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Elias Strong.
The name slams into me.
Oh my God.
“You don’t?” I manage to say.
She raises her hand, showing me her wedding ring. “And anyway, I’m here to learn, not to ogle.”
But that doesn’t meanIcan stop ogling.
Elias Strong, the math teacher.
“Yeah,” I mutter under my breath. “Me too.”
But I can’t stop myself from watching him as he turns and then walks out of view. I study his back, imagining what it would be like to jump at him, to sink my hands into his muscles, to feel the support, the security.
I texted him not that long ago.
We’ve spoken…sort of.
So much for ending my obsession.
“Do you mind if we sit together?” Izzy asks.
I almost tell her no, almost scream it. It’s exactly what Jess said to me on the first day of high school.
I was so happy that my cheeks hurt from smiling, from the relief of finding a friend. I was so innocent.
But I can’t avoid people forever. I’ll just have to be careful, watch for signs.
“Sure,” I say. “That would be great.”
Izzy grins. “Okay, phew. Thank you. I was beginning to feel like the girl nobody wanted to dance with, you know?”
“I get it,” I say, nodding.
As we wait, I wonder how I’m going to forget about him now.
The man.
Elias.
Myman.
How can I let him go when I know he’s so near?
CHAPTER4
Elias
I sit in the cafeteria, cutting into my steak.
“Did you bring your own cutlery?” Mary says in a joking tone.
I do my best to smirk in return, though it’s getting difficult to interact onanylevel…withanybody when my thoughts are so flooded with the woman from the bus.
“I brought my ownsteak,” I tell her.
