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I glancein the direction of the cheer squad, easily picking out Krissi from the lineup. I'm about to head over to go see her when someone clears their throat behind me.
"Have you been avoiding the palace, Jeremy?" a familiar voice asks.
"Kayra." I turn in time to be enveloped in a quick hug from the Shifter Queen. I glance around to make sure no one is paying much attention. Not that many of the Obscure Academy students around probably know who she is, but that's a good thing for her, it means she gets to just be herself without any worries about what people might think. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to support the Sabre Woods rugby team, and to see you. Now the team has lost, I'll have to say the second one was more my reasoning," she jokes.
I let out a low chuckle. "You'd have thought they'd play better with their Queen cheering them on."
Kayra shakes her head in amusement. "I don't think they particularly care, not with the cheerleaders you've got over there. I saw you eyeing them up."
"I'm not eyeing the cheerleaders up," I respond quickly.
"Ah, I see, then you're interested in just one of them."
I start to compose an argument in my head, but then remember who I'm talking to. "My flatmate, Krissi."
She raises an eyebrow. "Does she know that you're staring at her like you don't want there to be a field between the two of you?"
"I think so."
"Uh-oh, that doesn't sound good."
I sigh. "I think she's scared of being in a relationship."
"Then you're doing something to scare her," Kayra admonishes me. "Tell me everything."
"Everything? Don't you need to get back to running the country?"
"You and I both know I reformed that so that other people do it."
"You're not making yourself sound like a good queen," I tease.
She shrugs. "I imagine there are plenty of people who don't think I am, but I've done more for the shifter community in the past year than my mother did through her entire reign."
She isn't wrong. Her mother seemed more concerned with avoiding announcing Kayra as her heir, and trying to marry her off. I'm still not completely sure why the old queen set her sights on me as her potential son-in-law, but I'm grateful that Kayra never fell for it.
"Anyway, spill. Everything. Does she know you're interested?"
"I hope so, we kissed."
"Sober?"
"What do you take me for?"
"A twenty-year-old tiger shifter," she responds dryly.
"Yes, we were sober."
"Okay, and who started the kiss?" Kayra asks.
I rub the back of my neck nervously. "I'm not sure."
"Interesting."
"Do people normally keep track of that kind of thing? Do you know who started your first kiss with Magnus?" Is this the kind of thing girls remember? Did I ruin that for Krissi?
"He did."
