Diego’s first kiss
“Where were you?” Diego heard his brother ask. They were both there waiting for him, but Diego was still trying to process what had just happened. He could hardly believe it himself, but if the traces of lip gloss on his lips were proof, he didn’t imagine it. “I think I just kissed a girl.”
A few minutes earlier…
They had just been talking. That’s all it was.
He was getting ready to go meet up with his brothers to leave school when she came up to him. “Heyyy Diego.”
“Summer, hey.” He said, smiling when he turned to see her. She sat near him in history class, and behind him in math, where he had let her borrow a pencil earlier that day.
“Thanks again for helping me with that history homework, and for the pencil earlier. You really saved me there.” She said with a smile, her eyes locking onto his.
“It’s the least I could do, Summer. I’d do it for you, anytime.” To him, it was no big deal. History was his specialty, and he always had an extra pencil in class, so none of it was a worry for him. He’d do it for any friend, just like he did for Summer. “Just say the word, and I’m there.”
As Diego talked to her, he watched the way she smiled, occasionally twisting a strand of her hair about her finger in a way she often seemed to do when she was thinking. To him, it was an exceptionally ordinary interaction. He was just being his usual friendly self, so when Summer first brought her hand up to his shoulder, Diego didn’t think anything of it until she leaned in. He hardly had a moment to realize what was happening before her lips met his.
It was just a few seconds before she pulled back, only to kiss him again just a moment later, but this time stronger, pulling herself closer to him as his hands now held her by the waist. Caught off guard by the initial feather light kiss, he didn’t know what to do. This one was different, more intoxicating, more natural, or simply just, more. While she may have initiated it, this kiss wasn’t one sided, despite being just as much of a surprise.
It may have lasted only a few seconds, or perhaps an eternity. Diego couldn’t say. All concept of time was out of reach for those few mesmerizing moments of Summer kissing him before she finally pulled away.
Her cheeks tinted a slight pink, probably not more than his likely were, Diego watched her smile widen as she not only pulled away, but took a few steps back. “I… I gotta go. Bye Diego.” As soon as the words came out, she raised her hand in a small wave before turning down the hallway.
“Bye Summer…” he said as she walked away, already beyond hearing him. She really kissed him. All Diego could do was stand there, stunned by what just happened. A girl kissed him. His first kiss, right there in the middle of the school hallway, and he hadn’t even meant for it to happen. She was just a friend. He’d never thought about her as anything more than that. He was just being nice, friendly. He always was. But somehow, something made her decide to kiss him, and now he was late to meet up with his brothers to leave.
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