Playing Defense (Corrigan Falls Raiders) - Plot & Excerpts
Everyone else was still working on theirs, since Oliver had extended his beyond going to the first youth group meeting to actually spending some time with the guy he’d met there. “I want you to keep going with the math,” Claudia told me as she traced invisible lines from the back of my wrist up to my elbow, then down again. It was Thursday at lunch and we were sitting in the library, at least twenty other kids and a couple adults all in the same well-lit room, and I had never been so hyperaware of my forearms in my life. She wanted me to do math? Yeah, okay. I’d do whatever she wanted as long as she kept touching me. And she seemed to realize that, because she took her hand away and said, “Do you want to keep doing math?” “I kind of have to. The course isn’t over.” “You got an eighty-two percent on your last quiz, and I seriously think you should go in and argue for a couple more points.
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