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Her smile is watery. “Even when I don’t knowwhoI am?”
“Especially then.” I’m a total sap right now and I don’t care. She needs to hear it, and I need to say it. “You’ll always be perfect for me because you’renotperfect.” I make a scoffing sound. “Perfect’s boring. Give me a complicated, competitive, sexy Smurfette any day.”
“That’s so gross,” she whispers, her tone still thick with emotion. “Never use sexy and Smurfette in the same sentence again.”
“Deal,” I whisper back.
Her eyes fill with tears as she goes back to serious territory like we’d never left.
“That’s how I feel too, you know. I love you for the good and the bad.” Her eyes are soveryserious when they meet mine, and now I am legally obligated to make her smile. It’s boyfriend law.
“For the good and the bad, huh?” I shift her in my arms so we sway slightly. “What about…for better or for worse?”
“Yes.” She chokes on a laugh. “But don’t propose just yet, ’kay? I don’t think either of us is ready for that.”
I’m laughing too, and it feels like I’ve just chugged a bottle of champagne. There’s this lightness inside me, and it fills the air between us.
I’m a dude, and I would not normally use the word giddy. But right now?
Yeah. I’m giddy as hell.
“Fine. No proposal tonight,” I say. “So, what’s next then?”
She smiles up at me and her smile puts the sun to shame. “Let’s start with an epic summer. And then…take it from there.”
“What?” I pull back as if horrified. “Smurfette, are you trying to tell me you don’t have our future all planned out?”
She rolls her eyes at my teasing, her lips still curved up in a grin. “I thought you were done with Smurfette.”
“Pshh.” I pull her in tight. “I’ll never be done teasing you, baby. You should know that by now.”
She shakes her head with feigned exasperation.
“I’m the bad influence.” I point to myself, like I’m lecturing her for real. “And you’re the goody-two-shoes who’ll make sure I don’t get too far out of line. Everyone has a job in this relationship, Smurfette. I hope you don’t think you can just slack off now that we’re officially together.”
She’s laughing as she loops her arms around my neck. “Zack?”
“Yeah?”
“Shut up and kiss me.”
I grin and lean in. “Yes, ma’am.”
EPILOGUE
One Year Later…
Bailey
The sun’sbright overhead as I lie out on the little beach area by the lake. My eyes are shut, and my limbs are heavy as the early summer sun warms my skin.
And I am so freakin’ chill. Seriously, I think I may be more relaxed than I’ve ever been.
Why? Because life is perfect.
And by that I mean, it’s not perfect at all. But it’s close enough for me.
First of all, it’s done. High school isover.I’m still wrapping my head around this fact. Considering everything that went down last summer, senior year ended up being a blast.
