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“No worries Besides,ork out with Becca and me She’s alht Don’t tell Becca I said that You guys are equally hot, I was just—”

I couldn’t help laughing “Jason? Shut up Call Becca”

I hit end, handing Kyle his phone back He stared at the phone “That was pretty slick, Nell I gotta hand it to you” He glanced at me quizzically “Does Becca really have a crush on hiain “Hell yes She’s been rade, but it’s been longer than that Way longer Like…since fourth grade Forever Another reason why I should never have said yes to hi asked out by cute boys is a big deal, and you and Jason are the two cutest guys in the whole school”

Kyle grinned at od Oh god This was trouble I couldn’t rass was suddenly really, really interesting

“You know you’re hot, Kyle Calloway, so quit fishing for co to distract hi hot red froht shades of red, Nell” His voice was all too close His breath was hot on ?

I looked up and Kyle’s eyes were centiers were reaching forbut his sculpted body and his fiery eyes and his hand in ue tip running over his lower lip Suddenly Kyle was sorown up with, but a youngjawline, but an intense, grown up, alaze

I didn’t know this Kyle, but I liked hih h my lips as Kyle pressed his h ht

Kyle was kissing od I liked it, so much My first kiss

I was breathless, unable to n but perfect, questing and hesitant He pulled away, leavingthe loss of the kiss

“Nell? I—you…?” He seemed unsure of himself, of the kiss

I s against his My hand drifted fro around his ear, h of relief, and this tiainst his, breathless in wonder again, or still

A thousand questions that had cropped up inwere answered What did you do with your noses? What nose? All I kneas his htly tilted Hands? They seeo on their own To his face, to his nape, to his arms I could breathe even as we kissed, obviously I’d wondered if I had to hold hted to understand that I could kiss Kyle forever, I’d never have to break for breath I didn’t want to

I wasn’t sure how rass on the hill I didn’t care Nothing mattered but the delirious joy of Kyle, of uy I’d ever really cared about

This wasn’t just perfectly natural, it was the only thing I could iure out how it hadn’t happened before now

Then, suddenly, I was lying down in the grass, blades crushed and tickling my bare back beneath the strap of ht partially on me, partially supported by his arrass next to my face, and I curledsure he didn’t pull away, didn’t stop kissing me