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talking about.”
    “Really? I didn’t think it was nothin’,” Branch chimed in. He must’ve heard us because he was standing beside me now. “So, my kissin’ you was nothin’?” He was giving me that little sideways grin of his.
    “I better get to class. Can’t be late again! Mr. Kennett will kick my butt.” Callie backed away and was pointing at me mouthing “later”. Crap, I was gonna have to talk to her about this, but first I should probably talk to the boy standing right in front of me.
    “So, nothin’ huh?” he asked again as he took my hand in his. Was he really holding my hand? A kiss and hand holding all in the same week? Whoa.
    “Maybe we should do it again. Just so I can show you that it wasn’t nothin’.” He leaned in and started to put his lips on mine when I heard something crash to the ground in the kitchen.
    “Um, we aren’t supposed to do that at school, Branch.” I was walking out the door, when I turned around and looked him in the eye. “It wasn’t nothing by the way. It was my first real kiss.”

~Chapter 4~
    Sixteen Years Old
    Suzanna~
    “You going to this party tonight at Branch’s house?” I asked Cade as he came around the corner to my front step.
    “I was plannin’ on it. How ‘bout you, Suzy Q?”
    I hated it when he called me that. It just started a few months ago. We had driven into town with some friends to grab a burger and Cade just realized, even though we had eaten at this place a zillion times, that the dairy queen was called Suzy Q’s. From that moment on he had called me Suzy Q. That boy could be so damn annoying.
    “I’m thinking about it. Branch wants me to go with him,” I mumbled as I fiddled with the lace trim on my peach colored t-shirt. I knew Cade wasn’t real fond of Branch, but I liked him. He was cute, he liked me, and he was one heck of a kisser. He told me I was pretty and he looked at me like he actually thought I was.
    “You’re gonna go with him ? Really?” Cade asked as he jumped up the few steps on my porch to stand in front of me. He ran his hand through his blonde hair and his bright green eyes were glistening as the sunlight hit them. It made them look like green ice.
    Cade was the most handsome boy I had ever seen. He had a strong jaw and perfect nose. His muscles were accentuated by the farmers tan he always sported. He always wore old t-shirts with the sleeves cut out. One of my favorite pastimes was to do my homework out in the barn while Cade worked and I tried to catch a glimpse of those muscles. (Sure, homework, that’s what I was doing!) I loved it when his forehead would have that layer of sweat on it and the muscles in his arms were strained while he bucked hay in the stalls. He was just sex on a stick. If the body didn’t get you, that damn deep voice with the country drawl would do it every time.
    I could feel my face getting hot. I needed to quit thinking about Cade like that. He was my best friend, not my boyfriend. Branch was my boyfriend, well kinda sorta. I couldn’t talk to Cade about Branch and I didn’t want to hear about his girlfriends, (plural), either.
    Callie wasn’t real fond of Branch, either. She would harp at me about him and then ask why in the world Cade and I weren’t a couple. She just couldn’t comprehend that a guy and girl could be friends without wanting to rip each other’s clothes off. That was absolutely ridiculous. Of course we could be friends, and of course I wouldn’t mind seeing Cade without his clothes on.
    Holy crap…I couldn’t even believe that thought popped into my head, but if I was being honest, it was happening a lot recently. Fricking puberty had hit me hard and I was definitely seeing a man when I looked at Cade Walker. I saw a man when I looked at Branch, too, but he just didn’t make me feel the things in my nether regions that Cade did.
    Branch and I had been a couple since that first kiss. We hadn’t really gotten serious until the past few months,