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“Apart from Luc,” I grin. “He was shorter than her right up until she left. He had a growth spurt just before she went.”

“Thank fuck for that,” Luc winces. “I was really worried that I was going to be shorter than Ever forever.”

“We know,” I reply. “Ever knew? That’s why she was as happy as the rest of us when you grew taller than her.”

Luc’s cheeks tinge slightly pink, “Someone told me that boys were always taller than girls and that girls didn’t like boys who were shorter than them. I was worried that she wouldn’t like me.”

The lightbulb turns on for all of us.

“Oh! You know that makes a lot more sense,” Trick says with a smile.

“Dude, you know that Ever never gave a shit about things like that? She would have still liked you no matter what,” I point out.

He nods but adds, “I’m still glad I’m taller than her.”

“If she’s still tiny, then you will tower over her,” Jensen teases, “don’t worry.”

“Fuck off,” Luc replies with an amused smirk.

Chapter Fifteen

Jensen

Finally, we arrive at school. I don’t think I have ever been this happy to get to school.

“Guys, the bus isn’t back yet, we are going to have to wait.” Cash says, the impatience and disappointment easily identifiable in his tone.

“Seriously?” I ask, my leg once again bouncing and moving the whole car with it.

Trick grimaces, “Yeah. We can’t really risk it.”

All of us groan. For fuck sake, this is like torture, except they don’t want any information. If they did, I would scream it from the fucking rooftops if it meant that I didn’t have to wait in this car for a moment longer and could go and find Ever.

I don’t know who ‘they’ are.

All of us are tensely waiting for the bus to arrive, and apparently, none of us feel like talking because the car is silent. We don’t even have any music gone. I am staring at the clock, watching the minutes go by so fucking slowly.

“Is your clock broken?” I suddenly ask in the silence, “Is it going slower on purpose? Does it know?”

“Know what?” Trick asks as he turns to look at me, raising his eyebrow.

“That we are desperately waiting for a bus to come so that we can see Ever, who we have been looking for, so it’s deliberately making time go slower?” I explain.

“I really hope that you aren’t serious right now because I can’t tell, and that worries me,” Cash replies with a frown.

I smile but don’t tell him that I’m only joking because I’m a dick, and I like messing with his head.

The car falls silent again, but this time, it only lasts for a few minutes instead of what felt like hours before.

“Alright, I have had enough. It is close enough to when the bus should be getting back. Everyone can just assume that we took our car to the game and drove home,” Cash exclaims.

“That’s a good point, actually,” Trick agrees. “Text our guy and see if he knows where she is right now?”

“Already on it,” Cash replies.

“Thank fuck,” Riot says, sighing heavily like he had been holding his breath this entire time.

“He said that she should be by her locker, so in the main hall,” Cash replies.

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