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[color=darkgray][indent][indent][indent][color=36506B]“Sorry dude… is it ok if I steal her away for a couple of minutes?”[/color][/indent]
Although her face was as impassive as ever as she excused herself with Jasper and followed Max outside, a nervous Ariana was secretly going down the list of reasons as to why the lacrosse captain would want to privately speak to her. Had he figured out what was [i]actually[/i] happening between her and Jasper? They [i]had[/i] made out quite publicly that first time when she’d asked him to be her date, after all. King’s Academy was a small school, so it was common for juicy news about hookups to travel around fast. And with how odd it would’ve been to spot the cheer captain tongue wrestling with the quiet, shy music prodigy of their class, she wouldn’t be surprised if any rumors had reached her darling Maxie’s ears. That was a possibility.

Or… There was [i]another[/i] worse case scenario she was starting to entertain… Had Max realized what was the true nature of her relationship with Jace? Not that there [i]was[/i] a relationship there nowadays, but it’s not like they had been subtle about their pettiness towards each other in the last few weeks. The glaring, the ignoring, the snide remarks, the way she jumped onto Max whenever Jace showed around, or the way Jace stared daggers at them whenever together... She’d often dismissed Max as being too dumb to notice the questionable things that happened around them, but had she underestimated him? Had the oblivious Max Wallenberg [i]actually[/i] put the pieces of the puzzle together and figured out she’d been hooking up with their math teacher? Because that would be a [i]Disaster with a capital D[/i].

[indent][color=BF225D][i]Holy shit, Ariana: [b]pull yourself together[/b]!!! Christ! It’s not a big deal![/i][/color][/indent]
She was freaking overreacting! It was probably something stupid and mundane anyway, right? Like maybe he just wanted to tell her how hot she looked. Yeah, that was probably it. Or maybe he just wanted to tell her all the dirty things he would do to her, but didn’t want Jasper around to hear because it would be awkward as hell? Huh, maybe. Or, heck, maybe he just wanted to whisk her away like a thief in the night for, I don’t know, a [i]normal[/i], PG conversation about their day? Another plausible scenario! 

Oh well… Time to find out.

[color=BF225D]“Hey baby,”[/color] the girl cooed, wrapping her arms around him and pulling him in for a brief kiss. Better to butter him up just in case things went south-- seduction was always a powerful weapon. [color=BF225D]“Everything okay?”[/color][/indent][/indent][/color]