was strong, and it was nice to feel her grip.
She was sitting next to me dripping wet, with her head drooping down. She looked so pretty I wanted to kiss her right there, with all the idiots crashing into the pool around us. Instead, I put my hand over hers. She didn’t say or do anything. She kept looking down into the deep end. Finally, I decided to say something.
“Hey, Alice,” I said, “We’ve got the whole summer ahead of us. I think it could be a great summer. What do you think?“
Very slowly, she turned her head up to me. The sad look was beginning to turn into something else, kind of a half-smile or something. God, she was so pretty when she smiled. She had the smoothest skin I’d ever seen.
“Me too, Lupo. I think it will be great,” she said. And she moved her hand so that our fingers locked, and she squeezed a little. Her lips were just hanging there, so soft- looking. I would’ve kissed her but some asshole A-bombed right next to us and got us soaked.
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*an excerpt from The Wolf Moon