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“Fun,” he repeated in a kind of daze “I’ to be able to build my mother’s bookshelf”

“I told you I’d help you Just tell me when”

Asher cocked his head “Thank you I’ll talk to her There’s a chance she hired someone, and it’s already filled to the brim with books and knickknacks”

“If not, call me” I brushed my hand on my shorts and sates to the school parking lot Ready?”

He stared, unseeing, into the kitchen, then nodded “Yeah, I—what now? Are you ready to coain? It’s fine if I don’t—well, that’s not true It would be nice to…”

I let hi like that His hands ained momentum He was nervous and thatuneasy around each other I wanted to assure hiate friendship to a schedule We could go with the flow and see where this led and—da

I stepped into his space to get his attention When he looked up at ot how to speak, so I acted instead I cupped his chin and fused my mouth to his

It was just so fucking…perfect I froze to see if he was okay with it He hummed into the connection a ue inside And noas on fire

A sudden onslaught of desire spread through h every nerve ending in ainst the wall, and fuck hi But friends didn’t do that They weren’t supposed to kiss this way either…with gliding tongues and hungry groans—but I wanted him So bad

I pulled hiers down his chest, and splayedthem to rest on his ass

Ash liked that He wound his arainst my mouth My control slipped another notch Our make-out session went into overdrive with passionate kisses peppered with feverish sucking and licking

My shorts didn’t leave ed to keep ave in to temptation, we’d be naked in no tiret this Or me

I broke the kiss, panting as if I’d just run a marathon as I stepped aside “Sorry I couldn’t help it You’re so hot”

Ash pulled his glasses off and wiped the lenses on his shirt “Then why did you stop?”