An Interesting Bunch

Jacob's friends really were an interesting bunch. Addison wouldn't mind hanging out with them more and getting to know them better at all…if she wasn't mortified beyond redemption in front of him and hanging out with them after he wasn't letting her take advantage of his kindness anymore wouldn't work. 

Becca somewhat abruptly changed the subject. "So, how'd you meet Jacob? All I know was that it was in high school."

"It was rather anticlimactic, really. He didn't have a project partner and I had been out sick so the teacher tossed us together since we were the only people left," Addison told her with a shrug. 

She hadn't given the quiet boy who always read mystery novels before class started much thought before then. But he ended up being so efficient that they got the project done days before any of their classmates so he went back to reading.