Clara looked up at him, her eyes bright. She leaned in and kissed the smudge of charcoal on his chin.
That was the beginning. Not with a grand promposal or a love letter slipped into a locker. It started with a spilled sketchbook, a charcoal smudge, and two hands finally closing the distance.
Theo blinked. “You… saw that?”
At the spring formal, he gave her a small framed sketch—the two hands, now finished. The fingers were touching. And beneath it, he had written in tiny, perfect letters: The End?
Clara looked up at him. Really looked . He had kind, dark eyes that were currently wide with terror, and a smudge of charcoal on his chin. She’d never noticed the smudge before. cute sex teen
“No,” she whispered. “Just the beginning.”
Theo’s breath caught. For a long, perfect second, neither of them moved. Then he turned his hand over, palm up, and laced his fingers through hers. Clara looked up at him, her eyes bright
“Oh,” Clara whispered.