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shoulder when I see he rendered her unconscious.
    “What the heck, bro?!” I growl as I press my fingers to her throat making sure she still has a heartbeat. “Thank God,” I mutter when I feel the steady beat of her heart beneath my fingertips. My heart is running a hundred miles an hour as I continue to reprimand Bo.
    Jessie, one the girls from our class, crouches down beside us. I’d like to point out that Jessie is not one of the girls who fawn over us all the time. “Oh my God! Is she okay?”
    I want to say yes, but I’m not sure she is. “I hope so.”
    When she finally starts stirring, my heart starts beating faster than ever. Her eyes flutter open, revealing her sea blue eyes and I am sucked in. Heck, I am done for. Looking at me, you wouldn’t know it, but I’ve always been a sucker for the ‘love at first sight’ stuff. I am a goner before she even utters a word.
    I tried to keep my jealousy at bay when Bo kept flirting with her, but she made it bearable when responded to his ‘charm’, as Bo would call it, with a threat. Right off the bat, I notice this girl can hold her own. Heck, she just drew me in further with that.
    I am like a darn cow she is roping in, and I am loving every second of it.
     

 
    Chapter Three
    Cassie
    Bo doesn’t set me down until we are in the nurse’s office, and that was on the table. J stands by the door, blocking it, with his arms crossed like he thinks I’m going to make a run for it. I just might…
    Taking a good look at J, I notice he is as muscular as Bo. What are they on, steroids?
    Bo stands next to me, explaining to the nurse what happened. After she asks me question after question, I guess to make sure I’m not looney. She checks out my head and then proceeds to shine a light in my eyes.
    Finally, she gives me some more ice for the knot on the side of my head and instructs me to go home and lie down. I don’t mention to them I don’t have a car. I’d hate to know what Bo and J would do then. And I’m not riding the bus home. No way. I’d rather walk home. I have not ridden the bus a day in my life and I’m not going to start now.
    “Alright Cassie, let me call your parents and have them come get you.”
    “No!” All three heads whip in my direction. Well, four including, Jess. “I mean, they are at work so I don’t want to bother them,” I add quickly. What I really mean is that my dad is probably stoned out of his mind and my mother would brush it off like it was no big deal and then yell at me for it as soon as I got home because “I attracted attention to myself”. She is probably as coherent as my father right now to tell you the truth. She acts all high and mighty, but she is no better than him. “I’m fine, honestly.” The nurse purses her lips but doesn’t say anything.
    “We can take her home,” Bo speaks up from beside me.
    I look at the nurse, shaking my head. “No, no I’m fine.”
    “Cassie, I don’t think it’s a good idea for you to go home by yourself. I highly suggest letting someone drive you home.” She turns and looks at Bo. “Y’all don’t mind taking her home?”
    “No, ma’am. We’d be happy to.”
    She smiles sweetly. “That’s sweet of y’all boys.”
    Jess gives me an apologetic look. “Girl, I would take you home in a heartbeat, but I have some get together with my parents.”
    “It’s okay. See you tomorrow?”
    “Bye, Yankee.”
    Ignoring my attempt to walk on my own, Bo sweeps me up in his arms again like I weigh nothing. “Why do you insist on carrying me? I have two perfectly good legs!”
    “Trust me, I know how perfect your legs are,” he smirks.
    I feel my face getting hot. Did he really just flirt with me?
    This time Bo doesn’t set me down until I am in the passenger seat of his truck. Even if he had set me down on the ground he would’ve had to lift me up in the truck because it is lifted too high for me to climb. J climbs in the back seat of the candy apple red Dodge Ram 1500