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mother was upstairs and I was waiting for Chris to get dressed so we could go to football practice. It was like eighty degrees outside, the sun was shining like a laser beam and I went outside to wait for him. You had a yellow tank top and these little green shorts that could barely cover your assets so to speak. Your hair was out straight down to the middle of your back. Almost like it is now."
    He remembers my hair, most guys wouldn't. I remember those shorts, my parents never let me wear them outside of the house or if we had visitors at the house. I knew he was coming over that day so I purposely put them on, ha. The mind of a thirteen-year-old girl.
    "You weren't wearing any shoes and you were hosing down a lawn chair. Standing there watching you kind of opened my eyes, it made me think of you in a different way I hadn't thought possible."
    "Is that why you kissed me?" I turn my head against the headrest to look at Nick's profile. My God, he is a beautiful man from every angle, down right sexy as hell. The car stops at a red light, and he turns his head and looks at me.
    "That kiss wasn't supposed to happen. You didn't say anything but I had the feeling you were upset with me. I wanted to find out if everything between us was cool."
    "We started talking and you said 'man it's hot out here!'" It was hot that day.
    "Then you turned the hose on me and asked me if I needed cooling off."
    "You were shocked that I did that to you. You started chasing me around the yard. You couldn't catch me because of the mud and water. We were laughing, then you finally caught me when you grabbed me by the waist. It was so slippery we fell on the grass and you landed on top of me hard."
    The light changes from red to green and we start moving again. We are almost at the restaurant.
    "I was scared I hurt you. I kept asking if you were okay."
    "After the initial shock of getting the wind knocked out of me I started laughing and you looked down into my eyes. You looked so worried I stopped laughing and told you I was fine."
    "You were smiling, I looked at you for the first time and thought, wow, she really is pretty."
    "So…I wasn't pretty before?"
    He turns his head, looks at me with a boyish grin and turns back to the road.
    "No, I didn't say that. I saw a couple of things that day that I didn't notice before. It's like I had shades on and someone pulled them up." The car stops and he looks at me with those stunningly beautiful eyes that make me forget how to breathe. "I never knew the view was so beautiful. That day at your house we were so close I could feel your heart beating against my chest. You put your lips against mine and I kissed you. You opened your mouth and that was it, I couldn't think about anything else but the feel of your tongue against mine soft and wet, you drew me into your mouth, made this little moaning sound and you felt so good, I was lost. Until I heard Chris call my name and I pulled you up with me."
    We both laugh at the memory.
    "I knew if he saw me on top of you doing what we were doing, he would have kicked my ass. I would have let him. If I ever deserved my ass beaten, it was that day, I deserved it."
    "No, you didn't, you weren't forcing me to do anything I didn't want to do; it was just a kiss."
    "That's not the point. You almost got an education that day, shit, a little longer and you would have graduated with a master's in education in the grass and we would have both been fucked. You were my friend's little sister, I was supposed to help him keep the guys off you not be one of the guys on you. I made sure I didn't touch you after that, I didn't want to give you the wrong idea about our relationship."
    Believe me I know. You wouldn't touch me for months after that kiss. Nick parks the car in a parking spot, looking at his watch.
    "We're early. Let's wait here until it's time to go in."
    "I don't know. Maybe we should wait inside." I look around the parking lot and across the street at the entrance of the