Just Friends: YA Contemporary Romance by Elana Johnson

Author:Elana Johnson [Johnson, Elana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AEJ Creative Works
Published: 2017-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

My mouth got drier and drier the closer we got to Jade’s house. Her porch had nothing to conceal us, and I didn’t want to give Drew any ammunition against me. She’d bring this night up every chance she got—and she wasn’t above blackmail. I didn’t want Holly—I cut the thought off.

Jade snuggled into my side, and in the darkness of the way-back of the van, I skated my fingers up and down her arm. In front of me, I heard Lance talking to Holly but I didn’t know what he was saying. I heard the radio, but it was too quiet to pick out the song. Jade whispered my name, and I dipped my head so I could hear her.

“I had a great time,” she murmured, right before she started kissing my ear. I turned my head and found her mouth with mine. The van seemed to speed up, and before I knew it, we arrived at Jade’s.

I walked her to the door and kissed her again, not caring that I had four witnesses. With every stroke of her mouth against mine, I wanted to shed the Molasses Mitch skin and move full-steam ahead.

After only a minute, Omar honked. I waved at him to freaking wait without removing my mouth from Jade’s. They could wait. They could wait all night, because right now I was kissing my girlfriend.

Finally, Jade pulled away. “Well, that wasn’t so slow, Mr. Houser.” She licked her lips and wouldn’t look at me.

“I’ll call you tomorrow, okay?” I felt dangerous, as if this night was the beginning of a new Mitch Houser. “Goodnight,” I said, and returned to the van. Every single person was staring at me, even Holly.

“Classy with the horn, loser,” I said to Omar as I climbed in.

“Mitch,” Drew said, “I had no idea you were—”

“Shut up,” I growled.

Lance closed the door and started laughing. “You watch one of those condom videos, dude? Because that was—” He gestured from the van to Jade’s front door several times. “That was like, hot.”

“Shut up,” I said again, folding myself into the backseat and staring out the window. Holly hadn’t looked away from me, and I swung my eyes to her. “What?”

She flinched and shook her head. She looked like she might cry, but I didn’t see any tears before she whipped around. Lance lifted his arm and put it over her shoulders in a total boyfriend move. He ducked his head and whispered comforts in Holly’s ear. I resumed my watch out the window, feeling so unlike myself but in a weird, good way.

At home, I went in through the garage so I didn’t have to watch my sister kiss Omar. I called “I’m home,” down the hall to my parents’ bedroom and then high-tailed it upstairs. I didn’t need to give them an account of my date, but Drew would. She probably wanted to.

I stood at my window, which was luckily positioned above the porch so I couldn’t see any making out, and looked into the night.

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