This wasn’t the time or place for it, so I hid it away in a little drawer in the back of my mind,marked DEAL WITH LATER.

blown into my life like a hurricane, turned me upside down, challengedme at every turn. And, together, we sparked like lightning.

MY MOUTH OPENED.Way to go, Clare. Way to impress the mother of a prospective boyfriend. Moms love their boys to date psycho overprotective girls.

She’d probably slap me upside the head and say some variation of 'Hey, Future Clare, wtf?

Perry would disown me for wearing a Yankees sweatshirt, but he would never know, and I was too cold to care about team loyalty.

He was never one to care whether a person was popular or not. Exhibit A … me.

I hate procrastinating, so much so that I often do my homework on Friday so it won’t be hanging over my head all weekend long. The goodthing is, my (nonexistent) social life doesn’t usually interfere with this quirk of mine.

A sea of people in red crowded around it. I looked atMallory’s black hoodie and my gray sweater and realized we’d forgotten to wear the school colors. Oh, well. There was always my hair.

Kendra was on Gabriel like a predator on a slab of meat.