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“They call me ‘binding thirteen’?” I shook my head. “Why? I don’t get it.”
“It’s not what they call you,” he corrected. “It’s what they want to do with you.”
“What?”
“You’re number thirteen.” He laughed. “And they want to bind with you.” He turned to waggle his brows at me. “Scrum style.”
“That is…so fucking creepy,” I grumbled, shuddering. “Put your eyes on the road!”
“One hundred percent,” Gibsie laughed, turning his attention back to the windscreen. “Claire told me about it last year. Said she overheard a bunch of sixth years talking about something called ‘Operation Binding Thirteen’ in the bathroom.”
“Jesus Christ,” I growled.
“Right around the time you started tapping Bella,” he filled in. “Do the maths.”
I didn’t have to.
I had already figured it out.
“Oh, for fuck’s sake,” I groaned.
“Yep,” Gibsie agreed with a grimace. “Be glad you got out of that, Johnny. Be very fucking glad.”
I was. More than words could express.
“What am I going to do, Gibs?”
“About Shannon?”
I nodded glumly.
“Give in,” he answered without hesitation.
“I can’t,” I croaked out.
“You can,” he assured me. “You’re just scared.”
Yeah, I was scared. I was fucking terrified of my feelings for her.
“I don’t even feel like I have a choice anymore,” I confessed. “I am losing my bleeding mind, Gibs.”
“Nah, your mind’s still there,” Gibsie chuckled, patting my shoulder. “It’s your heart you’re losing, lad.”
“Fuck,” I choked out, biting down on my lip as sheer terror seized my chest.
“Yeppers,” he agreed. “Terribly inconvenient, isn’t it?”
“I’ll fucking say,” I mumbled.
56Loaded Threats
JOHNNY
She didn’t come back to school on Thursday. I knew this because I watched out for her in the hallways between all my classes. She never showed. It didn’t sit well with me, knowing there was a very big possibility Shannon was ditching school because of what happened in the lunch hall.
It didn’t sit well with me because I knew it was my fault.
I couldn’t concentrate for shit all day. Every single lesson, word, and command went clear over my head because I’d left my head with her.
