Nathan by Melissa Storm & Melissa McClone

Author:Melissa Storm & Melissa McClone [Storm, Melissa & McClone, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942771616
Amazon: 1942771614
Publisher: Partridge & Pear Press
Published: 2018-02-23T00:00:00+00:00

Ten

Once Jazz and Nathan started kissing, they couldn’t stop—all night on the dance floor, afterward in his car, the next morning when they both snuck out of their houses to be together again.

“Why did I wait so long to do this when kissing you is the most perfect thing ever?” Nathan ran his hands through her hair and pulled Jazz in to put his lips on hers again.

Kissing him was perfect, and everything she’d dreamed about. But she still had to point out the answer to his question. “You kissed plenty of other girls.”

“Yeah, but it wasn’t like this.”

“I’m glad to hear it.” She knew it. She’d always known it, and now Nathan knew it, too. Bliss.

They exchanged more kisses, hidden in their own private nook on Nathan’s back porch.

“How long?” she asked when they came up for air.

“Forever and ever,” he said with a love-drunk grin.

“No, I mean how long have you… felt this way?”

“A part of me always has, I guess. But I’ve wanted to ask you out ever since your birthday last year.”

Last year? Last year!

They could have had all that time together. They could have been kissing each other every day for the last three-hundred some days, and yet he’d held back. She couldn’t believe the two of them had secretly yearned for each other for so long.

“When you told me you liked Bethany instead?”

“I was going to tell you, but I got nervous. Scared you’d shoot me down.”

“Oh, Nate. You are so, so stupid.” But so was she. If only she’d been braver…

“Yeah, stupid for you,” he said with a playful snap at her bottom lip. “How long have you liked me?”

“Since eighth grade.”

His mouth dropped open. “And you never said anything.”

“How could I?”

“You could have. Should have.”

She shook her head. “But you didn’t like me until last year.”

“I’d like to think I’d have been smart enough to recognize a good thing when she’s throwing herself at me.”

“Uh huh.” If that was the case, then they would have gotten married in third grade when she’d come running to his house for safe-keeping, when her parents’ relationship had officially ended and hers had just started to turn into something deeper. “So what now? What next?”

“Well, I keep kissing you.”

“And then?”

“We graduate, have a beautiful summer together, then college, and just life.”

College. She hadn’t told him about Burton College. Going there could change her life in so many ways. Give her a future.

But then there was this gorgeous boy before her, the same boy she’d loved forever and a day. How could she have any future apart from him now that they were finally together?

Burton would open doors for her, help her to get a good career. But what use would that be if she wasn’t happy?

She’d rather have love than money, be poor and happy than rich and broken-hearted. Besides, she’d always been poor-ish. She was used to being on a budget, making do with what she had, and going without. She’d also always had Nathan and couldn’t picture any version of a life without him and his kisses.

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