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“It’s not, though. It doesn’t feel crazy to me. Just… Are you sure?”

Diana turned her head back and said, “I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life.”

“Okay,” Cheryl replied.

“Okay?”

Cheryl nodded. Diana then shifted a little closer to her, and Cheryl turned her body toward her, kneeling in the dirt now. Diana did the same until they faced each other.

“I don’t know what I’m doing,” she admitted.

“Me neither,” Cheryl replied and smiled softly at her.

When Diana leaned in close, Cheryl met her halfway, pressing their foreheads together.

“Oh, wow,” Diana let out. “Thisis how that feels?”

Before long, Cheryl’s instincts took over, so she cupped Diana’s cheek.

“You’re so soft.”

“My hands are a little rough. Sorry. It’s from the work.”

“I don’t care,” Cheryl said, leaning forward until their lips were pressed together.

Then, it appeared as if Diana’s instincts took over as well, and she kissed Cheryl back hard. Their mouths opened to each other like they’d done this a thousand times already, and before Cheryl realized it, she was lying on the ground. Diana was on top of her, kissing her like she never wanted to do anything else.

“This feels so good,” Diana shared, moving her lips to Cheryl’s jaw.

“Yes, it does,” she agreed. “God, I don’t want to stop.”

Diana’s lips moved back to her mouth, deepening the kiss, and Cheryl spread her legs. Diana settled between them, and when her hand moved to Cheryl’s hip and slid up herside, Cheryl gasped. She wanted Diana’s hands everywhere.

“We should probably slow down,” she managed to get out, even though she didn’t want to say it when Diana’s lips moved to her neck.

“Why? You said no one comes back here.”

“They don’t, but I’ve never…”

Diana stopped, looked at Cheryl beneath her, and said, “You are so beautiful. I don’t want to stop kissing you, but we don’t have to go any further than that. I haven’t done that, either.”

“This could be our place,” Cheryl suggested, wrapping her arms around Diana’s neck. “We could come back here more prepared next time, with a blanket or something, and maybe at night, when no one could see us, we could…”

“You want to?”

“I at least want more ofthis, even if that’s all we do for now.” Cheryl kissed her. “You’re beautiful, too. You know that, right? I couldn’t stop staring at you in biology yesterday. I dreamed of kissing you last night. And when I woke up, I was–” She stopped because this might be a little too much to share, considering they’d only just started kissing.

“What?”

“You know what happens when you think about things like that? What happens between your legs, I mean?”

“Oh,” Diana uttered and smiled at her. “That happened after you dreamed about kissing me?”

“It’s happening right now, too.” Cheryl nodded down. “I don’t want to stop. I just think we should.”

“It’s happening to me, too,” Diana shared.

“Yeah?”