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this
stuff.”
    “This ‘stuff'?’ Wow, you're a real charmer today
aren't you?” This guy was really one of a kind, in the most unfortunate sense
of the word.
    “Well, I'm showing interest in
you, aren't I? Come on, you know I didn't mean it like that.”
    “Yeah, lucky me. Are you stalking me right now? ‘ Cause I'm pretty sure the balls and sticks aren't found on
this side of campus.” I almost smiled when I said it, but I caught myself. No
need to encourage him with friendliness.
    My books were safely back in my bag, which was now slung over my shoulder, so
that was my cue to start to walk away from him. He followed beside me quickly,
in an annoyingly persistent way.
    What
was with this guy?   H e couldn't have actually been interested in me. I was nothing like him.
But wow, he had a real hard-on for me.
    “Will you hang out with me
sometime?” he stumbled over his words as he tried to keep pace with me.
    I stopped then and turned to look
at him. “Hang out with you? Why would I want to do that?”
    I turned again, and headed away
from him. I couldn't think for the life of me why he was bothering me, out of
all the girls on campus. I wasn't his type at all. I didn't know what he saw in
me, or whether this was just a game of his to get me in the sack. My luck, I
was some bet he had to win against his buddies. Oh man, I better not be a
bet . Either way, I wasn't impressed at all by his behavior, and wondered
what I could do to get him off my back. I had bigger issues to deal with than
this guy.
    “Come on, Natalie, just give me a
chance. I'm really not a bad guy. Yes, I have a reputation, and I always like
to have a good time in one way or another, but it's all in good fun.”
    “I bet it is.”
    “I'm not out to hurt you,
Natalie.”
    I ignored him. What did he expect
me to say? Of course, he was going to say something like that. Did I really
expect him to tell me he was going to stampede all over my heart? This guy was
a real rich one.
    I was headed to the library, and
was surprised to find he stayed with me the whole way. He may be a glutton for
punishment after all.
    “Please, Natalie?”
    “Why do you want me to hang out
with you?”
    “I like you, and I think if you
lightened up, you would actually have some fun with me.”
    I snorted, “Jet, please, I don't
need to lighten up. I'm really not interested. It's not even so much you. I'm
not interested in anyone right now.”
    “That's the best news I have
heard all day, and here I thought it was just me you hated.”
    “Oh, well then, I'm glad to
brighten your day.”
    We arrived at the library, and I
thought with no small amount of amusement, that there was no way a guy like Jet
would be caught dead in a library where souls arrived to study. He was just a
stupid jock; no real depth going on inside him, and I wouldn't be caught dating
him, either. What the hell would the two of us talk about? That's why he
couldn't be genuinely interested in me; it just didn't make sense for us to
start dating.
    “What do you say, Natalie, hang
out with me sometime?”
    I was in a hurry to get in the
library to study, so I pushed through the doors, and yelled over my shoulder,
“Maybe ... sometime. Bye.”
    “Well I'll take that. It's good
enough for me.”
    I didn't look back as I heard the
door close behind me, and thanked God he hadn't followed me in. I looked around
for a table in a quiet area. When I found one way in the back of the library, I
settled there and got down to studying. I started taking my books back out of
the bag, and lined them up on the table. Here I go again , I thought. I
refused to think about that imbecile; all I wanted was to focus on my studies
for the time being.

 
    Chapter Four
    Jet

 
    I headed into the university's
state-of-the-art training centre, and strode to the locker rooms. There were a
lot of guys training that afternoon, and the air in the room was electric with
spirit and energy. Many guys were preparing for their own