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because he keeps staring back here. He looks pissed.”
    I turned my attention to Parker’s table at the front of the room. Sure enough, he and the jock he was sitting with were staring back at me. The muscle head looked amused while Parker studied me with narrowed eyes. Just like at the beach, it felt like he could see too deeply inside my head. I quickly averted my gaze from his penetrating stare. “He’s weird,” I mumbled, more to myself than to Michael.
    “Well, you’re one of the only girls in school to think that. Most of them would be falling over themselves for his attention.”
    I gave him a sarcastic laugh. “Yeah, I’ll pass. That’s not really my style.”
    Luckily, the teacher chose that moment to walk into the room and begin class. I spent the rest of the period forcing myself to keep my head down, even though I could feel Parker’s eyes on me the whole time.

    As I stepped through the cafeteria doors, I scanned the tables looking for somewhere out of sight where I could sit in peace. Unfortunately, almost every table seemed to be filled with loud, boisterous teenagers. It wasn’t until I saw a familiar cloud of unruly red curls that I breathed a sigh of relief. I made my way over to the table where Stella was sitting, dropping my bag in front of an empty chair.
    “Someone sitting here?”
    “No!” she responded excitedly. I was beginning to think Stella’s response to almost everything was pure excitement. “Have a seat. I’m so glad we have the same lunch hour.”
    “Me, too.” I gave her a small smile as I sat down and scooted my chair in, silently appraising the rest of the people around me. Obnoxiously loud laughter drew my attention to a table near the back of the cafeteria. As soon as my gaze fell onto a familiar pair of dark brown eyes, I instantly regretted looking in that direction. Parker sat front and center, surrounded by a group of people who just oozed popular crowd . I recognized a few of them, one being the bitchy girl, Brynn, I had English with and the other was the boy Parker had been sitting with in Biology. From how they were staring down other students and leaning in to snicker with each other, they didn’t exactly come off as approachable. That tiny voice in my brain screamed for me to turn away, but something in Parker’s eyes refused to release my gaze. I was stuck. His brows were drawn together as he stared at me, an unreadable expression on his face as his intent focus bore into me, sending a spark of electricity throughout my entire body.
    “Those are the guys I was telling you about earlier.” Stella’s voice helped to pull me out of the intense moment I seemed to be having with Parker even from all the way across the room.
    I blinked and shook my head to clear it as I turned back to Stella. “Huh?”
    “Parker’s friends,” she said with a curl of her lip. “They’re loud and annoying. Honestly, I don’t know how he can stand most of them. They’re a bunch of jerks.”
    I briefly glanced back in that direction to find Parker’s eyes were still on me even though the perky little blonde at his side was doing everything in her power to get his attention.
    “Who’s the girl?” I asked, trying to mask the disgust on my face as Cheerleader Barbie practically shoved her entire tongue into his ear. “She looks like she’s trying to taste his brain.”
    Stella’s cheerful laughter cut through the raucous sounds of the table we were discussing. “That’s his ex, Cassidy.”
    “They don’t look much like exes to me,” I said, turning my full attention to Stella and trying my hardest to ignore their table.
    “Yeah, you’d think that…except for the fact he that can’t seem to take his eyes off you.” She gave me a little wink as a huge smile spread across her face. I let out a scoffing laugh in an effort to ignore the heat setting my face on fire. “Don’t believe me? Take a look for yourself.”
    Against my better judgment, my head moved back