I don't know about the rest of you, but this is the one I've been waiting for. Hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for taking the time to beta two chapters in your busy schedule, DaniWilder.

The McKeller Firsts

Chapter 4: First Kiss

"We're getting to my favorite memory: our first kiss," Jennifer pointed out as they walked down the deserted corridor aimlessly. There was a wide smile on her face showing how much she loved the feeling of his thumb caressing the skin along the curve of her fingers.

"Sounds like a good one to reminisce." Rodney grinned mischievously as he pulled her hand closer to his chest, inevitably drawing her closer as well.

A surprised thrill of excitement bubbled up from her chest and came out with a small laugh of delight as his lips staked their territory on hers for the thousandth time. It could never be compared to their first kiss because so many things had changed between them since that day but this one was no less sweet or cherished.

His tongue tasted sweet against hers and she thought back to how much had changed since then. Though not everything has changed. She blushed through their kiss at the thoughts it brought on.

It could only be described as electricity, the lightning-fast warmth spreading to every fiber of her being with the jolt she felt when their lips lightly brushed at first. There wasn't an unaffected part of her body left; everything responded instantly to his kiss. It felt so right.

Jennifer knew in a moment this was what every romance novel was always incessantly blathering about. First kisses were the first glimpse you got into the soul of your partner. Nothing was hidden and nothing was withheld. They had been right, oh so right, but what they didn't always tell you was the new-found desire to see his face at that particular moment; the fiery need to see the affect you're having on him. Never once did they mention how utterly powerless you are to do nothing more than flutter your eyelashes closed and lose your every thought.

And it was in this exact moment, when she closed her eyes, that she felt the first tentative pull on her bottom lip. It was quickly captured and held hostage, all the while being teased by his own soft lips.

There was a certain familiar taste on his lips, a sweet lingering savor. It was the first drop of rain that fell on the tongue in dancing weather, the first strawberry stolen from the garden in the summer, the first bite of chocolate. The way even the smallest morsels of chocolate make women throw their heads back with closed eyes, licking their lips in delight, was as close a comparison the touch and taste of his mouth on hers Jennifer could find in her thoughtless state. Is it because even the smallest speck still has a flood of flavor just waiting to please your tongue? Just the smallest taste of his lips had her head reeling.

Out of their own accord, her arms instinctively wrapped around his neck to hold his body as close to perfectly molded to hers as she could.

The thrill of the bond they were sharing ended when he gently released his hold on her swollen bottom lip with one final sweep of movement across her lips before pulling back to gauge her reaction as any proper gentleman would.

"I wasn't out of breath yet," Jennifer nearly whimpered as she drew his head back to hers for the start of a second drugging kiss.

It took a moment for Rodney to respond to her hungry claim of his mouth and longer still to lower his eyebrows from their new place high up on his forehead. When he did return to the previous level of intimacy they had shared before, he did so with a vengeance. His hands landed tenderly on her cheeks to feel her soft skin beneath them before sliding past her ears to become embedded into her hair, softly caressing the curls between his fingers while holding her close.

If she had thought she was incapable of thought before, she had obviously overlooked the fact that she had to have been thinking to notice that. Not a single comprehensible thought entered her mind and none were left to leave.

Rodney finally discerned the flush to her cheeks and breathy pants of air as he pulled back from peppering her eyelashes and jaw line with kisses.

"That was some reminisce. Dead-on," she complimented in between breaths as his hands stroked up and down her back.

There was a smug smile adorning her lover's face. "You're thinking of our second kiss."

Confusion curved her eyebrows. "No, I was just as breathless as our first."

A sure shake of his head now accompanied the 'I'm right' look on his face. "I would never make out without first seeing if it was all right with you. This was our first kiss." Rodney leaned down, giving an adoring look into the very depth of her eyes. His lips passed over hers and stayed for only one lingering moment before pulling back.

That one moment was long enough for her to close her eyes blissfully, but when they opened again, her annoyance was clear. "I sincerely doubt I let you kiss me like that when I would have demanded another kiss, as I will in a second." An index finger was raised in thought. "Either I was really tired or… Wait, you don't mean that kiss was during our first movie night together?" Jennifer guessed.

The recently shaking head started to nod slowly. "You don't remember?"

"I was exhausted and don't think I remember anything past what movie was playing, much less a kiss. Guess you didn't make it memorable enough," Jennifer teased as she gripped his hand once again. The shocked look on his face made it hard to hold in her laughter. "The second one though, that was something to remember."

His expression softened as he pulled her close once more, released her hand, and tilted her lips to meet his with his thumbs and fingers gently drawing her chin up from underneath. "Not possible, my first kisses always blow a girl away," he mumbled inches from her lips before claiming them for the thousandth and third time.

And now I'm off for a week-long trip to the East Coast. Enjoy until then. Plenty of chapters coming out from Dani in my absence I hear. Keep an eye out.