I Kissed The Boy Next Door

“Let me ask you something,” he said.

I waited, my insides twirling around. I’d do about anything for him not to be mad.

“What if next time you let me kiss you?”

The next time. That there’d be a next time meant he wasn’t all that mad.

“Would that be okay?” he asked.

I swallowed hard. “That would be … fine.”

“Just fine?” he asked.

Better than fine. It’d be heavenly. Amazing. Perfect. I ran out of adjectives.

“No, more than fine.”

He smiled and took hold of the ends of my hair, rolling it between his fingers. “Okay then. ’Til next time.”

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Jackson Phillips moved in next door to Lucy MacKenzie, bringing with him a childhood memory of summer came and a dare. Kiss Jackson Phillips.

But what a fourteen-year-old would do to impress her friends changes in three years. Plus, Jackson isn’t the same as he was. He’s taller, more handsome … and far wiser.

Clean Reads for teens by best-selling author, SUZANNE D. WILLIAMS. A novella of 24,000 words.