I tuck my hair tendril behind my ear and enter the empty auditorium. Only that it isn’t empty.
Few members of the council were already here, checking through the things and I spot Josh, Brit, and Nate. NATE?
He is standing with Collins, cross checking some papers and I freeze momentarily, drinking in his view. He is in too dark a blue suit, the one that’s almost black if you don’t see it attentively. Which I am.
The white linen shirt has it’s first two buttons open and his thin, black tie hangs loosely around his neck.
Nathaniel Alderidge looked ah-mazing. And I had known it since the first time I set my eyes upon him.
But I had to remember, Nate is the first person on the list of to-avoid people.
I take a few tentative steps towards them, barely controlling my thumping heart a
