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He gives me a wink.
My body goes cold.
“Or, we can go with them!” I throw out.
Nobody pays any attention to that.
“They want to meet at the Irish pub in town in about half an hour,” Brandon says.
“Oh!” Mom says as she jumps up. “I’ll get dressed!”
My mouth drops as I watch them both run up the stairs.
I can feel August’s eyes on me when they’re gone.
I turn to him and he’s grinning.
“Looks like Kevin McCallister won’t be the only one who’s Home Alone.”
* * *
We’re halfway through the movie and both of us are still on separate couches.
I keep my narrowed eyes on August as he stands up and grabs the bowl of popcorn on the coffee table.
The budding psychopath, Kevin McCallister, is traumatizing the pizza delivery boy by pretending that the gangster in the black and white movie is shooting at him.
August chuckles as he takes the bowl and sits down on my couch.
“Excuse me,” I say with a stern look. “This ismycouch.”
“Popcorn?” August asks, offering me the bowl.
I frown playfully as I take a couple.
This is so confusing. I want August beside me. There’s so much I want to try with him. I can’t stop thinking about those amazing kisses and the night at the orchestra when he made me feel more pleasure than I knew a human was capable of feeling.
But I’m also worried about my mom and how she’s going to react when this inevitably blows up in our faces.
If he wasn’t my stepbrother, I’d totally be into this, but of course with my luck, he is. The one guy I’ve ever had a crush on, the one guy who I’m starting to fall for, turns out to be the one guy I can’t have.
Why does life have to be so complicated? Why can’t it ever just be easy?
August puts his hand on mine and I’m about to yank it away, I swear I am, but it’s so warm and soft and it feels so good.
It’s easy with August. It’s just everything around us that’s making it hard.
We can’t do this. I have to put an end to it here and now.
He looks at me as I grab the remote control off the coffee table and pause the movie.
“This has to stop,” I say as I look at him.
He looks at my mouth. I look at his. My mouth waters.
No! Stop it! It’s enough!
“You know we can’t do this, right?” I ask.
