“Yes you are,” she said, and then in a move I never could have guessed, she sat down on my hips, me pinned beneath her like when we were wrestling, but this was something much bigger. “You finally kissed me,” she said. “I thought you wanted me to.” Coley didn’t say anything to that. I waited for her to, but she didn’t. “It doesn’t have to be a big deal,” I said. “It can just be one more stupid thing the two of us tried together.” Coley kept on sitting where my hip bones jutted out, all of her weight on me, and having her there was maddening; I wanted to pull her down on top of me. But she
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