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wanna kiss me, Cade?” She pressed her warm lips against mine. She tasted like bubblegum. I started feelin’ things, like all through my body. Then my body took over like it just knew what to do. It felt so good. Even though I didn’t like her, my body was really likin’ this kiss. It was my first kiss, but I could tell it definitely wasn’t hers. She licked my lips and next thing I knew, her tongue was swirling around in my mouth. I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to be doin’, but I guess I did it right because she kinda moaned.
    I pulled away from her and said, “Wow that was....uh, somethin’.”
     
    Suzanna~ 
    When I looked in the mirror in my room, I don’t know what I expected to see. I guess I thought I’d look different. I looked the same, but boy, I felt so different. Branch had kissed me. He like really kissed me. Shouldn’t I look different? I felt like I was a grown up now. I had my first kiss and it was scary, but kinda fun too.
    I didn’t know if I liked Branch. I didn’t really think I liked him, but when he kissed me, it felt good, but I guess that could’ve been because it was my first real kiss - on the lips. I would always count my first kiss as when I kissed Cade’s cheek in the third grade. 
    In my dreams, Cade was always my first kiss on the lips, too. I knew Cade didn’t like me that way, but it didn’t keep me from wanting him to. I was pretty sure I had a crush on him since the moment I first saw those icy green eyes in the third grade. Messing up our best friend status wasn’t gonna happen. Not having Cade for my best friend wasn’t an option.
    A feeling of remorse about leaving Cade naked in the pond hit me as I snapped out of my first kiss trance. I guess it was wrong of me to do that to him, but he really did deserve it. Still, I kinda felt bad.
    My mom wasn’t much of a cook, but she made one heck of a lemon bar. Since it was really about the only thing she could make, we ate them a lot. It was really weird that lemon bars were all she could make, but I guess my Mamaw had taught her how to make those before she died. After that, my Papaw didn’t know much about cooking, so Mom didn’t learn how to make anything else. It wasn’t like she really cared about cooking for Dad and me, anyway. She liked the lemon bars and since they were easy to make, she kept them on hand so she could at least pretend to be a good mom who cooked for her kid.
    Cade loved my mom’s lemon bars. He would sneak in the house, because my mom didn’t like me to have boys in the house, and sneak them out of the kitchen. So if I took him a lemon bar, he would have to forgive me for the incident with the swimming trunks.
    If I was gonna watch him eat one, I would need one, too. I put a couple of them on a plate and covered them with plastic wrap. I figured it would be hard to ride my bike carrying the plate, so I decided to just walk over to Cade’s house. I didn’t want to risk dropping them.
    The Walker Ranch was huge. There was a big barn along with several other outbuildings. The house looked like South Fork off that show Dallas that my mom watched on TV. It was big, white, and had a huge front porch with tall white pillars. There was a porch swing on one side of the porch and a full table and chairs on the other side. It was like they had a dining room on their porch. We would eat dinner out there a lot in the summertime. I spent most of the summer with the Walkers and most of the nights after school, well just most of my time with them, period.
    I had learned so much from them. They taught me what a mom and dad were supposed to look like. They were supposed to be in love. My mom and dad barely spoke to one another. Cody and Candy, they got mad when I called them Mr. and Mrs. Walker, were so in love. They were always holding hands and kissing. The way Cody looked at Candy was just beautiful.
    The lane leading to the house was lined with beautiful tulip trees and it had a big white metal arch