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Felt good to cross those off our list. I couldn’t think of a person I’d rather share that task with, either.
She laid her head against my shoulder. “I think I’m going to like this.”
“Like what?”
“Being loved by you.”
16
Aiden
The morningafter Hailee and I shared our first kiss, we met at the bus stop like we always did.
“Hi,” I said.
“Hi,” she replied.
Her cheeks were sitting high, and I could tell she was a bit nervous.
“Handshake?” I asked, hoping that would make her feel a bit more normal because we were still us.
She put her hand in front of her, palm facing me, and she began the chant. “Pancake, pancake, up real high.”
Without hesitation, I joined in patting my hand against hers. “If you toss it, it will fly.”
She smacked the back of her hand against mine three times. “If you drop it, it will go.”
We both spun once, then faced one another, patted hands, and did a weird body roll as we said, “Down the drains where the creepy clown flows.”
She laughed until I took her hand into mine to hold.
She hesitated. “Wait.”
“What?”
“You’re going to hold my hand? In front of people? Like at school?” she timidly asked.
I smirked. My best friend was nervous. No, wait, correction: my girlfriend was nervous. Wait, no. That still wasn’t right. Hailee was my best girlfriend. Yes, that was what she was now—my best girlfriend. The ultimate position in my life.
“I’ve been waiting seventeen years to hold your hand,” I said matter-of-factly. “So yes, I’m going to hold your hand in front of the whole world if that’s okay with you.”
“Oh.” She grumbled a little, doing that overthinking thing she did where her nose crinkled up. She then took my hand into hers, her perfect chipmunk cheeks rose and blushed over, and she replied, “Okay then.”
Okay then.
That was what she said when she couldn’t over analyze a situation. When her brilliant mind couldn’t come up with a scenario for things not to work out. Whenever I received an okay then from Hailee, it felt like the biggest victory.
I knew it was odd, but I loved her cheeks so much when they rose with her smiles.
She had three freckles that sat on her right cheek and seven that sat on her left, and each time she smiled, I somehow counted every single one. I wanted to kiss those cheeks day in, day out.
For now, though, it felt good to simply hold her hand.
So many goodthings were going on for me lately that I wasn’t shocked when Jake reached out to me.
