Page 108 of Fostering Chemistry
He was in complete agreement. “That thing had to weigh several tons.”
“I felt bad asking you to help,” I admitted.
“You shouldn’t have. I was glad you came to me.” He hesitated. “I wanted to impress the cute new girl and show her I could flip a mattress or slay a dragon for her, but I swear the dragon might have been easier.”
I couldn’t help laughing. “Probably. But we did it.”
“Yep. And then we landed on it.”
“You landed on me.”
“Yes,” Aaron said slowly. “I remember that part very well.”
I hesitated, but the fact that it was mostly dark and we were under the covers gave me courage. “Were you going to kiss me?”
“Yes,” he said, and it sent a thrill through me, even though he had kissed me since then. “At least until Raymond interrupted. That guy is a waste of space.”
“He’s not so bad,” I said, surprising both of us.
“Since when?”
“Since...” I thought about it quickly. “Last Thursday.”
“When you were still sick?”
“Yes.”
“All right, well, I’ll take your word for it, but I’m still pissed that he interrupted us.”
“Maybe it was for the best. Because when we did have our first kiss, it was in the most magical place in the world.”
He snorted. “Squashed behind a mirror?”
“Exactly,” I giggled, scooting a couple of inches toward him.
Aaron reached out and stroked my hair, pushing it away from my forehead. I lifted my head and settled it back on top of his arm.
Now we were touching.
“Okay, if I can’t be mad at Raymond, can I be mad at Cousin Dan?”
“Well, if he hadn’t been horny, we wouldn’t have been behind that mirror in the first place.”
“All right, you’re right.”
“The situation may have been messed up, but I thought the kiss was pretty damn good.”
“So did I,” I said quietly.
“And then…” He hesitated.
“What?”
“Well, I just… I was really surprised when you put my hand on you.”
He was being so purposefully vague, perhaps out of propriety’s sake, that it took me a moment to understand that he meant when I’d lifted his hand to my breast.
“Oh. Yeah. I was kind of surprised I did that too. But I didn’t want you to feel bad that you were turned on.”
