I flopped onto my side and eyed her. Teddi knew I loved Austin—well, had a huge dumb crush on him for as long as I knew her. But I didn’t get too raving around her. Austin was her brother, it was creepy. But with Peaches? Oh, she knew it all. The stupid amount of times I created Austin and me in role-playing video games to get married and the times I micro analyzed pretty much anything Austin did.

“What can I say? My roommate was unbalanced. Like unsafe.” I put my hands behind my head.

Peaches ignored my reason for moving in with Austin and got to the important questions. “Is he that pretty all the time? With the suave and those flirty eyes?”

I gave her a slow nod as I slid my mouth to the side. “All the damn time. It actually hurts my brain. I wonder if I’ll get used to it.”

I picked at my nail polish.

“We’ve been around Austin for a billion hours throughout our lives. Neither one of us is used to what a smoke show he is. I think everyone is in love with him. Just everyone. What are his friends like? Is his bed comfortable? Have you felt his sheets on your bare skin yet?” Peaches got a dreamy look in her eyes.

I hadn’t told her yet. I glanced at the door, and when I looked back at my friend’s face, her eyes were wide. “You have?”

“No. Not yet. No. We kissed. But…”

Peaches screamed and hit me with a pillow. Then she straddled me and put her nose an inch from mine. “Kissed? Kissed!”

I covered her loud mouth. “Peaches Beaches Willmer. Stop screaming kissed!”

She started licking my hand and I had to pull it away. I wiped my hand on her shoulder. “That’s disgusting.”

Peaches got really quiet like we were starring in a horror movie. “Tell me everything. Please.”

I bit my lips together for a beat before I unloaded on her. “So, so good. He smells so good. And his lips? So soft. And like, come on, you know how you feel his, like, stare in every part of your body?”

Peaches nodded and sighed like Austin was doing it to her in that second. “Yum.”

“Light that feeling on fire. And then toss that in lava. And then have sex with it.”

Peaches rolled off of me and exhaled like she had just had a powerful cigarette. “Sex with that man should be a protected sacred right. And we should all get a chance.”

We were both silent for a few seconds. I was picturing wrapping my legs around Austin. It was good.