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Ugh. Okay, this is worse than the virgin question. This is a truth that I seriously don’t want him to know, that I find myself giving a huge fuck about what he thinks of me. I see him and have a very good idea of who he surrounds himself with – girls, in particular – and it’s not the goody-goody type. I don’t want to be seen as someone who never takes risks and plays it safe. Not by him.
Instead of answering, I hit him back with, “It’s not my turn,” and cover up any residual uneasiness with a smirk.
He lets out an airy chuckle, his grin giving my insides a squeeze, and I feel my heart beat faster in my chest the longer he stares back at me.
Something is happening in this moment. I can’t tell if it’s a good something or bad, but… we’re changing. This is the longest we’ve ever just stared at each other, and my heart is starting to ache with every pound. Whatever plane Kaleb and I have always been on is moving, but it’s so hard to tell in which direction.
I’m almost relieved to see his face change to one of mischief.
“Fine,” he concedes. “Go ahead.”
“Truth or dare?” I fire off as my shoulders relax, feeling like I’m off the hook.
“Dare.”
“Duh. Okay, I dare you –”
“Dare me to kiss you,” he cuts off without even blinking. In fact, he’s never looked more confident.
A sharp gasp expands my lungs and my abdominal muscles tighten. I feel my features pull together in confusion.
“What?”
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LUNA
In disbelief of what I just heard, I vigorously shake my head, as if I fell asleep for a moment and dreamed that he said that. “That’s not how it works. You’re not supposed to choose the dare yourself,” I puff out, flustered by the curve ball.
“So I’m breaking a rule.” He shrugs a shoulder before grabbing onto the dock with the same arm, mirroring my position. “Break it with me,” he challenges with a playful jut of his chin, as his upper body drifts towards me just slightly. I grip the dock a little firmer, but don’t let my own buoyancy move me away from his, chancing to see if he’ll keep moving closer. And he does. It’s slow and casual, giving me plenty of time to move away, protest, or smack him away.
“Wha…” I shake my head, still trying to wrap my brain around this, not to mention the different sensations pinging and zigzagging through my body. “Why?” I finally ask.
“Look how long we’ve known each other.” He levels me with this look like this should be simple math. Who knows, maybe it should be. “Haven’t you wondered what it would be like if we kissed?”
I have, I immediately respond to only myself with no question. I have a million times, but I want to keep that to myself for just a few seconds while I search his face, trying to see if he’s for real; genuine. He’s so hard to read with the many masks he switches between to keep me guessing.
A resigned shadow falls over his eyes as he blinks slowly, shaking his head. “Never mind. I get it, that’s a bad idea, we can just –”
“Yes,” I breathe out before he can finish. Because for a blink of time I saw it, his real face. He may hide it a lot, even from me, but I know what it looks like. And I just saw it, in that split-second as he backtracked. He brought up the kissing because he wanted to.
After my acquiescence, his gaze now darts between my eyes and my lips, queuing me to do the same. Droplets of lake water cling to parts of his gorgeous lips, and the front strands of his wet hair graze my temple as his forehead comes to rest against mine.
“Why?” I ask in a hushed tone, hoping to the stars above that I’m not killing this moment – a moment I never even knew I wanted until we got here. “Tell me why.”
“I chose dare, not truth,” he rasps back, not realizing he told me so much by telling me nothing at all.
We hang suspended in the moment, both of us clinging to the dock, bobbing close to each other with the crickets and water lapping at the dock as our soundtrack. My heart is quaking in my chest, threatening to give out and making my breath ragged as I breathe him in, the breath coming just in time for him to softly place his lips on mine, brushing them together with a softness that suggests he’s feeling me out; gauging my response before taking it deeper.
It feels surreal and dizzying and I press into him, moving my lips with his to signal that this is good; to keep going. I’m breathless, yet I don’t want to take my mouth away from his to take a breath, and I’m reassured that the feeling is mutual when his free hand comes down to grasp onto my waist beneath the water.
His mouth opens and slants over mine, pushing deeper and consuming me in bliss.
Caught up in our movements, I feel my knee brush against his hip, and that one touch ignites my core and makes every cell of my skin awaken. I feel so alive in the darkness of the night, and a small whimper escapes when Kaleb’s hand grips my side tighter and pulls me into him. He groans approvingly into my mouth in response as the few inches between us is erased when he wraps his lean and muscular arm securely around my middle.
I startle slightly when I feel the hard ridge of his cock pressed against my lower abdomen, and my gasp forces us to break the kiss, both of us breathing heavily, and I realize we’re moving. Our bodies are moving together so subtly that I can’t tell if it’s from the motion of the water or if we’re doing it intentionally.
We look at each other a moment, our breaths coming in deep rasps. With each second that ticks by, my body aches more and more in a way I didn’t know it could. It’s rapt with need and I’m not naive enough not to realize what it’s chasing after, no matter my level of inexperience. My body wants Kaleb, and it’s demanding the rest of me to stop living in denial and admit the same.
