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The air in Camilla’s room hung thick with teenage tension. Alex, slouched and defiant, faced the girl he’d despised since sixth grade. Years of rivalry had masked a simmering attraction neither dared acknowledge. When Camilla probed, ‘Why do you hate him so much? He’s fine,’ Alex’s composure cracked. He launched into a breathless tirade about his ‘annoying’ brown eyes, that irritating dimpled smile, and the vanilla scent that clung to him. ‘If he didn’t yap so much, maybe I’d listen,’ he scoffed, trying to sound disgusted. Camilla chuckled, cutting him off. ‘The fact you have a crush on him?’ Alex’s eyes widened. ‘I do not! WTF!’ he protested, though his blush betrayed him. ‘Says the girl who knows everything about him,’ she teased.