Melanie smelled him before she heard him. Her sense of smell was becoming stronger, especially as it pertained to Brad. Maybe it was her body’s way of warning her that he was nearby and she needed to make a run for it.
“Hey Mel!” Brad called out to her.
He was way too close for her to pretend not to have heard him and she couldn’t just run away from her open locker. Curse the goddess for making it so that she had a locker close to the high school’s main double doors.
Melanie stiffened as she felt him approaching. Trying to get her erratic breathing under control, she turned to look at him with as neutral an expression as she could muster. She would not think about his kisses. She would not think about what she'd dreamed about last night...
“Hey,” Brad repeated as he came to stand n
