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the beer when he yanked it from my hands and downed the rest of it. My
    eyes fixated on his lips wrapped around the bottle before he slammed it down. “What…people can’t do
    things for other people without there being an ulterior motive?”
    “I guess. But seriously, you don’t have to.”
    “I don’t have to. You’re right. I want to. I wouldn’t have offered otherwise. I told you, math is easy for
    me. The hard part is gonna be getting you motivated.”
    “Motivated?”
    “Yeah. See, people are capable of amazing things when they’re motivated.”
    “Isn’t not getting kicked out of nursing school motivation enough?”
    He smirked and shook his head in disagreement. “No, it’s not. I can tell that’s not enough for you. You
    need something that will really make you want to pass, like your life depends on it.
    I rubbed my temples. “I am not following you.”
    “I’ll explain then. Okay, so…I’m gonna tutor you, right? If you get an A on every exam,
    fanfuckingtastic! I’m doing my job because you should be getting an A on every exam. If you get lower
    than an A, then there should be consequences.”
    “Consequences?”
    He nodded slowly with a mischievous grin. “Consequences.”
    “Like?”
    “Like…when I first met you, you said you were afraid of a lot of things. And from the look on your
    face, I could tell it was more than just a slight fear. You need to get over that, Nina.”
    I shuddered at the seriousness of his tone and the fact that for the first time, he said my name.
    “I am not following you,” I said.
    “Let me explain. I tutor you. But for every exam grade lower than an A, you will have to face one of
    your fears.”
    I felt a rush of panic creeping in, and my heart started to pound. Without saying anything for several
    seconds, I just stared at him before asking, “Can you be more specific?”
    “Don’t get all freaked out on me. I’ll be there with you. We’ll do something that scares you, that you’ve
    been avoiding, but you won’t know what it is until we get there. It’s better that way, so that you are not
    building up anxiety anticipating it. We’ll expose you to it, until it doesn’t scare you anymore. See, from
    what I can tell from your body language, I am making you really fucking nervous right now. And that’s a
    good thing, because it means you are going to work your ass off to ace those tests. But either way, you win.
    You just might not see it that way.”
    He had to be kidding me. I barely knew this guy, but he could read me like a book.
    “What if I don’t want to participate in this bet?”
    Jake got up and threw the bottle in the recycle bin. “Then, you’re on your own, chica.”
    I felt like throwing up, not because I was about to fail math but because I knew I was about to agree to
    his terms. It scared the living hell out of me, but at the same time, I felt a bittersweet excitement like never before.
    He stuck out his hand. “Deal?”
    I hesitated then shook his hand as he squeezed mine tightly. “Deal.”
    Gosh, if my body reacted like this to just the touch of his hand, I couldn’t imagine what it would do if
    he were to—
    “You want to start tomorrow night?” he asked.
    “Okay.”
    “Give me your phone,” he said.
    I looked at him strangely.
    “Give me your phone,” he demanded again.
    I didn’t ask why and just handed it to him. To be honest, with the way I have been reacting to this guy, I
    probably would have done anything he asked me to at this point.
    “Stay here,” he said.
    He walked away down the hall to his room with it, and that made me extremely nervous. I didn’t want
    him looking at my browsing history or text messages, even though there was really nothing incriminating.
    I shouted. “What are you doing with my phone?”
    “Don’t worry about it,” I heard him yell from his room.
    “Can I have it back please?” Why was I listening to him and staying here in the kitchen like an idiot?
    A few minutes