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adly, we don’t get to stay in there.

I pitch for it quite hard. I suggest a cupboard picnic: I’m pretty sure I have a few bits of broken chocolate bar at the bottom of my satchel and, if I rummage hard enough, half a cheese and onion sandwich we can split in two.

Basically anything that will prolong my time in what now magically appear to be incredibly romantic surroundings.

Unfortunately, Nick has other ideas.

“Isn’t there somewhere you’re supposed to be?”

“The casting?” I poke my head out of the cupboard and frown. The lights of the corridor upstairs have all been turned off. “I think everyone’s gone now. It doesn’t matter. I wasn’t that bothered anyway.”

I lean up to kiss him again.

“Nope,” Nick laughs, kissing the end of my nose instead. “Not Brink. Somewhere else.”

Sugar cookies. Why does he always remember everything I say? If I didn’t know better, I’d think Nick had my life itinerary bullet pointed and stashed away in his pocket somewhere.

Which is totally the kind of thing I’d do, but I didn’t think it was his style.

“Oh,” I say airily, waving a hand, “I guess I’ve missed it by now. Never mind.”

Nick lifts an eyebrow. “I’m not sure Nat would see it like that.”

Nat.

I’m suddenly flooded with a wave of shame and guilt so intense I almost fall over. Because I’m going to be honest: if there was another bright side to being stuck in a cupboard, it was that I couldn’t be anywhere else.

Somewhere even worse.

I look at the floor. “I suppose I did promise,” I admit in a small voice. “And she is my best friend.”

Only friend.

Now is probably not the time to make that clarification.

“Exactly.” Nick grins and leans towards me. “It’ll be fun. No biggy.”

We all know what he means when he says that, which is: exactly the opposite. I try to look cross, which is almost impossible when you’re being kissed.

“Next you’ll be telling me to break a leg,” I mutter grumpily.

Nick laughs and grabs my hand. “Come on, Table Girl. There’s a train to your school in fifteen minutes. I’ll walk you to the station.”