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Lissy Longbottom 
Cale blinked in surprise. "Oh...she told you?" he said in shock. Well, that was very...noble of Evolette. How unlike her!
"Well, the only reason I was holding her hand and stuff was cause I saw you two holding hands," he explained with a sigh. He drew his knees close to his chest and rested his forehead on them, exhaling deeply to get his stress out. "This whole thing has just been a back and forth battle of who is hurting who more and I don't like it one bit," he mumbled.
At her last little speech, he looked up again and pushed his hair out of his eyes. "Exactly how I feel...I couldn't stand to be away from you. If I knew you were off in America, I don't know how I could last here. I'd probably go back home and get taught by my mum and Aaron--Ezra would be super pleased, I'll bet. And I'd be WAY jealous of Emma spending more time with you than I could."
"She did," Anna said, skipping the part about Evolette's little story about herself and Terry. Evolette had asked Anna not to mention anything about it, and Anna knew that Cale would want Anna to keep her promise not to retell Evolette's story to anyone. "Of course, I had already been thinking about leaving, and to be honest, it really scared me---a LOT. I knew in my heart that I didn't want to leave, but I was afraid I'd gotten myself too far into something I couldn't back out of. I was a little nervous to tell my father that all his hard work to get me transferred was all for nothin, but as it turns out, he was just really glad I decided to stay and didn't really care what it had cost him in the longrun."
When Cale rested his forehead on his knees, Anna scooted closer to him and put her arm around him. "The only reason I was holding his hand is because I was honestly, literally falling apart at that moment. I wasn't too sure that I couldn't even stand up without getting dizzy and falling over," Anna explained. "That was the day after our break-up, and my whole world had spun out of control." When Cale didn't automatically look up or say anything else, Anna continued talking. "We don't have to fight anywhere. Neither of us want to, and it's not neccesary at all," she reassured.
"You don't have to worry about having to leave to get home-schooled," she reassured. "I hate to break it to you, but you're stuck with me now, babe. I'm here to stay...well, until graduation that is."