Hey, it's the 6th chapter! Sorry it's been so long. Really. I just had other things to focus on.
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Stevie's POV 3rd Person
When Stevie felt her lips connect with Zander's, all she could think about was that this felt so right. She wasn't a romantic kind of girl, but she knew that this kind of kiss was something most girls only dream of getting. Like she did in her dreams, though she'd never admit that to anyone.
It was passionate, yet not too passionate. It was intimate… but then again, the two of them were usually intimate. This was a different kind of intimacy though. This was… special. This kiss was warm, and sweet, and everything.
Just as Zander moved his lips to her neck, she pulled away. She could barely look at him, let alone his lips! But she did, and in his eyes she saw lust and love, and a desire very different than anything she'd ever seen before. But she steeled herself and sputtered,
"I-I can't."
"Why not?" Zander asked while trying to pull her back to him.
"I promised." she whispered, barely hearing herself.
"Promised who?"
"My mother." Her mother had died when she was 9 years old, after a long battle with breast cancer.
"What did you promise?" Zander murmured, looking down at her, matching her tone.
While she debated on whether or not to tell the boy in front of her, she thought about their past together: He'd been there at every single event of hers since they were 5- which was how they'd known each other. He'd gone to her mother's funeral even when she didn't. He'd held her when she climbed into his window when her cat died. He'd bought her her first bass, and helped her when she found out that she was moving a few years ago. He'd persuaded her father to not move, how she doesn't know. But he'd always been there for her, and that is why she decided to tell him her secret.
"I promised Mom that I wouldn't get a boyfriend till I was 17. She was afraid that I'd get pregnant like she did. You know, with Caleb." Caleb was her oldest brother.
Zander nodded but still pulled the girl he loved into a hug.
"I can wait." (Every single romance book has this. I mean, teen romance book. Paranormal, like Hush Hush and Evermore)
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that I'll wait till your birthday. Which, by the way, is in a month."
"How will you not be able to go that long without flirting?" Stevie mocked, her humor returning.
But Zander was still serious. "I mean it."
"Okay…"
As Stevie tried to untangle her arms from Zander's, he wouldn't let her go.
"Kissing someone doesn't necessarily mean that you have to start a relationship, right?"
"Um… actually it kind-" Stevie answered, her words cut off- again- by Zander kissing her.
After a minute, they pulled away.
"I mean it."
"And I still think that you have cheesy pick-up lines."
"How'd that come up?"
"No idea. But it's kinda funny, no?" Stevie laughed. "And to answer your previous question, I still think that the answer is yes, you do have to start a relationship."
This time, though, it was she that leaned in first.
A/N:
I hope you liked it. I enjoyed writing it, nonetheless.
I'm pretty sure the Epilogue will be up on Zevie Day. I'll ask my twin to upload it, 'cause I won't be here.
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Oh, and thank you to everyone who reviewed! You guys were really the only reason (haha) I even updated it.
~Allis