“Oh, right, I see. My sister’s just the same.”
“Only it kind of sucks waiting in line on your own all night – so we all came along for the ride.”
“That’s very nice of you.”
“Hey – it’s the summer. Not like we have to do anything else tomorrow,” she said. “Your friends didn’t feel the same way, then?”
“I didn’t really tell them. Don’t think they’d be quite so understanding about the whole sitting around all night for an iPad kind of thing.”
“You’re very sweet to do it for your sister.”
“If it gets me in her good books for a few weeks, it’s a price worth paying.”
“Hey,” she said, as came to a halt between two SUVs. There weren’t too many cars in the parking lot, but Noelle had pulled them over to a cluster that he’d assumed belonged to her and her friends.
She stopped him, pulling him back to her.
“Are you still up for letting me tell you what to do?”
“Letting you?” he joked. “I don’t think you get how to do this.”
She rolled her eyes again, but then she said: “Fine. Then I’ll just tell you.”
“Sure.”
“Kiss me. Now.”
Something like a small hand grenade went off inside his upper chest. He couldn’t hear it, but the burst of intense heat and shock from the blast was quite clearly detectable.
What did she just say?
But he hardly had a moment to process what she’d demanded of him as she pushed him back against the black four-by-four vehicle, launching herself at him. Complete surprise and overwhelming confusion made him putty in her hands.
“Okay…” he said as she pulled him down to her level, placing her hands on his chest.
His chest filled with her sweet perfume, and his whole body trembled with pent up desire and shock. She was so close to him, he could see her individual freckles, even in this low light. Her eyes, highlighted by mascara and eyeliner, were astonishingly beautiful – so bright and sparkling with intelligence.
Then suddenly he felt the heat of her face on his, and her soft breath dancing on his skin, and then her lips were nudging against his, so he could feel the slight waxy texture of her lipstick.
She was kissing him. The most attractive girl he’d ever met. Kissing. Him.
It wasn’t quite his first kiss, but it might as well have been.
She sucked gently on his lips, and then he found his hands moving up to hold her head, almost checking to see if she was real, solid, not some kind of wonderful dream as he lay sleeping crumpled in a queue outside the Apple store.
More than a little insecure in his inexperience, he took his cues from her, he tried to learn from her, he mirrored her moves, gently sucking on her sweet lips, nudging his nose against hers, reveling in the velvet softness of her cheeks against his, inhaling her tantalizing scent with every fathomless breath.
Time just seemed to slow down and stop, as they entered a little world of their own.
Noelle smiled at him even while they continued kissing, and it sent his temperature skyrocketing. He felt her press against him, and to his horror realized she must be able to feel the massive erection that her incredible attention was causing. Yet she didn’t seem horrified by it – she actively pressed herself tighter against him, and suddenly as her kiss lingered, he felt her tongue delving between his lips – oh God, she was so hot.