21 Stolen Kisses by Lauren Blakely

Author:Lauren Blakely [Blakely, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Young Adult, Romance
ISBN: 9781619634091
Google: Ng25BgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00TQSOQMK
Barnesnoble: B00TQSOQMK
Goodreads: 18458117
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2015-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

Our Stolen Kisses

I’d never forget how it felt to say those words. To be in our place. In love with you, in love with us, in love with our secret, with the island we were building, keeping out the whole wide world.

There with you, I was … safe.

Chapter Twenty

Kennedy

Now here I am again. Safe again.

And I don’t want it to come crashing down this time. Not when I am so close to the finish line I can see it. Not when my get-out-of-jail-free card is within reach. I’ll be eighteen in mere days. I’ll be at NYU in three months. I just need to get through June, July, and August.

Then I will be free of my parents. Once I’m in college, I can do what I want.

When I get out of bed Sunday morning, I take off Noah’s orange shirt, fold it carefully, and stuff it at the bottom of my backpack to return it to him later today. I text him: Shirt’s off. Giving it back to you today.

He replies seconds later. off? What’s on then?

We banter like that for the next ten minutes, then he tells me he’ll be thinking of me when he heads to the library shortly for an event, and I’m sure you’d need an industrial-strength mop to wipe the ridiculous grin off my face, especially when I tell him I’ll see him later, since we’re going to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this afternoon. My mother never goes to Brooklyn. My father doesn’t either. No one who knows me will be there.

I hear my dad walk down the hall, so I click over to the home screen on my phone, then double-check to make sure my backpack is zipped up. Not that he’d ever look through my bag, but once burned, twice shy. I so don’t need my dad seeing a sliver of orange fabric and then freaking out again. I shower and get dressed, counting down the hours until I see Noah this afternoon. As I turn off the hair dryer, my phone blasts out its ringtone for Amanda.

I answer quickly. “Do you miss me?”

“So much.”

“What are you doing?”

“I’m bored out of my mind. My mom is working—what else is new? My dad is out having coffee with a friend who may have some job leads for him, he claims. As if.” I wince knowing where her dad really is. Coffee with a friend is coffee with my mom. It’s a gateway meeting, an entree into something more. “So I decided since you’re going to prom with Lane, I need to meet him,” Amanda announces.

Crap. Prom. Lane.

I’d totally forgotten about that. It had completely vacated my brain. How am I going to go to prom with Lane when I have a secret boyfriend again?

“Sure,” I say, noncommittally.

“Hello? Kennedy, you are going to prom. This is a big deal. This is on our list of top five things that suck about an all-girls’ school and you found a loophole to one of the five. You get to go to prom.

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