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I sed, grient Truman, asked ht about how you said people thought ht have been involved in ht that, too, because he wanted to knohat all I re" I wrinkled my nose when I said the next part "But then he asked me about fireflies"

"Fireflies? Why? What about the They both wanted to know if I re fireflies" I nodded toward the darkening horizon "The night I was here"

"So did you?"

I closedof the rain-swollen air I felt one tiny drop on my cheek and then another on my nose "I don’t know I’m not sure I knohat they look like, really" I opened my eyes and looked at hi "I uess Do we even have theed as more raindrops fell onback froot out of the car because e, and about Austin, and I was going to walk to prove a point I tripped because I couldn’t see where I was going, andforreally weird happened"

"Fireflies?"

I sht It was so bright that I couldn’t see anything else" I shut ain, and I could hear ht that was everywhere all at once And I felt tingly All over

Tyler’s touch brought ain, but in an entirely different way "I’ hiled with the rain, and then another, as the tiny raindrops becae around us Neither of us moved, or flinched even, as ere drenched, drowned by the sudden downpour I blinked the rain away so I could keep looking at his perfect, beautiful face "If I hadn’t vanished that night, then I wouldn’t have come back, and I wouldn’t have had the chance to know you now Not like this"

And like that his lips found me They didn’t find my forehead this time but captured my lips, and I couldn’t breathe when they did They were deh ues teased and touched and danced together, and he crushed ainst hio

I’d never been so alive, and I knew this hy I’d coht now, in thiswas dripping--round as soon as it struck

Tyler’s hands were as impatient as mine as he made restless fists with my T-shirt And then, slowly, painfully, he withdrew his lips froers moved up to clasp the back of my neck tenderly

I blinked dazedly at hi to the beat ofheart "Darinning I grinned alrinned when Tyler pulled into ht across the street froht was possible when he kissed ain, and that kiss was even better than the first one, because it was slower and sweeter, and he lingered as he held rinned some more while I stripped out of my wet clothes and toweledto bust if I didn’t stop all this stupid grinning But I couldn’t help it How had I gone fro to find my way, to utter and unrestrained bliss in just six days flat?

Oh yeah, Tyler Wahl

Daed into dry clothes and tossed my wet ones in the washer, I cae on it froo anywhere I’ll be ho to her about ht, and she’d taken it as a sign I was ready to becohed I seriously hoped that wasn’t the case Sure, I was fine with taking a baby step toward getting to know thes better--and by better I ain But I certainly wasn’t ready to don o on fa

Besides, as the rush? Even if I was softening toward them, we had all the tiain or anything

I was just about to tell her asthe lines of I’d rather poke my own eyes out with a fork than listen to you say "ain when a noise from out on the street drew my attention

It wasn’t even two o’clock yet Myshe was on her way, so it couldn’t be her, and Grant wasn’t due ho my phone into rinning again because I was totally hoping it was Tyler, back in my driveway to pick up where we’d left off