"What are you being so selfish for, Dave?" she demanded as she walked right past me into the flat."Sorry, Emma, who's being selfish. It strikes me tha... Diane was being selfish in the way she just announced that you two are going on this trip." What are you talking about? We've been planning to go down under ever since we met." No, Emerald, you were talking about it when I first met the pair of you. But I haven't heard either of you mention it for well over a year now, and in the meantime Diane. Cool.”Becky detected a hint of something in Josh’s voice, but she couldn’t be sure what it was. Regret perhaps? She had no idea what would cause that, but decided not to force that issue at this time. By now, Derek’s band had cranked up the music and the bar was filling up with more patrons.“Your friend’s really good,” she said to Josh.“Yeah, he’s always had a real talent for that.”“I can see. Wanna dance?”Josh nearly choked on the last of his drink at her question. Though their conversation. The class pleaded with him to know, but Tyler scowled, throwing the paper back on my desk and leaning back. “What’d you get?” I asked him, but he didn’t respond. I peered over my shoulder to see the 33 circled on his test. I felt kind of bad for him, but how did he expect to pass when he never studied and spent all his time getting high? “I could help you, you know. I’m free after school on Mondays, and you could come by on the weekend. I could tutor you-” “I don’t need you help!” he snapped.. The door was closed, so I pushed it open as quietly as I could. As I was walking in, my book bag caught on to the door handle and everything fell out. I could feel all eyes on me as I bent down to pick up my things. “Would you like some help?” I heard a voice ask me. I glanced up into a pair of blue-green eyes and a gorgeous smile. I could feel my knees quivering, the heat building up in my cheeks, and butterflies welling up in my stomach, as I slowly nodded my head. He grabbed my books from.