APRIL 15

Willow and I sat down at the lunch table with our friends, holding hands. I was pretty sure that neither of us had stopped grinning all day. No, all weekend. We were in pretty high spirits.

Adrian and Alexis were already there, as well as Ty. It seemed like Tamara wouldn't be sitting with us today, unless she was just running late.

Adrian narrowed his eyes at me, his gaze moving between me and my sexy girlfriend. He opened his mouth to say something, just as Tommy plopped into a chair. Before he could actually speak, though, Willow did.

"Where's Michelle?" Willow asked. "And Tamara?"

"Dentist appointment," Ty said.

Tommy shrugged. "Sitting with her girlfriends."

"Stryker. Willow," Adrian said suspiciously. His eyes were still narrowed.

We looked at him. "Yeah?" we both said.

"You two had sex this weekend. Didn't you? You two finally did the deed."

All eyes turned to us. I tried to school my face into a blank expression. I was pretty sure that a grin was slipping through, though. "I don't know what you're talking about," I lied.

He looked at Willow. "You did, didn't you? You had sex with him." His voice was accusatory. I don't know why. He'd lost his virginity long before me. He didn't have any room to judge.

A smirk slowly pulled at Willow's lips. "I did," she admitted proudly. I should have known she'd say something like that. Willow really had no shame. None at all. Not that I was ashamed of what we had done. I just...Oh, who was I kidding? I didn't care if all my friends knew. "And it was freaking amazing. This guy is awesome."

Tommy and Adrian whooped, causing several students at other tables to look at us strangely. Adrian held up his hand. "Way to go, bro! High five!"

I slapped his hand, grinning.

"Wait a minute," Adrian said, holding up his hands. "Willow, how do you really know he was that good? He's your first, right?"

"Yeah, so?"

"What do you have to compare him to?"

Willow shook her head. "Whatever. It doesn't matter that he was my first. It was still amazing. So, yes, we had sex. It's not like we're the only ones in the group." She looked pointedly at Adrian and Alexis.

The couple shrugged. "We took that step a few months ago," Adrian said.

Willow grinned. "I know. Your girlfriend told me the next day. Anyway, to change the topic from my sex life, Stryk and I had an idea. For a graduation party. Well, kind of a party."

Tommy looked interested. "Oh, yeah? What's that?"

"We're totally going to have a Star Wars movie marathon. And we'll probably play the Five Kingdoms for a little while after that. We are going to stay up all night. It's going to be epic."

Alexis shook her head, but she was grinning. "I don't know that Tamara and Michelle will go for that, but I'm game. I love Star Wars."

"Well, they're welcome to come if they want, but that's our plan. Mac is going to let us do it at her house," Willow explained. "I already asked her about it. We're thinking of meeting up there about nine or so, if you guys are doing stuff with your families first. I know Stryker's having a big family barbecue or dinner or something. Like he usually does."

Ty looked a little surprised. He gave me a questioning look. "Really? Your mom's okay with that? I'm sure we'll get pretty loud, and isn't Kensley still pretty young? She's only a year and a half old. I doubt your parents will want us keeping her up half the night."

"Dude, the theater room is soundproof," I reminded him. "They won't even know we're there. We'll be fine."

Tommy shrugged. "Sounds good to me. I can't wait to be done with high school. What better way to end it than binge-watch movies?"

"Did you finally decide what you wanted to do after high school?" Alexis asked him.

"I'm not going to college, that's for sure. I think I'm going to travel for a bit. I really want to go see Australia."

"Ty? What about you?"

"I'm going to Avalon University. I've got a full-ride scholarship. I'm going to be a software engineer."

"He wants to get hired at Camelot Corporation," I said, teasing slightly. It wasn't like I didn't think he could get a job there. I knew he could. Heck, Pappy would probably hire him in an instant. Pappy knew how smart Ty was, and how good he was with computers.

Willow elbowed me. "You shouldn't be teasing him, Mister-I-want-to-be-a-famous-actor. Isn't that what your dad does for a living? Software engineering?"

"Well, yeah."

"And he makes a heck of a lot of money."

"True."

"So don't tease Ty."

I saluted her. "Yes, ma'am."

Willow just rolled her eyes.