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Between Us No Escape

The gym lights died at exactly 9:03 PM, and the only two people left inside were the last two on campus who should ever be alone together. Damien Reyes — brown-eyed, Nike-clad, insufferably confident — has been circling Selene Voss like she is a finish line he intends to cross. She has been pretending he does not exist for six weeks, and tonight, with a jammed exit and a dying phone between them, that pretense just ran out of runway.