Only One Boy by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Maggie Dallen

ELEVEN

Celia

* * *

I feel like death.

I’m pretty sure I look worse.

But we make the train the next morning, and even get two seats together for the long ride into Manhattan.

The only good thing about having stayed up all night talking is that we’re both too exhausted to talk much on the train. We spend most of it sleeping instead.

And if it’s still weird to me that I’m now comfortable sleeping with my head on a unicorn-sweatshirt pillow in Heath’s lap, I’m determined not to think about it. His hand is heavy on my shoulder, and it’s nice. It’s like a weighted blanket. And between his warmth, the sound of his steady breathing, and the rocking of the train as we head toward Manhattan, I start to drift off quickly.

Which is good because I’m desperate for sleep. Right now I need sleep more than I need to unwind all the thoughts spiraling through my head over what transpired the night before.

When I wake a while later, I feel semi-human again. I sit up and stretch, trying to be quiet because Heath is dead to the world beside me. My heart does an erratic tap dance against my rib cage at the sight of him like this.

You’d think after all this alone time, I’d be over it right? Like, how much time does one need to spend with one’s crush before one is inoculated against these kinds of side effects?

Apparently for me, twenty-four hours isn’t enough.

Not even kissing my crush has made me less aware of him physically.

I sneak another glance over at his absurdly hot profile—seriously, who looks so hot while passed out on a train?

Heath does, that’s who. He’s got a little stubble from not shaving, and his hair is all mussed bedhead. His straight nose and strong jaw are basically showing off right now at this angle. And his lips…

I swallow hard as I look away.

I can’t be thinking about his lips right now. Because lip-thoughts will lead to kiss-thoughts and there is no place for that in my brain at the moment. Maybe later I’ll have some peace and quiet to replay that epic kiss and make sense of all the feelings it stirred up in me.

Maybe sometime after that I’ll even be able to put it into words.

And maybe at some point in the future, I’ll actually figure out what it means.

Or if it means anything at all.

I glance over at Heath again and this time I studiously ignore the wild fluttering in my chest. I smooth down my skirt and fold the ugly sweatshirt in my lap.

Later. There’ll be time to sort through these feelings later.

Right now it’s more important than ever that I keep my priorities straight. And my priorities do not include boys. Not even the one beside me who may or may not have been the star of every silly romantic fantasy I’ve harbored since I was eight years old.

Nope. The only thing that matters right now is getting to the hotel in time for the solo presentations.

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