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“Ha! Alli-bear.”
He kisses me on the cheek and walks into the kitchen.
Did I just feel my neck getting super hot? He kissed me on the cheek. He’s kissed me on the cheek before. You know, at high school graduation, Christmas, and Easter after church service.
So why is all the blood rushing out of my head and straight into my pounding heart?
Maybe because his lips are so soft? Also, I’m pretty sure he lingered there longer than usual…
“This kitchen hasn’t smelled so good since Mom made Thanksgiving dinner. What did you put on those peppers?”
“Rainbows and unicorns.”
Must make this feeling go away. Maybe it’s just a hormonal thing. Maybe I’m feeling extra emotional.
“Rainbows and unicorns.” Terence chuckles. “You’ve given the same answer since we were eleven years old. It was funny… then.”
“It was funny then,” I repeat back mockingly, and he sticks his tongue out at me.
“You better watch that tongue.” I stand right in front of him, sticking my fingers in his face. “If you’re not careful, someone just might chop it off when you leave it hanging out!”
He sticks his tongue out at me again so I make a swipe at it and miss. He does have the benefit of height here. He sticks it out again, and this time I launch myself into him, catching the side of it.
“Ew! Slobbery!” I wipe it off on his shirt.
“You take that back!” He approaches me, chest-first, to wipe it back off on me.
“No backsies!” I cry as he pins me into the corner of the kitchen. “No backsies!”
He presses against me and whispers in my ear, “Gotcha.”
And then he stays there. We’re both breathing heavier than normal, his breath hot on my chest, making my t-shirt billow. He looks down and notices. But then he must realize he’s staring at my chest, because he looks away and blushes.
“Hellooooooo!”
In a split second, Terence and I are on opposite sides of the kitchen. Cass strolls in.
She looks at me, then at Terence, then back at me.
“What’s going on in here?” She purses her lips like she just caught us in the act. Terence is blushing as though it’s true.
I just have to act natural. “Barbeque prep! Look alive!” I throw a pepper that swiftly bounces off her cheek and splats open on the floor.
“Did you just throw a pepper at me?”
“You didn’t look alive.”
Setting a big paper bag down on the kitchen table, she raises her hands. “Guilty as charged, though you might have noticed my hands were full before you whipped veggies at my face.” She turns to Terence. “And you?”
“Me what?”
“Why are you blushing?”
“I’m not.”
Terence. Worst liar ever.
Cass sets her hands on her hips. “All right, I don’t want to know anyway. Kids these days! But someone help me chop onions. Not you, Alli.”
