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57| Testing. One. Two. Three.

"What?" Travis' eyes widened. "Who told you this?" He assessed her face for any sign of a prank or joke.

"Nobody." Zoey replied innocently. "I feel different these days. I feel things I never felt before, especially when I am around you. All this warmth and gooeyness, it can't be normal, right? I saw in a TV show that a girl was experiencing changes in personality and she had a tumor in her frontal lobe."

She stared at him for a response. He blinked twice, with face completely blank and then suddenly, he started laughing. Lowering his head, he hid his face in the crook on her neck and laughed against her skin.

Zoey remained still and confused about what was happening and why he was laughing. She might die and he was finding it funny. "Travis, why the hell are you laughing?" She growled.

After laughing for some five minutes, he lifted his head and stared into her eyes once again.  "You don't have a disease." He said.

"I have." Zoey replied.

"No. You just like me, the same way I like you." Travis said and the last part made her excited.

"You like me?" She repeated his words.

Travis didn't speak for a moment and kept looking at her. His weight was crushing her but she didn't care. She liked having him this close to her.

Not waiting for an answer, she asked further, "So what's the treatment of this condition?"

A corner of Travis' lips lifted up. "There is no treatment for it. We can date but that's not possible."

"Why" Zoey asked.

"Because our parents won't be happy with that." Travis replied.

"Fuck them." She said and extended her hand to trace his cheeks. He had a thin stubble covering the hard contours of his face.

"Zoey!" Travis glared at her and pulled himself up to sitting position.

"Sorry. I forgot some of us like our parents." Zoey muttered our breath and sat up.

"Besides, you yourself told me that you don't want a relationship." He reminded her.

"Yeah, I did." She said. It was true; she had never felt the need to be with one person before Travis.

"Hmm." He replied.

After thinking about this situation for some time, Zoey started again. "We can do beta testing."

"What?" He asked in confusion.

"You know, like they do in case of a new software. We can date without telling anyone, just to see if we are compatible." She proposed.

"Are you serious?" Travis asked.

"Pretty serious." Zoey nodded.

"Zoey, we are so different and--"

"Yeah, yeah. We are different. I am rich. You are poor. Your mother works for me. Blah, blah, blah. We like each other Travis and if we resist this, we will be miserable for the rest of senior year." Zoey tried to persuade him.

"Zoey, it's not like buying a cereal. We can't just discuss it one minute and then do it the next. I have to decide first." Travis groaned.

"Let me help you decide then." She said and gripping his cheeks, pulled him forwards for a kiss. He gasped and that gave her way to enter her tongue into his mouth. The kiss made her dizzy and she feared she would fall, even though they were sitting on a bed. To avoid falling, she moved on his lap and continued exploring his mouth until they both were breathless.