Brutus POV

The next morning I woke up happy, even though we had to take our finals today. I got dressed and headed down the hall to see what classroom I was in. I had my Biology midterm in Cinna's room. I wonder if Enobaria will be there too. They always mix us up. We begin our midterms at 8:30 and we finish at 10:30. We get an hour of break and then we have lunch. After that, we have our talent classes as usual. I walked into the room and take out three #2 pencils and an eraser. I saw Enobaria come in and I motioned for her to sit down next to me. She sat down and I pecked her on the cheek.

"Good morning, Baria," I said to her.

She blushed. "Morning, baby." The way she called me 'baby' sent a rush of affection through my body. I've been called baby many times before by many girls, but with Enobaria it just sounded so right for some reason. "Are we going to tell our friends?"

"Only if you want to," I told her.

"I want to," she said. "I don't like keeping secrets from them."

"If you're happy," I said. "Then I'm happy."

Then our proctor, Wiress, came in and gave us our tests. "You have two hours and no talking." Two hours later, our time was up and we had free time.

"I'd so much rather spend time with you," I told her. "But I promised Cato that I would help him study for his final."

"Okay," she said. "I'll see you soon."

"You sure you're okay with me going?" I asked her.

"Baby," she said. "It's fine. I don't want you to stop spending time with your friends because of me. Go."

"I love you," I said to her while kissing her on the lips.

"Go," she said to me. I walked away and went to the cafeteria. I was kind of relieved that Enobaria let me hand out with my friends. She didn't try to change me, she accepted me for who I was.

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I went to the library and sat next to Cato. He needed help on his Science paper because he needed extra credit. He was talking to me the whole time, but I was distracted the entire time. Cato put down his pencil and looked at me. "Brutus, what's going on?"

"Okay," I said. I sighed and prepared to confess."I'm going out with Enobaria.

"What?" he asked. Lord help me. "You're actually going out with her?"

"Yeah," I replied. "And? What's wrong with that?"

"Nothing, I'm just impressed," he said. "I would've gotten into her pants before you, but I'm with Clove. How long until she'll agree to sleep with you?"

"I'm not planning on getting into her pants," I said to Cato.

"Then why are you dating her, then?" he asked.

"Because I actually like like her," I told him before turning away and blushing.

"Wow," said Cato. "She's changing you, man."

"She is not!" I snapped at him while getting up from my chair. "She actually accepted me for who I am!" I sat back down and calmed myself down. ]

Cato stared at me in shock. "You must really like her."

"She drives me nuts, in a good way," I said, looking up thinking about my beautiful Enobaria.

"What's Cashmere gonna do when she finds out?" asked Cato.

"She won't find out because I was planning on telling you guys at lunch and I don't care if she gets mad. She can't tell me what to do," I said.

"Then why are you so distracted?" asked Cato.

"I was thinking about how to ask Baria to the Winter Formal," I said, looking down at my feet.

"Who?" asked Cato.

"I mean Enobaria," I said to him.

"Aww," said Cato. "You even have a pet name for her. It's even a cool one. Not like one of those stupid ones like the ones that girls make up for the boys. Dunky, Freddy, Booboo bear, you get the point."

"Yeah," I said while blushing.

"Man," said Cato. "You must have it bad for her. I know how you can ask her to the Winter Formal."

My eyes light up. "How?"

"Okay so what you have to do is…"