The bell rang, ending English-Lit class. Mr. Harrison’s voice was lost in the scrape of chairs and the murmur of students packing up. Benjamin Damien watched as Nora stood and gathered her books. She moved with Daine, her friend, not looking back at him. He had watched the back of her head for the entire hour. He had seen nothing of the board, heard nothing of the lesson. His focus had been solely on her, on the straight line of her shoulders, on the way she tucked her hair behind her ear.Three days of silence. Three days of his texts sitting unread, of her avoiding his eyes in the hallway. It had felt like a physical weight pressing on his chest. He had replayed their last conversation a hundred times. In a chat three days ago, he had told her he was developing feelings for her. He had said he didn’t care if it was too soon. Her reply had been slow in coming, and then it stopped altogether.His friends, Marcus, Leo, and Sam, waited for him by the door. They didn’t say anything, just
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