The next day Lily and I were cutting across the courtyard after our morning lecture, her going on about something our economics lecturer had said while I half listened and dug through my bag looking for my lip balm.

"I'm telling you Elise he said it with his whole chest," Lily was saying. "No shame whatsoever—"

"Lily I hear you," I murmured, my fingers finally closing around the lip balm at the bottom of my bag.

I looked up to say something back to her and that's when I saw them.

Carter was standing by the benches near the science block, a tanned skin girl stood close to him, pretty,...