Page 19 of What If I See You

He gestures with his head toward the door and offers me his hand. “Then let’s go. The night is young and there’s more fun to be had.”

Nodding, I hop down from my stool, allowing him to help steady me. “Yeah. Let’s do it.” I raise my hands as high as I can get them and proclaim, “Bucket list, here I come!”

Griffin pays our tab and then we say goodbye to our friends, well, those of them who are within eyesight, and then bust our way out of the nightclub, letting the chill of the fresh air slap us in the face. Throughout the small town-square there are booths and tents set up with vendors of all types as the area celebrates…well, hell if I know, but there are lots of people so it’s pretty busy out here.

“Where should we go first?” Griffin asks as I try to focus on anything that I haven’t done before. I see a sign for chocolate covered bananas and for some reason that gives me the giggles. Reaching up to Griffin’s face, I turn him so he can see the same sign I’m reading.

“I’ve never eaten a chocolate covered banana.”

“That’s a weird thing to have never done, you know.”

I shrug my shoulder. “Well, it’s on my bucket list sooo…”

“Alright then,” he laughs. “Let’s do it. My treat.”

“You’re a treat, indeed, Ollenberg.”

We walk over to the tented booth and Griffin pays for two chocolate covered bananas.

“You’re having one too?”

“Of course. You don’t get to have all the fun.”

I beam back at him. “Okay!”

He hands me one and we clink them together toasting, “To love and friendship.” Giggling because it’s the only toast we know at this point, we put the bananas in our mouths. Griffin takes a bite out of his, and my eyes grow big and round as he chews.

With his mouth full he asks, “Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Because you’re a man and you bit the penis!”

He nearly chokes on his bite. “What?”

“Shouldn’t you like, I don’t know, suck on it first?”

“Suck the banana?”

“Yeah. Suck it.”

“Suck it how?”

“You know…like an ice cream cone or something.”

“You suck ice cream cones?”

I giggle. “I mean a little, yes. Off the tip.”

“Fuck me,” he murmurs. With a little tip of his chin he says, “Show me.”

Huffing out a quick sigh, I push the tip of the banana into my mouth, running my tongue around it to taste more of that chocolate flavor. Griffin’s brows raise when I push the banana farther into my mouth, sucking on it a little harder before pulling it back out. His jaw drops and it’s then that I notice his pupils look completely blown as he watches me suck on the banana.

“Jesus fucking Christ,” he mumbles.

His words make me laugh. “So much better than biting the banana, Griffin. You have to get the whole experience.”

“Apparently, I do.” He throws his arm around my shoulders. “Come on, Hobbs. If I watch you suck that banana all night, it’s going to be a sticky walk home. Let’s keep going. What else have you never done?”

We spend the next couple of hours doing all the things I can think of that I’ve never done. Griffin couldn’t believe I had never been ice-skating but when I assured him I had not ever had the experience, he took me for a spin on the little rink in the center of town.

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