“She has to agree to have me. It could take some time, but I’m confident I can trick her into it.”

“Where are you taking me?” he asked.“To Got Games for a pair of those trick handcuffs,” I said. “I’m not letting you get away so easy this time.”

“I was losing her, she wouldn’t listen to me, and I was about to fail my third quiz of the semester. Great.By the way, can you simplify 7x – 2(4x – 6)?I knew she could. She was already in Trig.What does that have to do with anything?Nothing. But I’m failing this quiz.She sighed.A Caster girlfriend had some perks.”

“That’s it,” she said, balling her hands in fists. “I’m not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor.”

“For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.”

“I know she’d get some crazy idea in her head that I’m bad for her. And that’s just not true. In fact, the longer I know her, the more time I spend with her, the more I believe I’m exactly what she needs in her life. She just doesn’t know it yet. But she will.”