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“What, you’re not going to show me!?” Luca presses, laughing and reaching again for my schedule.
my
“No way!” I shout, turning so that my back is to the arm of the couchand I’ve got feet between us, ready to kick him away if I need to. I grew up with brothers and cousins, after all I know how to do a couch war. “I didn’t even get a look at it yet!”
“Well, then just tell me what your track is –”
“I cannot,” I say, holding my paper close so that it mysteriously covers half my face. “It is…a state secret.”
Luca laughs again, leaning forward. “You spy,” he hisses, and then quick as a snake he snatches the paper from my face, immediately leaning away and holding the paper far out of my reach.
“Give it back!” I demand, laughing, and throw myself after him, landing half in his lap as I reach for it. Luca laughs hard, but holds his long arm even across Rafe’s body. Rafe, grinning and obliging, snatches the paper out of Luca’s hand and gives it to Jesse.
“Not fair!” I shout, glaring at my brother and my cousin, even though I’m still laughing. “I didn’t even get to look at it yet –”
“Well you’re a shit spy, Ari,” Jesse says, grinning at me and lining my schedule up with his and Rafe’s on his lap, “if you don’t get the information and keep it to yourself for more than ten seconds.”
“Well, I haven’t learned anything about being a spy yet, Jesse,” I say, rolling my eyes at him even as I grin. “That’s why I’m here.”
“Congrats, Ari,” Rafe says, grinning at me. “I know you wanted Espionage Track.”
“Seriously, Shrimp, congratulations,” Luca says, smiling down at me, and as I turn my face to him I realize that I’m…well, I’m kind of still sprawled over his lap, aren’t
I?
I blush beet red, mumbling something about how I’m happy too, and do my best to gracefully crawl off of my mate and back to the corner of the couch.
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Luca grins at me, his smile widening as he notices my awkwardness and my blush. “You’ll be great at it at least you’ll definitely be able to squeeze into all sorts of
tiny spaces.”
I prove him right by pressing myself deep into the corner of the couch, and when I glance to my side to I see Ben grinning at me in absolute wicked delight. I give him a dirty scowl, which just makes him laugh harder.
like we’re all teamed up tomorrow afternoon,” Jesse says, looking up at me and Rafe with raised
he passes it to me, glad to have a minute to look at
says, leaning back in his chair and studying his schedule. “Ben, do you have a weird unnamed class in the afternoon
week. Weird, though, that you guys have a
is right. Almost every morning this week I’ve got Chemistry and Marksmanship, but twice this week – tomorrow included – I’ve got an
at his sheet. Seeing my interest, he hands his schedule to me and scooches closer so that we can study the papers together. He presses his shoulder to mine to do so, and I
have a single thing together, Shrimp.” He sighs and sits back, studying me
remember you fondly,” I reply with mock
leans forward, grabbing his unfinished dinner off the coffee table and starting to
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prospect, leaning down to pick
studying his schedule with interest. “Let’s get cozy. After all, I heard someone say there
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my last bite and move eagerly to the fire, starting to re–stack the logs so that they suit my liking a bit more. “You’ve all got to try some. Nan would die,
a Princess, I think to myself, opening the flue to the chimney with a little smirk on my mouth. But, at least some secrets have
too late – walking a fine line between knowing that they’re not going to be able to sleep tonight for the sake of excitement, and wanting very much to get
room is very cozy at night, it turns out. We spend a couple of hours laughing and chatting around the fire, the oil lamps that Rafe lights around the room giving everything a particularly comfortable glowing ambiance. The coffee cake
the boys take over the conversation, and instead I just…listen. As their words fade to a steady hum I drift away into my own thoughts, thinking
tell my mom everything, all
the hair ribbon in my pocket, and I doze off a little while I stroke
know how long later, and my eyes slowly drift open. It takes a second for me to focus on Luca, leaning towards me a little, but then I gasp with guilt as I realize that in my sleep I
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lap. “Oh, I’m sorry.” I gasp, starting to pull them back,
couch –”
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don’t have to jump away. Slowly, liking the feel of his hand on my leg a little too much, I relax. “I’m just leaving now.” He murmurs. “But I wanted to
almost the sort of thing he wouldn’t notice that he was doing. But when I move my eyes back up to his, and find his intense stare
He knows what he’s
glance up at the clock I startle. “Luca!” I gasp, leaning forward to smack him on the shoulder, “You have to
says, shrugging and ignoring my weak blow. “Besides, it was
relaxing listening
straight. “I
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