Me & Timothy Cooper

"Taylor Lawton, you will work with Timothy Cooper ..."

My head shot up from my desk into the eyes of the very boy I spent all my days thinking of, and my gut twisted. Me and Timothy Cooper? Work together? The twist in my gut became a stone.

Then he smiled, and the room became brighter than the noonday sun. "Guess you're stuck with me," he said.

Heaven help me, being stuck with Timothy Cooper wasn't such a bad thing. Yet I sat there my tongue cleaved to the roof of my mouth, my palms sweating.

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