Satellite by Nikki Chartier

Author:Nikki Chartier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, young adult romance, spring break, teen romance, teen love, ya romance, boyband, teen drama, boy band
Publisher: Nicole Chartier

The silence in the car is a bit awkward, and I think this is the first time we’ve had a speechless moment between us. Dinner was incredible. The flirting was even better. I’m slightly sad that I can’t blast social media with the adorable picture of Noah and me by the shooting stars wall. I asked the waiter to take it for me, and it’s possibly my favorite picture of all time.

Now I’m not quite sure I’m ready to go back to the hotel. Fortunately, I don’t think Noah is either.

He leans back in the driver’s seat and rests his head back. “You want to go for a walk on the beach or something?” he asks. “I’m hoping if I stay out late enough, everyone will be asleep when we get back.”

“The beach is perfect,” I say, glancing over from the passenger seat.

Noah pulls out of the parking lot and drives in the opposite direction of the hotel. He doesn’t say anything, but he shoots a smile my way, and I can’t help wondering if he’ll kiss me tonight. I’m officially living in a pop song.

Moments like this are why you don’t need to be on non-speaking terms with the girl who was once your best friend. I don’t think Alyssa – or anyone else I know – could give me sound advice in this situation. It’s not every day that you’re in the passenger seat of a car with Noah Winters of Spaceships Around Saturn at the wheel, driving you to the beach at night.

I’m the girl who always changed the station before the chorus of their song even had a chance to spill from the speakers. I’ve known him for a total of what, four days now, and I’m flirting about the mermaid on his ass and hoping he’ll kiss me.

Actually, I know exactly what Alyssa would say right now. “Marisol, this makes you a grade-A slut. Please don’t upgrade to whore.” And then she’d snatch him out from under me, you know, as a favor to keep me from going over the edge.

“You’re quiet over there,” Noah says. He reaches across the armrest for my hand. “What’s going through your mind?”

“What Alyssa would say if she knew where I was right now,” I answer, not exactly lying.

“And what would the unoriginal bitch say about this situation?” he asks. He shoots me a smirk before glancing back at the dead street.

“She’d ask if you were a good kisser,” I say, dropping the bait.

The car slows to a stop. Noah parks in the center of the street and looks at me in the glow of the streetlamps. Shadows move across his face, slowly and beautifully like a phantom ballerina dancing along his jaw line.

“And you’d tell her what?” he asks.

“That I wouldn’t know because I haven’t kissed you,” I say. My heart quivers in my chest, sort of like the whole butterflies in your stomach feeling, but much more intense.

He leans closer. “Well, maybe you need to fix that, eh?”

I swallow my nerves and meet him halfway across the armrest between us.

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