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"It doesn’t work like that You have to guess the nu nuht nuure out how many jelly beans are in her jar," he says simply He looks at me "Did you see the jar?"

I nod "It’s a pickle jar" I hold outkind"

"So we need a jar that size, and we need to fill it with jelly beans and then count theht?"

I scrub a hand down uess costs a dollar" I reach into my pocket and pull outto let somebody else kiss her?"

"If I’ to hide the fact that I feel as if I’ "If it were E pickle and every dairl would kiss soo to the store" Hope swells inside uess

Logan and I go shopping, and after we get all our supplies, he looks at oing to have to eat this whole jar so we can fill it with jelly beans"

I look at the jar "I don’t like pickles that an pops the top while alk back to the dor This is what friendship is all about He crunches each bite over and over until he ss, and then he reaches for a second one and passes it to er on the street "You want a pickle?" he asks The stranger sidesteps him "What?" he asks "You act like it’s every day so "Dude, I think he thought you mean a pickle" I make air quotes when I say the word pickle

"How could Ia jar of pickles?" he asks

I shrug "You didn’t look like his type anyway"

"I’an’s all tatted up, on top of being huge

"That has to be it"

By the tione, and we’ve left a trail of people eating pickles in our wake

I burp into an dumps the last two in the bushes outside the dor

He washes out the jar and dries it, and then we start duoes in When it’s full, I look at Logan and say, "How ?" he asks

"Was I supposed to?"

"Shit," he says Then he du to win this contest if it’s the last thing I ever do "If I buy twenty numbers, ten before and after our count, do you think I’ll be safe? I only have twenty dollars left after the pickles"

He points to ?" he asks

I nod and pass it to him He opens it up and props it on the desk in front of hian’s oldest brother, Paul, answers He stares at the screen until he recognizes Logan

"What the fk do you want?" he asks "And whose phone are you calling frohs and pulls me into the frame "It’s Sean’s"

"What up, Sean?" Paul asks

I wave

"You got any cash?" Logan asks

Paul’s eyes narrow "Why?"

"Sean needs to buy a kiss fro for sex now, dude?" he asks He holds up his hands when I start to protest "Not that I think that’s a bad idea or anything Man’s got to do what a h I can’t help it "I can’t ask you for an shouldn’t have called you"

But Logan rushes on "So, you got any h and empties his pockets I see a few dollars float around He yells toward the back of his apartment "Sam! Matt!" Both brothers walk into the room

"You bellowed?" Matt says

"Asswipe there needs some cash so he can buy a hooker" He points towardlike hell by now And Matt and Saan asks

"So it?"

"Where?"

"To school To the kissing booth In the quad"

Paul heaves a sigh "I’ll be there" The phone goes dead

"Do you think we’ll have enough?" I’ht you did" Logan claps a hand onto my shoulder and squeezes

God, I hope this works

Lacey

I groan loudly as soon as the door closes behind Sean and Logan "Aghh!" I want to hit so I want to scream I want to…kiss Sean I want to kiss him so bad

"Spill it," Friday says as she sits down beside E more She just waits

"I don’t even knohere to start" My voice cracks, and I hate that it does

"Start at the ending," E," I grunt "Not a thing Just like always"

"There was so more than the usual sexual tension between you two Did he finally make a move?"

I shake htThat’s all"

"He was taking it," Friday says "The opening that is"

Eht" She snorts

I throw a pillow at her, but she just catches it

"I thought this kissing thing would uess he just doesn’t care as ht he did"