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gone again in a week and a new student will take my place. You hardly know me, anyway.”
    “That doesn’t matter. Do you believe in love at first sight?”
    I thought about it. I guessed I did, but it wasn’t something that happened to someone like me. It was the fabric of dreams.
    “I guess I would if it ever happened to me. Do you?”
    He nodded. “You know how it is when you look for someone, and every face you see, even if it is beautiful, is not the right one? Say you’re waiting for someone at the airport. A lot of people arrive, but none of them is the right one. Until the person you expected comes through the door, and then you can relax.”
    I nodded.
    “Well, that’s how it feels with you.”
    I shook my head. “You can’t tell me this is love at first sight. You don’t even know me.” The alcohol huddled around my brain like a fog, and I was struggling to process what he was saying. It was really sweet but I was unsure. Everything was slightly off its axis.
    “That’s why it’s called ‘at first sight’,” he said but he wasn’t mocking me.
    I distanced myself from George, not because I wasn’t attracted to him, but because I didn’t know what I was feeling.
    Toward the end of the night, when we were about to leave, George took my hand. My three friends walked ahead of me.
    “I don’t know what to make of you,” I said, honestly. Alcohol did that to me. “You’re amazing and it’s so nice being with you. But there’s something about you…” my sentence trailed off because I struggled to form the rest of it. But George didn’t intend on letting me finish. He pulled into me again. The kiss was electric, just like before, and my body melted into his. If he took away right now, I wasn’t sure if I would say no.
    I pulled away, breaking the kiss again.
    “You’re right about me,” he said, looking down at his hands. “And you’re right about not knowing you. Sometimes you need to know more about someone. There’s a side of me not a lot of people know. Do you believe in magic?”
    If what had happened between us tonight was magic, then yes, I definitely believed in it. I nodded.
    He looked around the room, anywhere but at me. Until now he’d been open, always making eye contact. It was strange seeing him closed off. He looked around and found a napkin. On it he scribbled something and pushed it into my hands.
    “If you’re still interested after this…” his sentence didn’t finish. “I’ll understand though.” He let my hand go, and I walked away. My friends waited at the door. I crumpled the napkin in my hand and kept it in a tight ball until I locked my bedroom door.
    When I opened it up, smoothing out the creases, the words jumped out at me.
    “You’re like an angel that fell from the sky, and I’m cursed to live with two faces. If you can fall in love with the one, maybe you can find the grace to accept the other. Fairy tales aren’t always just fairy tales. I’m a werewolf.”
     
    Chapter 2
    I woke up unable to move. My muscles were so stiff I could have been made out of concrete. My head thundered with a hangover and the sunlight that fell in through the window hurt my eyes. I groaned and rolled out of bed.
    “You look like hell,” Ella said to me when I walked into the kitchen. She was making a greasy breakfast.
    “That looks amazing,” I said. Grease was just what my stomach needed.
    “How’s your head?’ I asked her.
    “Pounding,” she answered. “But I think I drank less than you. I didn’t have blue eyes to get lost in.”
    I rolled my eyes.
    “So, are you going to follow this one through?” she asked.
    “No.” I thought back to the napkin that I’d shoved into the waste basket. “He’s childish and ridiculous. Who needs man like that?”
    “Who needs a man like what?” Ashleigh asked, shuffling into the room. She groaned when she lowered herself onto a chair. “I think I’m going to die.”
    “Anna thinks George is just a child. But