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I flip Toby onto his back and straddle hionna let you meet them?”

He smirks up at me “What other option do we have? Sneakin’ ht secret? Don’t they knoe’re … friends or whatever?”

Friends or whatever … “What are we, Toby?”

A look of uncertainty twists his face “You tell me, Vann”

We’re still naked, and straddling hi, sexual position Yet somehow, neither of us see, our state of undress right now I find that i, the level of comfort we’ve achieved between us in so short a time

I shrug “We’ve been seeing each other for weeks now”

“A month, if you round”

“It’s hopefully pretty clear I have no interest in anyone else in this stu—in this town,” I go on

Toby squints suspiciously at me “You were about to say stupid toeren’t you? Just now? Why’d you hold back?”

“I dunno Guess it’s growing on me Can I kiss you?”

Toby sucks in his own lips, then says in a tiny voice, “Uh, even withbreath?”

“You don’t havemy mouth closer to his “And that hasn’t stopped me before, has it?”

Our lips connect My push-up slowly collapses as I lay myself atop him, then scoop hi around our legs as we give in to another wave of desire Oneturns into two, and it’s clear neither of us want to stop anytime soon

It’s well after noon when I let Toby fish throughto put on He chooses a pair of black shorts and a shirt I always thought looked like a bunch of doht—and which he seems suspiciously selective of “Reminds me of you,” he says innocently when I poke him about it I don’t press him further We take turns in the bathroom, then sharetheon a black tank top and jeans myself, I notice it seeers that my parents have taken off to do so the house to us