Admiring 5
Tadhg lands into Tommen halfway through the year, still smelling of smoke and bad memories, still raw from the fire that tore the floor out from under the Lynches. Shannon and Johnny are barely two minutes dragging him through the halls before they’re introducing him to her—Delaney Biggs, the youngest of the Biggs clan, with Claire’s sunshine persona and Hugh’s smarts, all wrapped up in a face that could stop a lad mid sentence.Which is exactly what happens, because Tadhg, confident and cocky, speaks the first thing that crosses his mind. “Nice legs.” She just blinks at him, all affronted and angel-faced, while Shannon thumps him in the ribs for being a dose. But Delaney doesn’t storm off. No—she tilts her head, calls him a creep, and somehow still lets him walk beside her. From there, it’s chaos. Tadhg flirting shamelessly at every turn, leaning against lockers with that cocky grin, tossing her winks in the middle of class. Delaney rolling her eyes hard enough to see last week. Their friendship becomes a tug-of-war of teasing, tension, and stolen moments: him showing up to annoy her at lunch, her pretending not to wait for him after training, both of them dancing around something neither wants to admit.
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