"I am?" I asked, moving away from the tight grasp that Stone's eyes had me under.

She walked around the table and grabbed my hand to pull me out of the lunch hall. Lana finally let go of my hand when we reached the girl's bathroom.

Her head bobbed as she searched the cubicles to make sure nobody was in. Once she was sure it was just us, she stood in front of me and questioned "Okay, Ella. What is going on?"

"What are you talking about?" I said, straightening out my black skirt.

"You and Stone." She elaborated in a duh tone "What is going with you two?"

Except he stayed over last night and we nearly kissed this morning, not much.

I felt bad for not telling her but I could not find the words. I could not even comprehend myself what had gone on between him and I.

Lana spoke again "You two dance around each other like wolves. I don't know if you two want to rip each other apart or rip each other’s clothes off."

"What kind of wolves have you seen that wear clothes?"

"Ella!" She said, exasperated.

I avoided the topic again "How are you and Brennan getting on?"

"Come on! You two are totally into each other!"

"Me?" I pointed to myself "Into Stone?"

"Yes. You!"

"I am not." I crossed my arms over my chest "Stone is also not interested in me."

She looked fed up "You need to let someone in eventually. I think you already have. You told him your real name. That has to mean something."

I did not think mentioning how my car broke down and I ended up at his place of work then he drove me home and then I slept on him would help my argument,

"You are just a romantic." I informed her before joking "Imagine if we did like each other. Our friend group would turn out to be like ABBA. Look how that turned out."

"So, you are telling me you have no feelings for Stone?"

A few seconds passed and I tightened the hold on myself “We have this weird chemistry…”

“No shit” Lana scoffed.

“It won’t last. It is temporary.” I argued as I felt my shoulders deflate “My experience with chemistry is that it fizzles out.”

Lana did not look like she believed me, but she did not ask any further.

We walked back through to the cafeteria and sat down in our seats. Brennan kissed Lana on the cheek before going back to sitting in silence while they ate their lunch.

I stole a quick look at the giant next to me.

Now thinking about it all, maybe I had let him past the walls I had built up around myself slightly.

"You are not tutoring him." He commanded.

"Are you stilling going on about that?" I narrowed my eyes at him "I’m tutoring him. End of story."

"Over my dead body."