Page 73 of The Spotlight Effect

“We were kissing,” Gray answers. And telling Charlie takes the win. Charlie’s eyes go wind as his mouth drops, and he goes back and forth, looking between us.

“Oh my god. When? How? Was it good?” Charlie asks all at once.

“I don’t kiss and tell,” Gray answers.

“It happened a few minutes before you walked up and I was rambling, so he kissed me,” I answer Charlie’s “when” question.

“Then we kissed for fun,” Gray adds.

“You jerk. That’s no first kiss. You have to do better than that,” Charlie says while slapping Gray’s arm.

“Jesus, can you not abuse my arm?” Gray says, swatting Charlie’s hand away.

“While I appreciate you considering me a god, I just think you should have chosen a better first kiss moment,” Charlie says simply.

“Who kissed who?” Scarlett asks, walking up from the left side of the fountain. How did we not hear her walking up?

“Gray kissed Lexi but in a terrible way,” Charlie says. Scarlett takes a seat beside Charlie on the ground in front of us.

“I need details,” Scarlett says excitedly.

“There are none, she was rambling and boom, kiss. No fairytale,” Charlie answers.

“He’s just disappointed,” Gray says.

“I am too,” Scarlett says, slapping Gray’s arm.

“Can everyone stop hitting me?” Gray says loudly.

“Did you at least like the kiss?” Scarlett asks.

“I’m not answering that,” I answer.

I did but they don’t need to know that.

“Kiss her better,” Charlie says, but Gray just rolls his eyes, which causes me to laugh a little.

We sit in our hiding spot for about ten more minutes before Kenan announced the game was over and we all went to the fire pit.

Walking up to the fire pit I notice Nevea and Kenan off to the side talking. It looks more like he’s getting upset with her over something. That must be why the game stopped. I continue to watch them as Gray ushers me to a seat.

“Song time!” Emerson cheers and Noah swings around his guitar. Noah and Charlie sing while Zara and Emerson pass out the supplies for us to make s’mores. I assemble my marshmallowonto the metal skewer as I see Kenan coming over to the fire pit and Nevea walking into the cabin.

They are definitely going to have a frosty night in bed.

Finally, we go inside to watch movies after all of us have completed our s’more. Noah pulls out the alcohol he brought, and I only choose to have a wine cooler since I don’t want to get completely drunk. Raven pulls out the weed that she brought while Scarlett rolls them up. “Do you mind if we smoke?” Charlie asks, directed to me and Lia. We both look at each other before shaking our heads.

“You wanna try?” Scarlett asks.

“I will.” Lia bounces up.

“I’m good with my wine cooler,” I reply.

Ido notneed to add weed on top of alcohol.

Once everyone has their respective drinks and snacks of choice, Noah starts Scream 4. Within about an hour of the movie, everyone has either gone upstairs or fallen asleep on the sofa, so I decide to go ahead and take my shower and lay down. Gray is already laying down in his bed when I come inside. “You can shower now,” I tell him since I’m done in the bathroom.

“It’s okay, I used the hall restroom,” he tells me.

---