"Bonjour, mon amie," I greeted Selena as we kissed each others cheeks as we had done every day for the past two weeks. Even if they were a daily occurrence, every time her lips touched my skin a rush still went through my veins, ending in my stomach.
While these moments were often my favorite part of the day, I had managed to show no further sign of my attraction to her.
"Hey, Nick just texted me. Everyone's in the library."
The library was where we would go before school started.
"Sounds good."
As we walked, we giggled and spoke effortlessly; I had never met someone I was so comfortable with, even if it had been only two weeks.
When we walked into the library, Nick, Miley, Taylor, and Joe were gathered around the couch, with Miley on the arm, Joe standing while reading a Guinness World Record book, and Nick and Taylor sitting.
Demi sat in the last empty spot beside Nick and gazed up at me with a devilish grin.
I smiled right back at her and plopped on her lap.
"Oh my gosh," Selena said, laughing.
"Ah," I sighed with over-the-top satisfaction as I stretched my legs out so they went across Nick's lap and ended in Taylor's.
"Good morning to you, too," Nick said.
"Good morning!" I said cheerfully.
"Shhh," a kid sitting at table halfway across the library.
When his back was turned, I made a face at him. Selena gave me a look. I knew she had seen and we giggled.
I pushed my self up a little and situated myself so that I wasn't crushing Selena. During these movements, I leaned in a little close to her face for a moment.
She was perturbed; in fact, she just smiled even wider.
Once I was leaning back at the proper distance from her face, I tried to focus on not turning red.
"Did you know some people are in her for kissing 32-hours straight?" Joe asked, sounding baffled.
"What about when they had to go to the bathroom?" Miley asked.
"And eat?" Nick added.
"It doesn't say anything about that," Joe answered, scanning the page.
"When you think about it, French kissing is kind of weird," Taylor said thoughtfully.
What was so weird about kissing someone on the cheek as a greeting?
"I don't know," I said doubtfully. "I mean, Selena and I French-kiss every morning."
As soon as the words left my mouth I realized what I had just said.
My mouth popped open and cheeks turned a deep pink. Selena just burst out laughing, Miley grinned, Taylor gave us a look, and Joe and Nick sort of gaped.
"Not that kind!" I backtracked frantically.
Selena was still laughing. "The kiss-kiss on the cheek kind!"
An 'Aha!' expression dawned on everyone's faces, joined by a chorus of drawn out "Oh!"s.
Miley and Taylor started laughing with us.
"The look on your faces!" Selena said, her cheeks also a little pink.
"Well, I'm sorry if it confused us," Nick huffed, crossing his arms.
"I'm still confused," Joe said, indeed looking puzzled.
"They meant a French kiss when they do this," Miley said exasperatedly, grabbing Joe's face and kissing the air above both of his cheeks.
She plopped back on the couch.
"Hey Joe, you looked a little excited there for a moment," Taylor teased.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Nick shot up. "That's off limits!"
"Excuse me?" Miley asked.
"Well, guys just don't date their brother's ex-girlfriend," Nick said, looking a little uncomfortable.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Miley's voice escalated a notch. "You are not allowed to tell me who I can and can not date."
"Um, Miley, is there something I should know?" Joe asked, raising his eyebrows.
She just rolled her eyes at him. "Yeah right. I just like yelling at Nick," she said, giving Nick a little push. "Sorry I went psycho on you."
Selena stared at her. "Since when do you apologize?"
"Selena!" I said incredulously, but smiling.
"What?"
"You don't just ask that!"
"Well, I'm sorry-" Selena said to me, then turned to Miley, "-but since I've known you, you've ran into three people in the hallway, stole about a million pencils, interrupted twice as many people, and once you even took some random guy's whole thing of French fries!"
"He wasn't using them!" Miley protested.
I was glad for the distraction from my terminology flub. While everyone else listed of Miley-stories, I was trying to get the image of me really kissing Selena out of my head. However, when an image was as enjoyable as that, it didn't leave in a hurry.I turned my head to look at Selena. She was smiling widely at me with an indescribable in that moment, I knew that somehow, someday, I was going to kiss her.