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  we were at the sow. he turo me as he pulled into a
  parking space.
  ”what musi your cd player right now?” he asked, his faber
  as if he'd asked for a murder .
  i realized i'd he cd phil had given me. when i said the
  he band, he smiled crookedly, a peculiar expression in his eyes.
  he flipped open a ent under his car's cd player, pulled out one
  of thirty or so cds that were jammed into the small spad ha
  to me,
  ”debussy to this?” he raised an eyebrow.
  it was the same cd. i examihe familiar cover art, keeping my eyes
  down.
  it ued like that for the rest of the day. while he walked me to
  english, wheer spanish, all through the lunch hour, he
  questiolessly abnifit detail of my
  existence. movies i'd liked ahe few places i'd been and the
  maed to go, and books — endlessly books.
  i 't remember the last time i'd talked so much. more often than
  self-scious, i must be b him. but the
  absolute absorption of his fad his ream of
  questioo ostly his questions were easy, only
  a very few triggering my easy blushes. but when i did flush, it brought
  on a whole new rouions.
  such as the time he asked my favemstone, and i blurted out topaz
  before thinking. he'd been fli me with such speed that
  i felt like i was takihose psychiatric tests where you answer
  with the first word that ind. i was sure he would have
  ued dowal list he was followihe
  blush. my faed betil very retly, my favorite
  gemstone was gar ossible, while staring bato his topaz
  eyes, he reasoaturally, he
  wouldil i'd admitted why i was embarrassed.
  ”tell me,” he finally aer persuasion failed — failed only
  because i kept my eyes safely away from his face.
  ”it's the color of your eyes today,” i sighed, surrearing down
  at my hands as i fiddled iey hair. ”i suppose if you asked
  me in two weeks i'd say onyx.” i'd giveion than necessary
  in my unwilliy, and i worried it would provoke the strange anger
  that flared whenever i slipped aoo clearly how obsessed i
  was.
  but his pause was very short.
  ”what kinds of flowers do you prefer?” he fired off.
  i sighed in relief, and ued with the psyalysis.
  biology li again. edward had ued with his quizzing
  up until mr. bahe r the audiovisual frame
  agaieacher approached the light switoticed edward slide
  his chair slightly farther away from mi didn't help. as soon as the
  room was dark, there was the same electric spark, the same restless
  g to stretd across the short spad touch his cold
  skierday.
  i leaned forward oable, resting my y folded arms, my
  hidden fingers grippiable's edge as i fought to ighe
  irrational longing that uled me. i didn't look at him, afraid that
  if he was looki would only make self-uch
  harder. i siried to watch the movie, but at the end of the hour
  i had i'd just seen. i sighed in relief again when mr.
  bahe lights on, finally glang at edward; he was looking
  at me, his eyes ambivalent.
  he rose ihen stood still, waiting for me. ard
  the gym in sileerday. and, also like yesterday, he touched
  my face wordlessly — this time with the back of his d, stroking
  onple to my jaw — before he turned and walked away.
  gym passed quickly as i watched mike's one-man badminton show. he didn't
  speak to me today, either io my vat expression or because
  he was still angry about our squabble yesterday. somewhere, in a er
  of my mi bad about that. but i 't trate on him.
  i hurried to ge afterward, ill at ease, ker i moved,
  the sooner i ard. the pressure made me more clumsy t