ojandtostitos posted in blueridgeschool:

"I think if someone gave her a chill pill, she'd choke," the redhead joked, shaking her head. She knew that really, in the end, it was just Sera's way of dealing with the pressure from their parents. If she was perfect, they couldn't complain and by now she had conditioned herself to enjoying being smug and perfect almost as much as they did. Maybe she would outgrow it one day, but Tatum had a feeling it would be a lifelong complex.

"Not afraid of my germs, huh?" she half-challenged him, smiling lazily as she looked at him a little nervously. She chewed her lower lip for a second. "Not even of cooties?" she asked, surprising even herself by leaning in the little distance between them and pressing her lips to his for a second.

They weren't Mack's lips, they weren't as soft, no where near the same as any girl. But they were familiar, and normal, and she would have to deal with it. Kissing boys was the easy part anyway, it was stopping them there that was the struggle. She had been dorgetting almost entirely about fish, she smiled weakly at him.

"Trout would be nice, my dad always catches trout.. and little smelts. He always catches a h-:uge bucket of smelts," she informed him, hoping the little kiss hadn't weirded him out or anything. She always felt like boys could tell she wasn't a hundred percent into it, even though none so far had said so. Just her guilty conscious, she supposed.