Page 169 of After All This Time

“What the hell are you guys looking at?” Noah asks the guys.

They’re looking at each other, trying to comprehend what they just witnessed. Grayson speaks up first. “Uh, Sunshine? Sharing food. Dani’s sitting on your lap. What the hell did we miss?”

“You guys…missed a lot,” Noah replies as he licks his lips.

“What’s a lot?” Xander adds.

“Do you want to tell them, or should I?”

I have a mouthful of food, so I resort to pointing at him because I can’t respond by talking.

“Pretend I’m not even here,” I say.

“I can’t do that, Dani.”

“Fine. I’ll go eat on the step that’s in front of the door to my house. Knock yourselves out. Don’t talk about me too much, Heart Eyes. Grayson’s head might explode off his body.”

That gets a laugh out of Noah and Xander.

“Haha, you’re so funny,” Grayson says.

“You've got a little something on your shirt,” I tell him.

Grayson looks down at his shirt, only to be met with my pointer finger hitting him in the chin.

I wink at the guys, walking away to go sit on the step so they can talk about me as much as they want to.

CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

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“Do you guys want the raw or fluffy version?”

“Raw is the only answer here,” Xander replies.

“Okay…um. Dani and I…We…”

“Spit it out, man,” Grayson presses me.

Ah, screw it. I’m going for the raw and honest truth.

“Dani and I had sex last night.” A smug look writes itself all over my face.

Xander reacts to the news first. “Holy shit, bro!”

Grayson is next. “I fucking called it.”

“No, you didn’t,” Xander squints his eyes at Grayson.

“Yes, I did. I told you Dani would be the person that Noah would lose his virginity to. Remember? In sophomore year?”

“Don’t recall any of that.” Xander rolls his eyes.

“What the hell are you guys talking about?” I chime in.

“It doesn't matter. What does matter is our little boy is all grown up.” Grayson has this proud expression on his face, causing me to roll my eyes in his direction.

“So…how was it?” he asks, raising his eyebrows.

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