Page 34 of The Summer Plans

Me: Urgent! I need help!

Lucy: Why isn’t Raven on this group chat?

Me: Raven doesn’t need to hear about the things I want to do to her brother.

Lucy: Ohhh

Bella: SPILL!

Me: My heart aches when he’s around. Like physically hurts. I want to kiss him so bad. He’s the best kisser.

Bella: Brace face?

Me: Please don’t call him that.

Bella: Sorry

Lucy: You two had one kiss in high school that ended badly. How was that the best kiss?

Me: That wasn’t our only kiss.

Bella: WHAAAAA?

Me: Nobody knows this so please don’t tell Raven.

Bella:

Me: We sort of dated in secret for a little over a week. And when I say dated, I mean we snuck off every chance we got and made out like bunnies. We even got busy in the PTO closet once when a teacher gave me her key to retrieve something for her.

Lucy: I think everyone has made out in that closet at some point.

Bella: Hardy and I have!

Lucy: That doesn’t surprise me. Levi no! Don’t lick that. Sorry talk to text.

Me: Hahahahaha

Bella: #momlife.

Me: Anyway. I know our first kiss was a dare that ended in disaster when our braces got tangled. But I haven’t felt like that when kissing anyone else since then. Like everything in your body tingles. Like you can feel every individual hair stand on end. Like you can physically feel the blood pumping in your heart and through your veins.

Lucy: Okay, I’m loving the way you’re describing this, but now all I picture is Ms. Frizzle and her magic school bus driving around your body while you make out with RJ.

Bella: OMG Lucy, now I am too!

Lucy: Sorry. Levi has been into science shows lately.

Bella: As long as it isn’t Calliou.

Lucy: Fuck that whiney ass kid!

Me: I hate Calliou!

The chat is quiet for several minutes, and I worry their kids have distracted them.

Me: Please don’t tell Raven that I started a chat without her. I wouldn’t want her to feel left out.

Bella: You know she’s the last person to ever feel left out.