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4. Go on a college road trip.
5. Make kulolo.
6. Go to prom.
7. Make a plan for life after high school.
8. Eat meat loaf at Hank’s.
9. Go to all of Blake’s soccer games.
10. Spend a week at Aunt Lisa’s beach house.
11. Plan a Senior Skip Day adventure.
12. Kiss B. C.
ings we talked about doing on the way to the beach. at we talked about all summer. at I
want to do with her, and no one else, by my side.
And then, right there, in front of all of Huckabee, I get up from the table and walk right up to her. I
reach out and grab her hand, and she turns around to face me, the entire room disappearing around us.
Her eyes are wide, her mouth falling slightly open.
“I’m sorry, Blake,” I say soly. en, like I’m launching myself o the biest cli in the entire
world, I tell her what I’ve wanted to say since that night at the beach. Since she told me how she felt
the night of the bonfire. “For not being brave enough to admit that I like you.”
She swallows, giving me a look that sends butterflies scattering across my chest, everything about
her, and this, and us, feeling right. The list leading me to this moment.
To her.
“Blake. I really like you,” I say. “I like you a lot. I like your eyes, and how you smell like a day at the
beach, and how you make me feel like I can do just about anything. I like that you paint these insane
pictures, and that you make the world seem so much bier than here, than Huckabee. I like that you
give me butterflies, butterflies that I never even knew were possible, just by looking at me the way you
are right now. e way you have this entire summer. You make me want to go on a million adventures,
like… like…” I lean past her to pull the piece of paper out of the basket. “Like all of these things. And so
many more, Blake. That I want to do. With you.”
She looks down at the list, and then back up at me, and then… she smiles. at smile that knocked
me o my feet at the very first bingo night. at smile that is in every one of my memories from this
summer.
She takes a step forward, her hand reaching out to touch my waist, sending a shock of electricity
through my whole body.
“Can I ki—”
e words aren’t even out of her mouth before I pull her closer. And… it’s everything I never knew
a kiss could be. Her lips are so and warm and absolute magic, all the voices and the other people
fading away, like there’s nothing else in this world but us. And I don’t count down to anything at all.
We pull apart and I hear a “Whoop!” from across the room, both of us turning to see Kiera at the
back table, grinning like it’s Christmas morning, Jake letting out a wolf whistle, Olivia and Ryan
clapping just behind them. I meet Matt’s gaze and he gives me a smile and a small nod, the best ex-