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Why was I sweating?
It was only Lily.
My Lily.
The girl who held my heart in the palm of her hands.
She climbed out of the car and the world went from under me. Fuck me. She. Was. Stunning.
Her eyes found me, twinkling like stars in the night sky.
“Lily,” her name fell from my lips on a sigh.
“What is all this?” she said.
Her sister and friends slipped around us, disappearing into the house.
“I wish I could take the credit, but it was all Peyton’s idea.”
Her brows furrowed. I couldn’t take my eyes off her. The heavy makeup on her eyes, the deep red lip gloss coating her lips, and her hair… fuck me, her hair. It cascaded down her back and over her shoulders in thick waves I itched to caress.
“Kaiden?” Her voice was so small, so uncertain.
“I… do you have any idea how beautiful you look?”
“I feel a little ridiculous to be dressed like this, at Bryan’s house.”
“You look perfect.” It wasn’t the dress she wore last night, but a black, floor-length gown that dipped low in the front and back giving a hint of what I knew lay beneath.
I took her hand in mine, surprised to find my own shaking. “Don’t think of it as Bryan’s house,” I said, dipping my head to kiss her cheek. “Think of it as Homecoming 2.0.”
Chapter Thirty-Five
Lily
I still couldn’t believeit. I was at Bryan’s house, surrounded by my friends and family, dancing with my boyfriend under a slightly off-kilter disco ball to a cheesy mix tape…
And it was hands down the best night of my life.
The fact that they’d even thought to do something so amazing had completely blown me away.
“Are you enjoying your night?” Kaiden leaned down, brushing his lips over the shell of my ear. I snuggled closer to him, a contented sigh escaping my lips.
“It’s perfect.”
“You’re perfect.” His arms banded tighter around me as we swayed completely out of sync to the upbeat song blasting through Bryan’s speakers.
“Excuse me, but you’re hogging the Homecoming queen.” Peyton wrangled me out of his arms and slid a tiara into my hair. “There, now you’re perfect.”
“And you’re absurd.”
“But you love me?”
“I do. So much.” We hugged to the sound of Kaiden’s soft laughter.
“I’ll be at the bar,” he said.
Because Bryan had fashioned one of those over in the corner of the room.
