Chapter Six
This time there was no car to honk as it drove by with its bright lights forcing them to jump apart. She did not pull away from him and there was no big decision to make. And there was no still, small voice in the back of her head telling her to wait, that it was wrong.
No, it was just right this time.
But Allie wasn't going to let him have complete control. She leaned forward unexpectedly, pecking him on his blue-tinted lips, a butterfly kiss. She smiled, not at just his surprised face but as she remembered her butterfly underwear she had been sure would make Justin fall in love with her.
She'd escaped his hand and had been able to pull away, but when the other came to rest on her waist and draw her close, she felt as if she were frozen. His face neared hers yet again, and this time her eyes slid shut when she felt his breath on her face.
The good feeling that she felt in her stomach when his lips touched hers made her want to do something, though she didn't know what she could do. At first it was another butterfly kiss, soft and barely touching, but soon it deepened into more.
Thank you, Lord. I don't know why I ever doubted you. You had a plan for me all along, didn't you? You were in control the entire time, even when I felt as if my whole entire world was spinning out of my hands. Why can't I ever remember that the whole world is in Your hands?
When Justin pulled back he said, "You know, Allie, you have been quite difficult."
"Huh!" Allie replied in indignation. "As if I've been the difficult one!"
She was about to argue even more when his lips came to hers again in one quick kiss before Kristen and the rest of the youth group realized that anything had happened.
Allie promised herself she would throw away the Oreos and call Tia Christie with the good news the minute she got home. And as Justin gave her a gentle hug before she got in her car at the church parking lot that night, one thought dominated her mind:
I've traded in my butterfly underwear for infinite butterfly kisses.
