More Happy Than Not by Silvera Adam

Author:Silvera, Adam [Silvera, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Young Adult Literature
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2015-04-03T00:57:09+00:00

4

REMEMBER THAT TIME

Instead of manning up, I’ve been standing outside in the pouring rain for the past twenty minutes under Genevieve’s window. A cab with an ad for the Leteo Institute drives through a puddle and soaks my jeans. I really, really wish Genevieve could just forget me.

And I really, really wish I had another pair of pants right now.

I finally go upstairs and leave my sneakers outside the door. I almost slide across her hallway in my wet socks but she holds my hand and keeps me steady. I almost come up with a bullshit excuse about how we should stay out in the living room so I don’t get her bed wet, when I actually have other reasons not to go in there, but she leads and I follow.

“The flea market is totally closed today,” Genevieve says. She helps me out of my hoodie and pinches my nipple through my white shirt. It tickles but I barely laugh. “Bright side of having a terrible father is he’s never around.” We sit on her bed. She kisses me and I know I should push her off but I don’t. “I love you,” she says, and before there’s an awkward silence where I don’t say it back, she adds, “Remember that time your soaking-wet jeans ruined my bed?”

The game has lost its spark, and maybe it’s because of my low spirits, but it’s also very likely because it’s kind of, sort of, definitely ridiculous to ask me to remember something that is happening right now.

I’m being unfair.

I sit up, cross my legs, hold her hands, and play along. “Remember that time we bought water guns last summer and I chased you around Fort Wille Park? And you kept calling time out and sprayed me whenever I stopped?”

She sits up and tangles her legs in mine. “Remember when we kept riding the subway back and forth last February because it was too cold to go outside?”

“Which was stupid because it was even colder when we finally got off at one in the morning,” I say, recalling how the cold was killing us, me especially since I had wrapped my jacket around her. “Remember that time we were writing each other messages in a crossword puzzle during study hall and it got taken away? I lost the evidence on how you misspelled tornado with an e.”

Genevieve punches me. “Remember that time we texted each other using only song titles?”

“And how about that time it started raining when we were rowing the boat in Central Park and I started panicking?”

Genevieve laughs. While playing this game might be even worse than being intimate with her, it’s both the right and wrong time to stroll down memory lane. “Remember that time we time-traveled together on my birthday and you told me you love me?” She climbs into my lap and feels up my arms.

We look into each other’s eyes and when she leans in to kiss me, I let her because this will be the last kiss we share whether she knows it or not.

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