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Oh,to do," I replied, fighting to hideto tell me to pick someone neutral to have my first kiss with In a roundabout way, you want to be the one to kiss me first"

Immediately he scoffed "I don’t want to kiss you, Leah You’re delusional"

"Don’t deny it Why else would you pretty ret it with?"

"I didn’t ritted his teeth, huffing out, "You want to kiss Roo and kiss Rolitter on his lips when I do it too"

He stilled and brought his hand to hisit When he looked down at his hand, his face darkened He got out of bed after that Grabbing a towel from the dresser, he turned the corny music off and left the room without a word

He didn’t co but his boxers, water dripping from his hair He sla for his father to bark out from soh, per usual I was onCarter closely as he walked to the , shutting it hard Then he peered through the blinds, seeht

I’d clearly ruined theit by that point I didn’t want hiry at me, but there really wasn’t a reason for hi, plus it wasn’t all that unusual for him to be shitty with h silent treat each other up, until one of us cracked and ca back It was usually him, and I was proud of the tally I’d kept score of

He turned then and stood with his back to the , facingat ain I couldn’t read hiot up and left when he was out Maybe he had expected o Despite the aard turn of events, I still wanted to be around hi not to redden by how hard he was gawking at me

When he pushed off from theand headed for the bed, my body tensed His eyes still hadn’t left ot to ht, and all breath left me in a rush when he crawled in obsmacked the second his body enveloped mine He had his elbows propped up on either side of my head Every bit of oing to pull this off without giving away how nervous he made me feel

"Do you want me to kiss you?" he asked in a low voice, his face barely a foot away fro overacrossbecause of hi? Shit, this was just a dream Of course it was One does not climb out of a doomed friendship status this easily

"Um" My mouth was dry I didn’t need to talk This was my dream, after all He didn’t need to hear actual words

"Um what?" His lips pulled up into a s how soft they looked I was so close I could see every freckle on his face, and suddenly I wondered how I could dream up parts of him I hadn’t even noticed before

No, this was reality Shit And I’d lain there for who kno long saying things like "U heavily He didn’t need to be on top of an oxygen thief

"Do you want me to put my lips on yours?" he continued to ask