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“Um…” She pulled her hair forward and started running her fingers through it. She didn't look at me, instead watching as Roman dunked Jace under the water. I sat there quietly for a few moments not knowing what to do. “I think…no, I know. I just got my period.”
Her big blue eyes were watering like she was about to burst into tears.
“That thing we learned about in sex ed?”
I was panicking now. I didn't want to freak her out, but was she going to be okay? I didn't listen well to the girl part; I was still freaked out about the boy part. Like how everyone else in class had known that's how babies were made, and I hadn’t. My parents never told me that stuff. Even Mila and the boys knew, and I sat there and tried to pretend I did. It finally made sense to me why I was washing my sheets almost every morning.
But the period…that was the blood part. She was bleeding? I looked to the water, to the tree, back to Mila. I didn't know what to do. Should I call her dad?
“Yes, and I don't want anyone to see when I ride home.” She sniffled.
“Hey, what are you doing, Mila? Come in, we can race,” Jace called out, waving his arm, and I saw her stiffen. This was bad.
“Should I get my mom?” I could ride really fast home and get her. I was sure she hadn't been drinking today, so she could come and get Mila. Take her to the hospital? Home?
But Mila shook her head. “No, if you give me your shorts, I can go home. I promise I will wash them, Hunter. I just…I didn't.” She buried her head in her arms, and I felt a pang in my chest. She was embarrassed, and I didn't want her to be. I knew all the sex stuff was kinda icky and weird, but I didn’t want her to be sad.
“You can have my shorts.” I moved to pull them off and kicked at them when they got stuck to my shoes. I handed them to her, and she whispered, “Thanks.”
Jace called out again, only he was closer now, and I heard her suck in a gasp. “Hey, we will be there in a minute.” I moved forward to block Mila from the boys. When she got my shorts on, she stood. I turned just as she pulled the drawstring tight.
“Thanks, Hunter.”
Mila left and didn't come back to swim for three whole days. The boys complained about how she was slacking off this summer. But when I told my mom what had happened, she told me that I did the right thing. Mila just needed a few days because periods could make you feel sick and crabby.
But now, when she’s supposed to be getting on a plane, she’s in my yard…nervous. Is it because she got her period again and needs my shorts?
I decide not to wait for her to tell me. I tug my shorts down and hold them out to her. She looks from me to the shorts and then back to me before bursting into giggles.
“No, I don't need your shorts today, Hunter.”
Now I feel silly and quickly pull them back on. I want to hug her and tell her she can stay with me. I will hide her in my house so her mom can't find her, and I will feed her pizza and strawberries. Her favorites.
“Why are you here?”
She looks down at her feet then glances at me under her lashes. A small smile is there as she licks her pink lips. “I want you to be my first kiss, Hunter.”
I take a step back, stunned. Did she really ask me that? She wants me to be her first kiss? Not Jace. Not Roman. Me. Unable to form words, I point to my chest, and she nods.
I open my mouth to say yes, but all I can do is stutter. I nod and she smiles.
She moves in close, her hands going to my shoulders, and I place mine on her hips. For a brief moment, I think about the pact I have with the boys. But that leaves my mind just as fast as it entered. She wasn't coming back. They wouldn't know, and I wanted to be her first kiss. I wanted her to be mine.
The butterflies in my belly start dancing, and I draw closer, my lips puckered. I close my eyes as her warm lips brush against mine.
It’s like fireworks and cherry snow cones and jumping into the lake on a hot summer day. Kissing Mila is all of my favorite things wrapped up into one perfect moment. I love her and want to marry her and, even though it’s kinda icky, have babies with her. She’s the girl for me.
“The fuck?” Roman yells, jolting me out of my memories and back to the party. His fist is balled in Emerson’s tee, who holds his hands out in surrender.
“Fuck, I was just asking. Because of the pact you were talking about, it sounds like Mila’s fair game, and I can ask her out.”
“No,” all three of us yell at the same time.
Emerson’s eyes widen right before Roman throws him back against the couch. A girl screams as he lands beside her. I look over and notice it’s the girl who was all over me earlier. She peers up at me with those fake lashes, and I shake my head. I don’t want her anymore. Not after seeing Mila.
Mila was going to be the end of me. I still want her, after all this time. But now I’m also pissed. I need to know who was first. It makes sense that she would have kissed Jace last when she rode her bike home. But my house is the same distance away from her place as Roman’s but in opposite directions. She would’ve had to ride past her area of town before going to the other. She came to me around lunch time. Would that have even been enough time to get to Roman’s, then get home and kiss Jace, then leave?
“I was first,” Jace growls at us as Britney comes up beside him, placing her hand on his arm. He spins on her, and her eyes widen.
