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pretending he liked her would provide a good excuse to get close to her while keep everyone away as she developed her abilities since girls and sex rate high on teenage boys favorite past time.
    The crowd of football players surrounding Tyler walked away and he smiled at her. This would be the best time to determine if he could be her Watcher.
    “Dillon, do you mind talking later?” she asked, hoping to get rid of him. “I have to go study for a test.”
    “No, not at all.”
    He gave her a peck on the cheek and headed down the hall. Once he turned the corner, she waved to Tyler and motioned for him to join her. A cat-ate-a-canary grin spread across his face as he strolled over toward her.
    “You wanted to see me,” he asked with a seductive voice, oozing with sex as he slid his arm along her lower back.
    The trophy case glass cracked and large pieces of glass shards fell to the ground. She jumped away from Tyler as her heart pounded against her chest. Oh, she hoped this was a good idea.
    Tyler pointed to the boy standing next to the trophy case. “You better run before the principal sees what you did.”
    He thought the boy had broken the glass. She glanced at the other students standing in the hall. It seemed everyone else assumed the same as him. Oh, thank heaven. Lexi wiped a bead of sweat from her neck. No one realized she had done it.
    “So what did you want to talk about?” Tyler turned back toward her. “Are you reconsidering your dating policy?”
    Lexi rolled her eyes after listening to his thoughts. She better question him where it would be hard for him to hit on her just in case she was wrong about him being her Watcher. “I’ll tell you after we eat lunch. I’m starved.”
    Without waiting for him to respond, she rushed toward the cafeteria, flung open the large double doors and headed toward a line waiting to order. Tyler grabbed her wrist and stopped her from moving any farther.
    “Why are we stopping?” she asked, a hint of concern in her voice.
    “I wanted to wait until the line dies down.” Tyler motioned toward a group of students holding trays in their hands. “Come on, let’s stand over here.”
    He escorted her to the far side of the room away from everyone and pressed her back against the brick wall. She wiped the sweat off her forehead as the large window a few feet from her shook.
    Oh, this wasn’t going as she hoped. She needed to question him before her telekinesis got out of hand, but what should she ask him? She pondered over possible questions and settled on the one he couldn’t avoid answering that would quickly prove whether or not he could be her Watcher.
    “Why do you always watch me?” she asked. “You’ve been watching me ever since I started school here.”
    Tyler took a step closer to her and gazed into her eyes. “’Cause I like you and have since the summer before you started school.”
    “How could you have liked me before then? I was living in California and homeschooled. My parents didn’t let me talk to anyone. So I don’t see how we could’ve possibly met before I started school.”
    “You don’t remember hanging out with me during the summer while my father prepared your parents legal documents?”
    She shook her head. She couldn’t recall ever meeting him before starting Brookings high, but apparently they knew each other the summer her parents had died. That meant he also knew her parents.
    Could he be her Watcher? Only her Watcher would’ve known her parents since they wouldn’t let her talk to anyone except for Irene.
    “So you don’t remember sitting with me while my father helped the DA with your parents’ case?” Tyler asked.
    She started to shake her head and stopped. Wait a second. What did he say? He said his father helped the DA, like in the district attorney? Her jaw tightened and every table in the room shook. “My parents didn’t die in a car accident?”
    One of his eyebrows lifted. “A car accident?”
    “Irene told me