“Not if we have different ones.”
“Do we?” I step closer to her, closing the distance.
“I don’t know, last time I checked I couldn’t read minds. But even if I could I don’t think I’d want to be in yours. I don’t even want to imagine all the gross things in that teenage boy brain of yours.” She shivers and I just laugh.
“I doubt it’s any worse than yours.”
Lily will usually say anything that pops into her mind. I don’t even need to have a superpower to know what she’s thinking. Except right now.
“Oh please, I’m not jacking off into socks.”
I shake my head. “Neither do I.”
“Will you just take me home?”
“Not until you answer the question.” I take another step closer.
“Parker,” she breathes.
Another step.
“Lil.”
Another step.
We’re less than an inch apart; I’m much taller than her, but I lean down to be even closer.
“It would change everything,” she whispers.
“Would that be a bad thing?” I whisper back.
“It could be.”
“Or it could be the best thing we’ve ever done,” I counter.
“It could be,” she repeats as I raise my hand to cup the side of her face. My heart is racing. She’s not stopping me. This is really happening.
I’m about to kiss Lily, my best friend. The only girl I’ve ever thought about is right here and she’s not pulling away or stopping me.
“What’s your answer, Lil?” I whisper when our lips are so close I can practically taste her minty breath.
Her hands find my shoulders just seconds before she starts to speak, but I cut her off with my mouth landing on hers. And in that moment my entire world shifts. I pull her closer into me and try to hide how much I’m shaking with nerves as I kiss her harder. When she wraps her arms around my neck, lips parting, I tentatively push my tongue into her mouth, and she accepts the move easily.
It's all just easy.
In this moment I know everything has in fact changed. But it’s changed for the better, and I never want to go back.
When we break apart, I can’t help myself. “Still not going to answer?”
Lily lets out a loud laugh that has her head falling back. “Smash, obviously.”
I take her mouth with my own once again, swallowing her laughter. I can easily say this has become the best day of my life. But something tells me it can only get better from here.
The alarm goes off signaling a call, and I jump up, ready to go. It’s funny how on that day a younger me didn’t know everything we’d go through. One thing I knew even then is that I’d still love Lily to this day. And that even being apart hasn’t stopped me from falling more in love with her every day.
CHAPTER 33
Lily