Bye Gymnastics, Hello Boarding School

Chapter 10

            He yawned. I wondered whether he would do the conventional yawn and stretch move. I felt his arm around me and smiled like a little girl.

            Rayna fished out a party pack of marshmallows out from her gigantic purse she obsessively carries around and everyone started roasting marshmallows by the campfire.

            Jeremy was already treating me like his girlfriend, even though we haven’t gone out on a private date yet. He took one marshmallow roasting stick and stuck two marshmallows on. I was about to take a stick for myself when he stopped me and winked. He was already acting like the perfect boyfriend.

            Mia and Max were cuddling under a blanket, he was kissing her neck. She eyed me and wriggled her eyebrows. I made silly kissy faces back to her as she and Max started making out again.

            Jokingly, Jeremy mocked them too. First he jokingly pecked my cheek. Then I wanted to reciprocate by pecking his cheek when he faced me and my lips landed on his.

            Then, it wasn’t mocking anymore.

            It wasn’t the aggressive and horny kinds of make out you see in frat parties, nor was it just an innocent and cute Eskimo kiss. It was just passionate and absolutely perfect.

            “Jeremy!” Rayna yelled.

            Both of us stopped kissing and darted towards Rayna.

            “Your marshmallows are past burnt,” she laughed.

            I laughed, “We got carried away.”

            Jeremy winked at me, discarding the burnt ones and replacing them with new and puffy ones.

            “You’re amazing, you know that?” I asked.

            “Ditto,” he winked at me.

            When the marshmallow was nicely roasted, he let it cool a little before he fed me.

            “It’s good!” I said with a mouthful of marshmallow.

            He buried his face in my hair and laughed, “You’re adorable.”

            After the campfire, Jeremy walked me back to my dorm, kissed me goodnight and said, “Let’s go swimming tomorrow morning.”

            I crossed my arms, “So you can show off?”

            “Come on, I watched you train for 2 months. Whenever coach isn’t around, you showed off so much!”

            “Did not!” I scoffed.

            He eyed me playfully.

            “Okay, maybe just a little.”

            “So we’re on for tomorrow?”

            “Of course!” I said pecking his cheek.

            “I’ve waited two months for you,” I muttered.

            “I’ve waited my entire life for you,” he said, kissing me on the mouth, lingering by as our noses touched.

            I leaned in to peck him on the lips once more before I finally closed the door.