sixteen
LANCE
The four of us pile into my truck. Blake and Geoff seem nice enough and will definitely help ease the tension between Kenzie and me.
“So you both grew up here?” Geoff asks from the back seat.
“Yeah,” Kenzie and I answer at the same time.
“And you guys were the big ‘it’ couple?”
I glance at Kenzie in the passenger seat.
“We were a couple, yeah,” she answers.
“Small-town love. I’m a sucker for those stories,” Geoff carries on.
“We met on New Year’s Eve in Times Square.” Blake laughs.
I catch Geoff taking Blake’s hand in the back seat. “Best night of my life, but just imagine if we’d met in high school when you were just coming out of that awkward preteen stage. All of the firsts. Oh, the butterflies.”
“You didn’t get butterflies with me?” Blake’s tone suggests he’s o
