I love the big goofball, but I just wish for once he’d pay a little more attention to me.”I grabbed a cup from the cupboard and quickly filled it ...ith water as Regina stood in silence beside me.“If he’d just look at me the way you just did,” Regina remarked, “then I’d be the happiest woman in Bradford Street.”I downed the cup of water and went for a refill as Regina stood stoic beside me.“Do I make you nervous?” she asked.“A little,” I replied as I filled the cup full of water from the. Phew! I pulled me nothing and looked around to find. Place a free Back I saw an empty seat and I walked past the other students back to the table at the back of the room, where I then took place. I looked a bit around me and saw people chatting with each other, it was mainly girls I saw sitting. Completely in the other corner of the room I saw a girl like me who, it seemed, no one knew. It was a pretty blond girl and I walked over to her, because the teacher was busy with other things. "Hey,. You were right. I handled things poorly. I’d really like to make amends now.”“Well, I guess all this has been a good start,” Bella said, squeezing Jack’s hand. “Even if it hurts, it’s still better than it was.”Jack folded her arms around Bella. “That’s usually the way healing works.”The dark-haired witch laid her cheek against Jack’s shoulder and tried to let go of the pain and frustration. It felt good to be held like this again, and Jack’s bare skin was smooth and warm. She felt a tear spill. . and there was no denying that awful truth!God, she had never realized such debasement and shame could exist; she should fall on her knees before Ken and confess everything! But to do that would be to do nothing more than to torment his own agonized conscience! No... ! To hide it... bury it within herself... smother its lewd, ugly head forever, was the only answer!She would pretend and say nothing regarding either of them, she decided, quickly scurrying from the bed and hustling toward the.