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problems hundreds of generations later.
    "You don't wanna know how special you are," Kevyn whispered, leaning closer so his
breath brushed against her cheek.
    Sophie stifled a whimper. It was the story of her life. She had to get a guy silly drunk for
him to show some interest in her. Too bad he made her feel so good just by staring into her eyes.
Of course, he looked sort of cross-eyed right now.
    "It's a bunch of trouble, being special. Different."
    "In grade school, they called people like us freaks," Sophie muttered.
    "Not freaks. Magic." Kevyn smiled crookedly and nodded. "Real magic. And being
magic is a pain in the keister. You don't know how lucky you are, being a real girl. Wish I could
be." He frowned, shook his head, and sat up a little straighter. "I mean, real and not magic. Not a
girl. Wouldn't have any fun with you if I was girl. Because I'm glad you're a girl. Want you to be
my girl. Bet you'd be warm and soft and cuddly and I bet you'd taste like everything I like
best."
    "Taste?"
    Who the heck cared if he was drunk and didn't know what he was saying? She liked the
way his words made her feel. Now, if she could just manage to keep him in this fuzzy,
semi-conscious state all the time, they would be perfectly happy together. And anyway, it wasn't like
she'd go broke keeping him sloshed on diet cherry cola. Two six-packs a day wasn't going to
drain her bank account.
    "Taste," Kevyn whispered, and leaned so close she could feel his breath on her parted
lips. "Like, kissing. Really good kissing. Magic kissing." He sighed and sank back against his
side of the booth.
    Sophie muffled a whimper.
    "Is magic real, Kevyn?" she whispered, in a desperate bid to steer the conversation
elsewhere before she melted into an embarrassing puddle right there in public.
    "Really real. And a pain in the keister." A sound that could have been a giggle bubbled
out of him. How could something so deep and melodious be a giggle? "But you're the kind of
magic a guy could get addicted to."
    "Yeah, right," she muttered, voicing the sour ache from years of being chosen last in
gym class, and never even considered for date night at college.
    "Right. Really." Kevyn nodded, his head wobbling up and down like a bobble-head toy.
"You're so magic, you make my ears tingle."
    "That's original." She laughed.
    "No, honest." He tugged his thick, glossy black curls behind his ears and grabbed hold
of her hand. "Feel. You can feel the magic buzzing in my skin. Honest."
    He guided her fingertips over the elegant curve and up to the point and then down the
front of his ear. Sophie forgot how to breathe.
    He was right. Something vibrated, a warm tingling like carbonation under the skin of his
ear. It transferred into her fingertips and into her bloodstream and sent a giddy, breathless
sensation through her body.
    She felt suddenly exposed, as if they had been caught petting in the front seat by the
campus police, with their underwear strung on the rearview mirror for the whole world to see.
Not that she had ever been in that sort of position, and she loathed girls who were so horny they
didn't have the sense to find some place private. Who wanted to make out in a goldfish bowl,
anyway?
    That was beside the point.
    What was the point? She couldn't quite be sure. Because Kevyn held her hand against
his ear and looked into her eyes and she felt as if something deep and warm and intimate linked
them together. Sophie was afraid to move, afraid almost to breathe, that she might destroy this
fragile thing she couldn't fully comprehend, but sensed she needed as desperately as air and
light.
    "Nice, huh?" Kevyn whispered. He grinned when she could only nod. It took all her
concentration just to blink. "Let me?"
    "Huh?" Her face burned. That fragile connection between them gave her a feeling that
he had asked for something intimate and maybe even naughty. If only she could break through
the hormonal overdose that flooded her mind, she might understand.
    "I showed you