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“I thought you wanted to put it off like I did?”
    “I do, but I figure we’re not going to do anything else for the next couple of hours anyways so we might as well get it out of the way,” I sipped my pop and looked at Brittany contemplatively for a second. “Plus, Brittany looks like she’s been reincarnated as dirty sponge so she’s probably not going to be up for doing anything tonight and will enjoy the company of her textbooks.”
    Everyone agreed and we decided to make the walk to the University Center, or UC, to get our shopping done. We’d all returned to the room long enough to get our class lists. We compared them as we walked.
    “Ooh, we have astronomy together,” Paris actually seemed excited.
    I didn’t know how excited I was. I just wanted something that wasn’t too gross to complete my science requirement. I had a feeling that’s why Paris signed up, too. She was an art major. Cutting open a frog didn’t seem like something that was going to be in her wheelhouse.
    When we got to the UC, we were happy to discover that the bookstore wasn’t too crowded. The good news is , three of my five textbooks were available for Kindle so that meant less heavy lifting. Unfortunately, I had to buy textbooks for my math and astronomy classes. Still, it was better than it could have been.
    Paris only had to buy the astronomy class book. Brittany , however, bought textbooks for all her classes. When we saw her carrying two large bags full of books over to us, Paris and I exchanged a curious glance.
    “They’re not available on Kindle?” I asked.
    “I don’t like Kindle books.”
    “Why?”
    “What do you mean why? I like a real textbook where I can underline stuff.”
    “You can underline stuff with a Kindle, too.”
    “Not with a colored highlighter.”
    Well, you can’t argue with that logic. Brittany found herself distracted by the sweatshirts. For my part, I decided I needed a Coke to drive away the remnants of my hangover.
    I made my way over to the refrigerated section and found what I was looking for. I slid the door shut after I made my selection and turned around only to find myself running into a wall that was apparently some guy’s chest. I actually wasn’t sure at first. It was far too big to belong to a normal guy.
    “Sorry,” I sputtered trying to take a step back and banging my head against the refrigerator.
    The chest belonged to an extremely tall man – like 6’3” tall – who took a step back to give me a chance to recover myself. As I regained my senses I realized – even though he’d moved back slightly – he was still a little too close for my comfort.
    “Are you alright?” The voice that came from the behemoth couldn’t possibly be human – or normal. It sounded like it belonged to a giant or something – like Fezzik in ‘The Princess Bride’ without that weird lisp thing he had.
    “I’m fine,” I grumbled. I didn’t like feeling penned in.
    “Here, let me see,” the guy reached his extremely large hands towards my head.
    Without thinking, I slapped them away. “I said I was fine.”
    I finally got a glimpse at the head attached to the wall of chest and sucked in a quick breath. It was pretty impressive – well, as far as heads go. No dimples and dark skin, but a full head of wavy black hair and some really intense brown eyes.
    Did Covenant grow these guys on trees or something? This is just ridiculous.
    “I’m not going to hurt you,” the guy rumbled.
    I felt a little ridiculous for overreacting – especially since I realized he was hot – so I tried to offer him a friendly smile as an apology.
    “No, you just took me by surprise,” I said quietly. Internally I was adding that he also almost knocked me senseless – but I doubted that would be a good topic of conversation to open with.
    The wall of muscles with the great hair smiled down at me. I couldn’t help but notice that, even though he didn’t have dimples, his eyes crinkled at the