New Year's Kiss by Lee Matthews

Author:Lee Matthews [Matthews, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2020-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

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I was not dressed for skiing, so I went back up to our room to change, and quickly checked off one more item from the list: Strike up a conversation with a stranger. (Thanks to my big leap on the omelet line with Carina.) Look at that. I hadn’t meant to go in any kind of order, but I’d checked off the first four tasks on the list anyway. The next one was: Make out with a guy whose last name I don’t know. I blushed and shoved the list away. Not quite ready to think about that one just yet. In fact, if I was going in order, that definitely should have been last.

The thing was, I wasn’t much of a kissing person. Or a dating person. Or a person who attracted members of the opposite sex. I’d been kissed before. At a party at my friend Isabel’s last year, we’d played a fairly lame game of spin the bottle where I’d landed on Alex Fletcher, which made basically everyone jealous because he’s the hottest guy in my class. We’d kissed for exactly sixty seconds, and it had been completely underwhelming. All slobbery and awkward. Then, this past fall, I’d gone out with Frankie Pintaro for a whole month, and we’d done some stuff. Nothing super interesting, though. He was sweet and cute, but I didn’t have huge feelings for him or anything, which made the whole thing kind of meh.

So, I wasn’t exactly experienced, and I wasn’t one of those girls who could just see a cute guy at a party, make out with him, and move on. I had nothing against the girls who could do that. I just wasn’t built that way. I was either too shy or too tense or too type A, I guess, for random smooching. I wanted a connection with someone before I kissed him.

Like the connection I had with Christopher. Had he really been about to kiss me yesterday? The more time passed, the more certain I was that I’d imagined the whole thing. But I really wanted to kiss him. Unfortunately, he wouldn’t count for the list, since I already knew his last name.

It seemed I was going to have to get over this whole connection thing. At least I would if I was going to complete my list.

The door to the room opened just as I was pulling on my ski pants, and I gave a yelp.

“It’s just me!” Lauren said, but closed the door quickly. “Sorry. I figured I’d check if you needed help.”

“Getting dressed? I’ve kind of been doing that on my own for a while now.” I zipped up the hidden zipper and tucked my base layer turtleneck in.

“No, I mean…Damon’s totally into you. You know that, right?”

My body heat skyrocketed so fast, I was super glad for the sweat-wicking fabric I’d just put on. “What? No, he’s not. What are you talking about?”

I went into the bathroom to slather sunblock on my face, which already looked sunburned thanks to all the embarrassment.

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