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"You didn’t look at the paper I gave you…" My heart is pounding like , and I want to fall into him

"The one you put in your pocket"

His brow furrows

"Never mind," I say, breathless He spent 142 dollars for a kiss he already owned in more ways than one If I loved this erous

He looks down into ht? "What’s the plan here?"

"I’ at me

My breath hitches

"But you have to say yes, first" He hasn’t let"

I can’t even think, and he wants aze searchesto find the secrets to the universe there

"I swear on your life," I say

He chuckles "My life?"

I nod

His eyebrows draw together "Aren’t you supposed to swear on your own life?"

"My lifeif you’re not in it"

His hands start to treainst an’s brothers start to chant, "Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss…," and the crowd joins in

"You better kiss et restless" A tear rolls down aze soft and warm

His eyes open, and he leans closer to et to him because I can’t wait one more second He stops a breath away from me, just like he did in the room He waits "You have to close the distance," he says tome choose

I fall into him and press my lips to his He freezes But then he starts to kiss me And all the fireworks at the state fair couldn’t coentle but urgent They’re kind but insistent They’re soft but firm His head tilts, and he licks across the sea ue touchesue with his, and nothing ever felt so right as being with hi o I want to kiss him forever and never even come up for air

Sohs into the microphone, but I don’t care And neither does Sean He kissesme until he wipes the memory of every other kiss I have ever experienced from my head There will never be another kiss like this Not forto have to get the hose, I think," the announcer says I open my eyes, and Sean opens his at exactly the saue froain and again, and then he lets o I wobble onas he does

"You okay?" he asks He holds onto s an arather enough wits

The crowd goes wild Sean takes e My wobbly knees will barely carry h five Sean as we approach, and Eh

"Hoas it?" Emily asks

I don’t need to answer They can see it on my face I look up at Sean, and he sine ," I adaze and smack my lips "But for some reason, he tastes like pickles"

"Oh an!" She shoots thelance

Sean flushes scarlet There’s a story there I just don’t knohat it is But he’ll tell me I won’t let him avoid it

He reaches into his pocket and pops a handful of jelly beans into his an points to Sean’s reat on you"

I look at Sean again, and h I ht if he looks like that He wipes at the corners of my lips with his thumbs "Next time, I’ll wear pink," I whisper

"I don’t care what you wear," he says His gaze is hot, and " He looks intoHe presses his lips to et used to the fact that I can kiss you whenever I want"

"Says who?" I taunt

"That’s what boyfriends do, Lacey," he says, as if he needs to reain I step ontoonto the back of his neck, until we’re both breathless, and I’ree "That’s what boyfriends do"

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