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tell you losers about gambling?”
     
    “It doesn’t make mathematical sense to gamble,” Ian said in a mocking voice.  “But seriously, this time the numbers are in my favor.  C.J. Mitchell is the coolest high school guy in the city.  He wouldn’t give Angie a second glance.”  Angie balled up a piece of paper and lobed it at Ian’s head.
     
    “I heard he dated an Olsen twin,” Courtney said, trying to shift the conversation back to her. 
     
    Courtney liked to be the only source of information for the school.  She was starting to get visibly annoyed with interjections from other people, especially Rachel, who added, “I heard he dated Lindsay Lohan too.  You see, he only likes older women.” 
     
    Delia rolled her eyes.  If an Olsen twin and Lindsay Lohan were considered older women, what was she? Ancient?
     
    Delia sat at her desk and studied her lesson plans for the day when she felt someone staring at her.  She looked up at her students.  It wasn’t any of them.   They were looking at the door.  She followed their eyes to a familiar figure standing in her doorway.  It was a very familiar figure indeed. 
     
    It was Chase. Chase Donovan from the cruise. What in the world was he doing in her classroom and in a Saxon Arms uniform?
     
    He looked exactly the same except he was clean shaven and his curly hair had grown longer and now looked shaggy and a little unkempt.  He brushed it off his forehead, revealing those gorgeous dark blue eyes and sending a shiver down Delia’s spine.
     
    She was just about to ask him what he was doing in her classroom when he blurted, “I’m C.J.”
     
    Delia started sneezing.
     

Chapter 6
     
    Chase couldn’t believe his eyes.  He wanted to run up to her and kiss her but that would be inappropriate.  That would be very inappropriate considering she was now his math teacher.  Delia was still sneezing.  God, that was the cutest sneeze he had ever heard. Suddenly, he remembered where he was.  He was a junior at Saxon Arms, his fourth private school in a year and a half.  He had a reputation to keep up.  Chase swaggered to the back of the room, flopped down in his seat, and placed his baseball cap over his face.  He pretended he was sleeping as Delia tried to carry on with class.
     
    “Take out a sheet of paper,” she announced between sneezes. “Pop quiz.” All the students groaned simultaneously. Considering it was only the third week of school and they had just finished a unit, it was odd timing to be giving a pop quiz, but she couldn’t think of anything else to do.  She was too shocked to actually teach something and she was sneezing so much she had trouble breathing.
     
    Delia wrote two problems on the board that she knew would take them the entire period to figure out.  Then she sat at her desk and looked for her allergy medication.  Even though she knew it wouldn’t help, she felt she needed to take something.  She was starting to get a migraine as well.  While the class was intently working on the problems, she spied a glance at Chase or C.J. or whatever that lying bastard’s name was.  He was slouched in his chair with his head back, arms crossed, and a hat over his face as if he didn’t have a care in the world.  He shouldn’t be wearing a hat with the uniform. It was against dress code. And she thought she saw him chewing gum. That was against the rules too. Delia wanted to throw something at him.  How dare he come into her class like this?  After what they had been to each other. Then she realized something.  She was the teacher, she didn’t have to take this from him.  She could kick him out if she wanted to.
     
    Delia blew her nose then marched over to the back of the classroom.  She flicked the hat off his face and said, “What do you think you’re doing?  There’s a quiz.”  Chase/C.J. sat up and met Delia’s stare.   Her heart raced and tears burned behind her eyes as she looked into his all too