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He takes my hand and leads me to the pseudo dance floor made up in Gabe’s living room. Never letting go of my hand, he places it on his shoulder and pulls me into him with his palms on my hips.
The heady feeling of the alcohol and having him close to me is making my head spin. I’ve danced with boys at our junior high dances, but nothing like this. He’s holding me against his body, moving my hips exactly the way he wants, and when he places his forehead to mine, I swear I feel my body melt into his.
His lips are so close to mine that I can feel his breath. All I can think about is if he’s going to kiss me. My chest gets so tight that I’m having trouble breathing, but I don’t want him to stop. Thank God he’s basically holding me up because I might topple over if he wasn’t.
When his hands slide down my hips, goose bumps cover my body. As the song slows down, so do his movements. In my head, everyone disappears and we’re alone in this living room and not surrounded by kids from our school. In this moment, it’s just us, and I don’t know if it’s him or the drinks I’ve had that are making me so hot, but I don’t care. I feel like I’m on fire, and right now, he’s the only thing I need to cool me off.
Just when I think he’s finally going to make his move, someone bumps into us, and I almost fall to the ground.
Thankfully, he catches me in his strong arms just as we almost get knocked over again.
We both turn to see a fight about to break out.
Beau steadies me on my feet and checks to make sure I’m okay before turning to break up the fight.
I watch in disbelief as two guys yell at each other with Beau holding one back and Gabe holding the other.
As chaos ensues in the living room, someone else grabs my arm and pulls me into the hallway. Not having a clue what’s going on, I go willingly and take a minute to stand on my feet, only to realize who brought me here.
When my eyes meet with Aaron’s, I blink a few times to make sure I’m seeing this properly. He’s very close to me, standing tall above me and looking down at me.
“Aaron?” I question as I take in a breath to calm the confusion in my head.
“Don’t do this, Sadie,” he says barely above a whisper.
If he wasn’t standing so close to me, I probably wouldn’t have heard what he said, but there’s no doubt of what I just heard.
“Don’t do what?”
“Don’t kiss him. Don’t be with him.”
He tucks a piece of hair that fell from my clip behind my ear. The motion catches me off guard, but not as much as the way he’s staring into my eyes.
I don’t know what to say, so I just blink, not liking that it breaks our eye contact for that tenth of a second, but feeling that’s the only thing my body can do right now.
I’m absolutely frozen as I stare up at the boy I’ve known my entire life, who’s looking at me in a way I’ve never seen him look at me before.
When I don’t respond, he places his finger on my chin, then moves it down to the firefly necklace he bought me a few years ago, which I wear every day. He holds on to it tightly as he says, “He doesn’t deserve you.”
“Then, who does?” is all I can think to say.
When he responds with, “Me,” my mind goes blank, and my body goes limp when he crashes his lips onto mine.
It only takes point-two seconds for me to realize what’s happening and, more importantly, how much I want it to happen.
I don’t push him away.
I don’t stop him.
No. I wrap my arms around him and deepen our kiss while I run my fingers through his hair.
When he grabs my ass and I lift my leg up to bring him closer against me, I know we’ve just crossed a line that we’ll never be able to come back from.
CHAPTERSEVEN
Present Day
I close my eyes as memories of the night my life changed forever washes over me. At that moment, I thought it was the best night that’d ever happened to me. It was my first kiss, so how could I not feel that way?
