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"Psychic?" she repeated.

"Yeah," he said earnestly. He was so close now his nose was touching hers. The light contact sent her blood

racing. "Like for example, I know that in five seconds, you're going to kiss me."

Ariana's heart slammed into her rib cage over and over. "Oh, yeah?" she said playfully.

"Yeah."

Daniel would kill her if he knew what she was doing right now-what she was thinking. But she didn't care.

At that moment it didn't matter. All she wanted was to be with Thomas. To let herself go. To let him do

whatever he wanted.

"Four..." Thomas flashed his perfect, boyish grin.

"Not gonna happen," Ariana joked.

"Three ..."

"You're going to have to kiss me first."

"Two ..."

He shut his eyes.

"Uh-uh ..." she sang.

"One."

Ariana closed her eyes and waited for the kiss she knew was coming. Then her cell phone rang.

Automatically, her head shot up and she knocked skulls with Thomas. Hard.

"Sonofa-"

Thomas released her and fell back, hand to his forehead. "Sorry! I'm sorry," Ariana said, ignoring the pain as

she groped for her phone in her bag. When she finally found it, the display

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said that she had a new text message. Heart pounding, she quickly opened it.

Daniel: Can't get warm up here without u. Call and let me know ur ok.Ariana was crushed by a sudden wave

of nausea.

"Who's that?" Thomas asked, his face still contorted with pain.

"Nothing," Ariana said quickly. "No one."

She slung her legs over the side of the bed and got up to crack the window. Snow swirled outside, blanketing

the entire campus with a fresh coating of white. There were at least two feet of thick powder. Ariana had