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He was definitely not uncute.

He was taller than me. Blue eyes, like me. Dimples, not like me.

"So, I guess this means you're falling for me, huh?" he asked, grinning.
"Want to go to a movie or something?"

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?Say what?" I snapped.

He leaned against the balance beam, cocky and relaxed. "I wondered if
you wanted to go to the movies or something."

I looked at him. That wasn't all he'd said. And the rest of it, the part
about me falling for him, made me uneasy.

He was cute.

Better still, he was human.

See, if T. T. and I went to a ninety-minute movie, we could go for pizza
afterward. Or to McDonald's. Or whatever.

He wouldn't have to demorph back into a red-tailed hawk before the
two-hour deadline.

8 Going out with T. T. would be normal. Maybe even fun. No tension. No fear.

"Well?" he said.

"In your dreams," I said abruptly, wheeling and heading across the mats
to the locker room. He didn't try to stop me.

I shoved open the door.

BOOM!

It bounced off the cement wall.

The locker room was empty. Echoey.

Good. I wasn't in the mood to deal with people right now. I didn't like
the way I was feeling. I didn't like that I had reacted. I didn't like
the moment of hesitation, the moment when I considered the fact that I
was the only girl in school whose ... I guess "boyfriend" was . . . how
should I put it... a bird.

I felt anger bubbling up inside me. Mad at T. T., mad at Tobias. Mad at