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Ada on the sunbed next to me, and smiled sadly

“It’s not that I don’t date I do But what it keeps boiling down to is this—I never know if they like Adam Mackay, the Broadway phenouy who can burp the alphabet backwards, beat anyone at Guitar Hero, and is just a weirdo movie buff With you, I didn’t have to wonder”

“For the record”—I reached across the table separating us, planting my hand on his—“not even one small part of me fell in love with you because you can burp the alphabet backwards”

He threw his head up and laughed, then got up, stopping just above me to plant a kiss on the crown of my head “The L word?”

“I thought it was pretty obvious,” I said in the same exact way he’d replied to me when my eyes asked him about it

“Huh” He straightened his back, sonna do about it, little Nik?”

I grabbed his wrist before he turned away and left the balcony, shooting up tohot, but so ainst the side of his mouth

“I think I’ll start by doing this,” I e of his lips with hchills along my skull

“Yeah?” He grinned, but didn’t ht thinking about all of our small moments There had always been a breath in which we’d almost kissed, but we never did Adam had been starved for my kisses for years The least I could do was do hi him our first one

“I think I will also do this,” I continued, flicking ue between his lips They fell open on de to memory his taste, his feel, his heat

Adauided reedily and with a healthy amount of force

My heart thudded inwith excitement and desire This It felt like ere transported back in ti In love In our feels Like no time had passed at all