Page 9 of Hers to Kiss
If he were talking to a teacher.
He hadn’t learned anything about confidence or how to get over the fear of rejection. Had his father ever known rejection in his life?
Keke groaned. “Okay, okay, you don’t have to pull my arm.” She shook her arm dramatically.
Pete’s head snapped back. “I’m not even touching you.”
Keke rotated around in dramatic fashion. “I’ll do it.”
“You’ll do…what?”
“I’ll teach you,” she said simply, yet with a devious smile.
Fear crept up his spine. He didn’t want to ask. “Teach me…what?”
Keke’s head fell back. “You’re so clueless. Just like a guy.”
Her confident gaze held his as she plopped on the bed next to him. Her perfume swirled around him, drawing him into an even deeper haze. He stared directly into her hypnotic brown eyes searching for the meaning he wasn’t deciphering.
“I’ll show you how to win over girls. Any girl. That Lea. Okay? You’ll need this skill if you’re ever going to operate in the real world. Like at college, for instance.”
Any girl?He thought about the cheerleaders in high school that every dweeb like him wanted to ask to senior prom but didn’t have the guts. Lea looked like an exact match. How could he say no?
