Tryst Six Venom by Penelope Douglas

on fire again.
“Get in the bathroom, Clay,” she mumbles as she rubs an imaginary itch
on her chin, trying to look covert in the school hallway.
Butterflies swarm my stomach, and slowly, I make my way past the
special committees’ bulletin board and the couple making out. I push through
the locker room door and head for the restroom.
I think Liv likes our secret, and although I’m grateful, because I just want
her to myself, I have to wonder why she’s not putting up more of a fight to go
public. I know she said in the hotel that this probably wouldn’t turn into a
relationship, given that we’re both leaving for college in a few months, but
something is eating at me. I told her I loved her last night. I don’t know if she
forgot, is ignoring it, or she thinks I was lying, but when she said it back, she
said she was kidding, so that doesn’t count.
She hasn’t said it back yet—not really—and I don’t know why it hurts a
little.
Part of me wants her to fight me on this. To demand we walk down the
school hallway hand in hand.
Liv checks the stalls to make sure we’re alone and then follows me into
one, the door locking and my books dropping to the floor in a flurry right
before she grabs me into her arms.
Slipping my hand under her skirt, I press my body into her as she holds
my face, and we kiss. I moan, taking advantage of however many seconds we
have alone to let her know how good she feels.
Her tongue caresses mine, and I inhale her scent and the taste of her
watermelon-flavored lip tint.
“Mine.” She pants, rubbing her thumb across my lips. “Until graduation.
Okay?”
“Yeah.”
She tips my chin back and kisses slowly down my neck. “No one has to
know, but you better.”
“I know.” I nod. “Don’t worry, I know.”
I’m yours. Just don’t stop.
We grind on each other, but whenever I try to go faster, she slows us
down, and I’m going insane, because it’ll be hours before we can be alone
again.
I lift my leg, setting my foot on the toilet seat, and she slips a hand inside
her black bandana that she tied around my thigh. Hidden underneath my skirt