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When I’d told her about the incident behind the fire truck, and she’d fanned herself with her hand. I felt like I was in high school, talking through a make-out session, analyzing it in minute detail.
Hell, yeah. It was aKiss.
My cell rang from my bag and I dashed over to it, leaving wet footprints behind me. Goldie.
“What the holy hell happened?” She didn’t waste time on hello.
I knew what she was asking about and I refused to enlighten her before I yelled at her first. “What the hell is right! Why on earth did you give Ty that box?”
“I didn’t think you’d do anything about the lack of sex in your life. Thought I might give him a little push.”
“A push?” I turned away from the other pool patrons and covered a hand over the phone. “Anal beads are not a push! Do you have any idea what he thinks of me now? I certainly don’t!”
“He’ll think you’re sexually adventurous and open to trying new things.”
“I’m not into trying anal beads on the first date!” I whispered. More kisses would be okay though.
“Fine, fine,” she grumbled. “I’ll come up with something a little tamer. Just save them for date three.” Chuckling came across the line loud and clear.
I tried counting to ten but made it to six. “You willnotsend him another box.” My voice was two steps below a shout and one I used for the boys when they stuffed their toys down the toilet. “If you do…I won’t tell you about the explosion.” A threat was all I had. And it was a weak one as she’d find out all about it from someone else anyway.
“All right. I won’t send him another box.” She sounded contrite, which meant she had something up her sleeve. Her fingers were probably crossed.
“Good. I’m at the pool so I’ll explain it all later. Ten still?” I was supposed to work with her tonight as Veronica, another employee, was on vacation.
“Please.”
“How come you never torture Veronica with a box?” I wondered.
“One lonely vagina at a time.”
Goldie hung up without a goodbye.
My mouth fell open and I stared at the phone. Had she really just said that? Lonely vagina?
I mindlessly waved to Bobby who cannonballed off the side of the pool. Kelly clapped when he popped above the surface. I put the phone away, still stunned by Goldie’s words and rejoined my friend.
“Hello? The kiss?” Kelly prompted.
“Like I said, it wasn’tjusta kiss.” I sighed. I couldn’t deny it. “It was way more. Whenever I see Ty I have that sick, nervous feeling in my stomach. There are cute guys out there that haven’t done a thing for me. Like Luke Newsom’s dad from second grade. He’s really attractive, but I feel nothing. But then Ty walksin the room and…zing. There’s a zing I can’t explain.” A zing that went straight to my clit.
Kelly waded through the shallow water to pick up Emmaline who was crying because she’d gotten splashed by a big kid. Appeased by her mom’s attentions, the four-year-old wriggled down out of Kelly’s grasp and went back to her water toys.
“God, I love that zing,” Kelly said, looking dreamily up at the sky as if she remembered her own special zing. “So, what’s the problem?”
Exactly. What was the problem? I was chicken. Too chicken to be interested in someone again, even with all that heat between us. The chemistry was off the charts. Even Ty couldn’t argue with that. But I didn’t want him to find me deficient. Unappealing. Like Nate. Life had been plugging along just fine until…zing. Once you get the zing, you can’t go back.
“I need to figure out what’s going on with this ridiculous vial of semen.” I whispered the last as we were in mixed company. Grown-ups and kids.
She frowned. “What does that have to do with the kiss?”
Crap, I hadn’t distracted her. “Nothing. Nothing at all. I just know what comes after a kiss and I’m not sure if I’m ready for it.”
“Theitis the best part! I say go for it.” Kelly pushed her straw hat down further over her eyes. The glare off the water was intense. She put her hand up by her mouth and whispered, “I’d get some of those condom samples at the store, just in case.”
I rolled my eyes. If she only knew about Goldie’s package and the huge box that Ty now had. I went to retrieve the sunscreen from my bag and started spraying. I felt extra heat on the back of my neck. Was it from the sun or from talk about sex with Ty?
“Can we talk about something else now?” She and Goldie seemed to love to gab about my non-existent sex life. Way more than I did.
