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kiss?"
    "I imagined a kiss. I thought you might drag me off to a dark corner where you could show me how a real man kissed a girl."
    "Don't tempt me, Meredith."
    "What?"
    "You know what . I can't play along. Your brother would mur-der me."
    I shrugged shyly and stared up at him through my lashes. "It's my birthday, Zack."
    "It's my birthday too."
    "Even better. We both deserve a birthday kiss."
    "I thought you've already had yours."
    "That one didn't count."
    Zack laughed. "If what you were doing back there doesn't count as kissing, I'd be curious to see what your definition of kissing is."
    "That's not the reason it doesn't count," I said. "That was definitely a kiss, it just didn't count because I didn't want to be kissing him. Zack stood there and took me in. His expression was slightly puzzled.
    I shamelessly stared at his perfect, chiseled face. His dark brown hair was almost black in the club lighting, but his blue eyes reflected what little light there was. They took my breath away. I did what any girl in her right mind would do. I reached up and grabbed the back of his head, pulling it down so our mouths could meet in a kiss. My lips hit his harder than I expected, but that's because he was giving me no resistance whatsoever. He backed me into a nearby wall, and stood over me continuing the kiss the entire time we moved.
    "If we get caught, I'm telling him you started it," Zack said.
    "Who cares?" I said. I felt reckless, and I wanted him to quit talking and keep kissing me.
    " It's still three months, and your brother can not find out."
    No sooner had he said it than I heard my brother's voice coming from behind Zack. "What the hell Zack?"
    I closed my eyes and let out a defeated breath. The sound of my sigh made Zack take his eyes off my brother and look down at me. "Go ahead and tell him it's all my fault," I whispered. "No doubt he assumes it's true anyway." Zack turned toward Collin, leaving me protected at his back. He put a hand out to stop Collin from advancing on us. The gesture made me feel like there was about to be a fight.
    "What's it matter, Collin?" I said, walking around Zack and standing between the two of them. They were so much bigger than me it was almost comical. I wasn't intimidated. I stared up at Collin with utter defiance in my eyes. "I tricked him into kissing me because it's my birthday and I wanted to be kissed— and I like Zack, so you can just mind your own business." Collin looked at Zack.
    They stared each other down for a few tense seconds before Collin spoke. He never took his eyes off Zack. "Keep your hands off her."
    I stomped on my brother's foot to get his attention. "Shit Meredith, what's your problem?"
    "My problem is that I'm in my twenties and you're still acting like you have some sort of authority over me, Collin. I wanted to kiss Zack, so I did it. It was really good, too. I definitely think I'll do it again."
    "You're not going to do it again." He shifted his gaze to Zack. "She's not going to do it again, right?"
    Zack held us his hands in surrender as he scooted past Collin headed back toward the dance floor. "Whatever, boss. You need to chill a little bit, though."
    And just like that Zack was gone.
    My freaking older brother! I could have just screamed! Collin had the nerve to look perturbed, like he'd been inconvenienced. "What in a mother fucking thousand universes makes you think you have the right to tell me who I can and can't kiss Collin?"
    There was a few seconds of silence. "Not Zack, Meredith." Collin was looking at me with such a sweet, sincere expression , and doing a good job of it too. "I know you're all grown up, and I'm not trying to keep up with your every move. I just love you and I care about your feelings, and well, just please no Zack, okay?" He was saying it with such tenderness that it was hard to keep hating him, even though he humiliated me in front of Zack.
    I looked back at him with what I hoped was an equal amount of sincerity. "I'm just