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31. Snatched from a 'safe' place

"Do you have a date to the dance?" Riley shifted his weight from one foot to the other.

"Are you asking me to the dance?" Celia stuffed a textbook in her locker. She had to keep her cool. Can't have her slight crush on him show.

"Uh Yes, but it's okay if you don't want to go with me, I mean why would you wanna be seen with Humpty Dumpty, I—"

"Riley." She turned to him staring at his sneakers. "Don't."

He sighed. 'I understand. I'll see you around?"

She gathered all her courage to make eye contact with him. "I don't have a date to the dance, Riley."

The reddish tint of his ears and nose didn't go unnoticed to her while he fiddled with his bag strap. "Is that a yes?"

"Do you want it to be?"

"Yes."

"Then yes." She smiled through the pain of suppressing a full-blown smile. "I'll go with you."

Shock registered on his face for a while but he quickly recovered with a beam. "Awesome, I'll see you
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