Chapter 4

I swallowed, leaving a lump in my throat, as I approached Jimmy's house. DING-DONG.

The door opened.

"Hey Libby. Uh...Just put you backpack anywhere and I'll go get the textbooks and all ths stuff we need."

I nodded, a slight buzzing noise in my ears. A few minutes later, Jimmy came down from his room, carrying a couple textbooks, a poster-board and markers of all colors.

"Do you want anything to drink?"

I shook my head, looking around in a daze.

"Huh?"

"I asked if you wanted anything to drink."

"Uh...It's fine."

He shrugged and opened the textbook.

"Hmm...What should our project be about? Mr. Bower said no torture or sex or anything obscene, but he did say yes to something on war..."

I nodded and opened another textbook.

"Maybe we should do it on culture or religions from biblical times."

"What about crime and punishment?"

I flipped through a couple pages. I giggled.

"What?"

I stifled my laughter and pointed to an excerpt from the textbook.

"It--It says that during biblical times--that--hanging was---"

I couldn't hold in my laughter anymore. Curious, Jimmy looked at the page I was looking at.

"During biblical times, hanging was referred to impaling a person throught the rectal area with a sharp pole and leaving him to bleed to death in the gallows."

Jimmy looked at me, also laughing.

"I can see why you're laughing now!"

I jumped up and pointed outside.

"To the gallows! There's a hanging today!"

Jimmy also jumped up, but as he approached me, he tripped on the rug and came sprawling. In a tangle of arms and legs, he landed on top of me.

"Uhh..."

That increasingly funny moment had become an increasingly awkward one.

"Let's continue on this tomorrow," I said as we got up.

Jimmy nodded slowly. I picked up my backpack and approached the door. But as I tried to open the door, Jimmy placed his hand on the door and slowly closed it. I turned around. Then...

He kissed me.

It was gentle, and I was in total bliss.

We stood like that for what seemed like forever, and after we broke apart, we just went at it again.

This time, he nibbled my lower lip gently, and when I gasped slightly, he slid his tongue in my mouth. Our tongues battled for dominance, and after a while, I let him win.

When we finally broke apart, for real this time, Jimmy just said, "Cindy can't know about this."

Well, it's better than me jumping on him, right?

A/N: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! Muwahahaha! You guys can't believe I did that, can you? Can you? Muwahahahaha! And you guys are going, "Huh? But he was like, so in love with Cindy in chapter 3!" I go, "But you guys didn't notice the subtle flirting between Libby and Jimmy in the middle of that chapter? Hmm... How odd."

Anyway, all you gotta do now is review. I mean, how hard can that be? All you have to do is click that little purple button that says "GO".

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