My hand, which is following a stray pencil rolling across the floor, stops dead right in front of two ratty green sneakers.<br />My gaze follows the shoes up over long legs to a towering figure.<br />I stand abruptly.<br />Tall, black eyes, messy hair, a permanent scowl on a permanently angry face. Our school's delinquent, a waster, the kind of boy who always sits at the back of class.<br />The kind of boy even popular people like Sophia are afraid of.<br />Teddy Taualai.<br /><br />Alice Dyson knows exactly how she'll be spending her final year of high school: with her head down, concentrating on her textbooks and homework. She's focused on the future, and nothing is going to get in her way.<br /><br />Until a bizarre encounter with the school's most notorious troublemaker derails all her plans, turning Alice into the unwilling centre of attention and her life into one enormous complication.<br /><br />And even worse? Now Teddy Taualai won't leave her alone.<br /><br />A romantic story about rumours, friendship, and discovering who you really are.<br /><br />Shortlisted for the 2018 Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award