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“I know.” He arched an eyebrow.
“Thank you.” Her chin dipped a little and he saw the fight in her eyes. She was digging deep to speak to him and he noticed her shaking even more. “For saving me this time… and last time.”
“Last time?”
“The mugger.” She shrugged. “I didn’t thank you properly that day.”
“It’s no big deal.”
She nodded and looked straight ahead. He heard her exhaling in relief as if she’d completed a laborious task and was patting herself on the back.
Jewel was more endearing than he’d given her credit for.
“Have you been here before?” Finn stared at the Mayan temple across from them.
Silence.
He glanced down and saw Jewel worrying her bottom lip. “Is that a no?”
“Yes,” she said, her eyes on the pyramid. “For a class trip. Most Belizean kids have to visit a Mayan site once in their lifetime.”
She was talking more freely, as if he were Joon Gi or one of the guys.
Another step.
Finn kept the momentum going. “My sister and I went to boring museums for class trips. Nothing like this.”
“You have a sister?”
“Had.” His jaw muscle jumped. He crouched to the ground to hide his face from her. “How about you? Got any siblings?”
Jewel joined him on the ground, her brown eyes lighting up. “Yeah, his name is Juney.”
“Juney?”
“It’s a Kriol term. It means Junior.”
“Ah.”
“He’s so smart,” Jewel gushed. “He’d top his class every year and he did it all on his own. His teachers swear he’s a prodigy.”
“Sounds like a cool kid.”
“He’s got a smart mouth, so he has a few problems getting along with people, but apart from that he’s pretty much perfect.”
Finn smirked at the explosion of words that had just poured from her ‘painfully shy’ mouth. “You sound very proud.”
She beamed.
Finn found himself spellbound, unable to look elsewhere.
She noticed him watching and ducked her head. “I’m boring you.”
“No, I’m enjoying myself.”
“Yeah right.”
“You calling me a liar?” Finn challenged.
