Our Last Time: A Novel Read Online Free PDF

over the shoulders as I grabbed his waist.
    “I rented my tux, but you’ll have to pick out my pink bow tie. And shoes, Will. We don’t have prom shoes,” he said. His eyes had widened as he looked down at me, and I smirked.
    “We can wear our sneakers.”
    “No, we should go get shoes now.” He wasn’t going to be even a little bit original for this prom. At least I’d feel like this big mimic wearing a hideous magenta-colored dress to prom.
    “ Hey …” I paused, as I backed a few inches away from him. I had an idea, but I was pretty sure it had been Kennedy’s all along.
    “Does your tux have ruffles? I’d be so happy if your tux had ruffles.”
    His lips meshed into this half-smile thing, and my mouth dropped when he nodded. I was excited about prom now.
    “I get it. I understand. And this is why you’re my best friend.”
    He laughed. “And we’re going to take prom pictures, Will. We’re going to slow dance, and your head is going to rest on my shoulder. I’ll have to bend my knees a little so your head can reach my shoulder, though. And we’re also not going to get laid. We’ll be just like everyone else.”
    We were going to prom to make fun of it and to do everything that’s typically done on prom night, and I wish I would have thought of it before Kennedy did.
    “Should I tease my hair to make it really tacky looking? What if I wore a bow in my hair, too, Kennedy? And…” I paused, thinking. “Oh, and please tell me you got me a gigantic corsage, Kennedy. That would be so awesome.”
    He grinned. “It was supposed to be a surprise, Will, but you’re way too smart for my little surprises. You figure everything out,” he sighed.
    “We have to go get shoes now.” I dragged him by his hand, but he was willing to be dragged.
    We rode on our bikes to the closest shoe store in our small hometown in the pit of Tennessee. I hadn’t even taken the dress off, and I wore my Keds. Kennedy was wearing his Beatles T-shirt and a pair of long khaki cargo shorts, along with his high-top converse sneakers.
    After placing our bikes in the corral, we smiled before locking elbows as we walked in the shoe store together.
    “I have to get stilettos,” I whispered.
    “And they have to be shiny,” he told me.
    “And you have to get magenta-colored men’s shoes. It’s not fair for you to only have a pink bow tie. You need to look just as ridiculous as me,” I said, grinning up at him.
    I was so excited, because I knew Kennedy would let me dress him up. Even if he’d look ridiculous. We’d look ridiculous together.
    “If you can find magenta-colored shoes in the men’s section, that’d be great,” he chuckled.
    I was sure I’d find them.
    I found some clear stilettos that were shiny enough to blind someone, and Kennedy nodded in agreement when I looked to him for approval.
    I sat on the bench next to him before putting them on my feet. I held my feet out in front of me, and we stared at the heels in unison.  
    “How will I walk in these, Kennedy?”
    “By standing,” he shrugged. “And maybe moving your feet step by step in front of you.”
    “I’d fall,” I groaned. I had never walked in heels before, and I hadn’t thought about that before coming here.
    “ Hey , hold on a second,” he smiled. He got up from the bench, and kneeled to scan the various boxes of stiletto heels. He grabbed a box of heels that were a size thirteen, and he sighed as he looked over to me.
    “I don’t know what size I am in women’s, but this is the largest size I could find.”
    I grinned.
    He took his shoes and socks off, and placed them next to mine on the ground below us.
    “We can learn how to walk in heels together ,” he said, as he took one of the yellow heels and successfully popped it on his left foot.
    I laughed as he popped the other one on his right foot, and held his feet out in front of him like I had done. “ Very Pretty,” he said.
    He wouldn’t drink a milkshake through a straw, but