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“Umm.”
“Listen to me. Yes, Cove and I have spoken about you, briefly. We’re friends. I know you and him hang out, and he knows that me and you do the same. We both like you, and you seem to like both of us, so I propose we keep hanging out and see what happens. No pressure…” I open my mouth to argue but he stops me with a finger to my lips. “None whatsoever. And for the record, I like you. A lot. More than any girl I’ve ever not taken to breakfast before. So stop over thinking, okay?”
All I can do is nod because he’s so close. His warm breath on my face and his soft words in my ears have short circuited my brain.
“Nuggets.”
“Nuggets?”
Honestly I have no idea why that just came out of my mouth. I swear I was trying to formulate a response but got as far as “ungh” and my brain autocorrected it to nuggets.
“I like nuggets?” I say hopefully, praying that he isn’t about to cut and run from this all-new level of crazy that I’m firing at him.
He grins at me, a slow, lazy thing that stretches across his face and lights up his eyes. My heart stutters, freezes. “Is this your way of asking me out on a date, little dot?”
I nod. Because ‘I’m awkward but kinda cute’ looks so much better than ‘my brain autocorrected my freaking-out puddle-of-goo reaction to you, to fucking nuggets’.
“You’re adorable. I’d love to go get nuggets with you sometime. Maybe even dessert too.”
He winks.
And now my heart is beating triple time as my own goofy grin slowly spreads across my face.
“Gretaway.”
“Gretaway?”
I clear my throat. “I meant great. Can’t wait. It got mashed together. I’m sorry. I'm a horrible human. I suck at life.”
He laughs again and mutters something under his breath which sounds suspiciously like “adorable” again.
I blush. Not an ‘adorable’ sprinkling of pink across my cheeks, but full-on angry purple blotches that I can feel spreading from my cheeks all the way down my chest.
I want that ground to open up and swallow me again, but it never seems to heed my wishes. Bastard.
Bhodi is so freaking close.
His breath tickles my face.
If I was brave…if I was Summer…hell, if I was a normal girl, I could lean forward a couple of inches and close the gap between us. Press my lips to his and see if he tastes as good as he looks.
I want to. I really do.
“Are you ever going to kiss me, little dot? You’re killing me here,” Bhodi groans. He leans into me and rests his forehead against mine. It cools my overheated skin but still sends tingles of electricity through me. I love Bhodi’s touch. I want more.
Am I going to kiss him? Should I? It sounds like he wants me to. But what if I suck at it or do it wrong or—
A surprised squeak leaves me when Bhodi decides he’s had enough of waiting and presses his lips to mine. I feel his laugh rumble through his chest; it makes me clench my thighs and dig my nails into my palms to keep from running my hands over every inch of him.
He deepens the kiss, his tongue slipping in to dance with mine and I swear I melt right into his mouth as I dissolve into a puddle on the seat.
Eventually he pulls away, and I swear it’s been a year of solid kissing. We’re definitely late for class. I think we may have missed graduation. I might be in my thirties now, and have missed out on a whole possible life. I don’t know what year it is anymore, all I know is I need more. More of Bhodi. More kissing. And I want to touch and taste every inch of him.
I whimper and pull Bhodi back to me, initiating the kiss this time and trying to do what he did. When I relax into it, stop over thinking and just do what feels good, I actually get the hang of it.
Until Bhodi groans like I’ve hurt him and I pull away like I got a shock.
“Shit. Sorry!” I jump out of my seat and bolt for the door to put some distance between us.
