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Sylvester.
Her fragile state.
Our friendship.
I was supposed to be gentle with her. Let her have time to heal. I was supposed to be herfriend, and listen, and then send her off back to California with a big smile and a thumbs-up and wishes of luck and success.
Instead, I just kissed her.
“It was my fault,” she says, backing up another few steps. She snaps off the radio. “It’s really late. I think we better go home. A little fresh air might do us good.”
Chapter 16
Maddison
I thought fresh air would do us both some good. Break whatever spell that was, that settled over the diner.
But out here under the night sky, it’s almost worse.
I feel woozy and flustered, and it feels like I’m floating as we start to walk down the sidewalk, side by side.
Nick kissed me.
Not only that, but he took my breath away.
He isn’t a teenager anymore. He’s aman, and that kiss… that kiss was incredible.
We hook a left on State Street. The houses we pass are dark, for the most part. A few porch lights twinkle. Mailboxes stand like little shadowy sentinels at the end of each driveway.
Nick’s being awfully quiet.
I’d break the silence… if I knew what to say.
But I don’t.
When he slips his hand through mine and holds it, my heart flutters.
We kissed… and now we’re holding hands.
Do friends do this sort of thing?
No.
The answer is no.
And I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t blur the boundaries of our relationship this time around. That contract is broken now, along with any shred of confidence I had in my own self-discipline.
I suck at this control thing.
I’m as bad as my father, with his big proclamations of riding the stationary bike ten miles a day. That fitness spree, according to my mother, lasted all of forty-eight hours.
My self-imposed rules about Nick lasted a bit longer, but not much.
My car…
Myrtle!
Nick squeezes my hand, and all thoughts of my vehicle’s soft, tan leather seats and spiffy moonroof fly right out the window. “How are you holding up?” he asks.
