Cuffing New Year's Resolutions by C.M. Kars

Author:C.M. Kars [C.M. Kars]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C.M. Kars
Published: 2022-06-16T00:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

“I didn’t run away,” I say, denying it to the very end. “I went out for some air.” And then disappeared, but who’s asking?

Noah cants his head forward and rubs at his forehead as if I’m the one frustrating him. “And then you didn’t come back. By the very definition of the action, you ran away.”

“Going out for fresh air and then deciding that it was too cold to hang around and then deciding to take a taxi home is not running away. That’s a sequence of logical events, right there, Noah. Logical. Events.” I punch my hand for each word, giving it more emphasis.

He looks like he might want to throttle me, but he keeps mashing his lips together, trying to hide a smile. I don’t tell him that the feeling is mutual, but I glare at him all the same.

“Evie, can’t you just talk to me for once?” Noah sighs, leaning his head back so it elongates his throat, and I think he knows what that does to me, the bastard.

I cross my arms over my chest, ignoring the rapid beat of my heart. Now is not the time to have heart palpitations, absolutely not the time to be having some of those.

“I am talking to you. We’re talking. Pushing out air and turning them into words, right?”

He groans, runs both hands through his hair and tugs.

I’m having a great time.

“You’re doing this shit on purpose,” he accuses, but I’d rather not talk about my predilection to rile him up. He’s not going to be here for that much longer anyway—Mrs. Bristol’s coming back, and then Noah’s going to move right out of my life, like he’s always wanted to do.

How much longer is he going to stick around when there’s absolutely no reason to?

He’ll move onto his next adventure, find somebody other than me to kiss in the middle of a club while the bass-boom of the music pummels us from all sides even though we’re in a bubble of our own making.

Noah will leave, and that’s just the way things are going to be. It’s not like I’m going to beg him to stay.

So why do I keep feeling like I want him to stick around, like I want him to choose me, to choose this place over any other adventure he could go on?

Noah’s been a big help, for sure. I can admit that, at least to myself. I’m not going to say it out loud, though. No way, no how.

“I’m not doing anything on purpose. We kissed. It’s not a big deal. It lasted for like a few nanoseconds. It’s not like we stood there, wasting our time making out,” I babble, waving my hands around, trying to paint the picture even though I am very sure we both know what we’re talking about.

I can see it so clearly in my head, and when I look at Noah’s face, I know he’s thinking about it, too.

It was just a little, teeny, tiny kiss. That’s

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