Carnival Corners by Elizabeth L. Brooks
Jason watched Caroline listening to the band play, only half-listening himself. She made it hard for him to listen to anything that wasn’t her. She made it hard to concentrate on anything else. The way her eyes seemed to light up when she smiled, the crinkles at their corners when she laughed, the way she pushed the hair out of her eyes only to have it fall right back. Jason could focus on the sly quirk of her lips when she was teasing him, or the line of her neck as it curved into her shoulder, or the way her lips rested on the glassware for a moment before she drank…
She had no idea how beautiful she was. She didn’t see the way her hair shining in the light of the sunset made him itch to run his fingers through it; or that the curve of her breast
