach was
still lingering there.
      
Vanessa had a perplexed look on her face as I approached my car.
      
“What?” I asked, nonchalantly.
      
She swept her long braids off her shoulders and allowed them to fall down in
her back. “You okay?” she asked.
      
I unlocked the doors but paused before getting in. “Yeah. Why?”
      
Vanessa shook her head and got in the passenger seat. I got in and started the
car.
      
“You don’t seem like yourself, girl. What were you doing, anyway? I thought you
said you were ready when you called me earlier.” She tossed her book bag on the
back seat. “Then all of a sudden you sent me a text saying you weren’t. What
was that about?”
      
I shook my head. “Nothing. It was nothing.”
      
But it was.
      
Putting the car in reverse, I backed out of the parking lot and drove through
the gates. “Let’s get on the road.”
      
     
     
     

 
     
     
    CHAPTER TWELVE

    Branden
     
       I had insisted on not going home this weekend as well. But when my
father showed up at school in the evening, there was no refusing him. I ended
up leaving my dorm obediently.
      
Pulling out of the school parking lot, Dad started off his usual conversation,
“How’s it going, Branden? How are you holding up?”
      
I answered in a flat tone, “I’m doing all right.”
      
Coming to a stop light, he tapped anxiously on the steering wheel, fighting to
say something that was probably burning his mind. “Branden, your mom and I,” he
began, in a hushed voice I hadn’t heard before.
      
I glanced over and waited curiously for what he was about to tell me.
      
Dad shook his head, deciding not to go through with it. “Never mind, it’s not
the right time.”
      
The drive home was filled with even more silence after our brief talk than when
I’d driven with Mom. Both seemed so fearful of speaking to me, almost like
there was a secret other than mine they were trying to keep.
      
I was eager to burst through the front door and head straight to my room when
we got home that night. Of course, Ashton took me off guard the moment I
entered.
      
“Hey, little