Chapter 13: Chapter 14

Connor blinked. Blushed. Leaned into Emery’s side. “It was Em.”

“Nice.”

“Huh?” Emery looked at each of them, as if just then realizing he had kissed Connor in public for the first time. “Was I not supposed to do that?”

Connor scooted closer to him, “You’re good,” and kissed him right back.

“Oh my god, is this a thing?” Jules’ voiced shrilled from close by, suddenly right behind their heads. “Did I just see that? Did you two finally get your heads out of your asses?”

Connor looked up to see Jules already on the floor, pushing in between Emery and Aurora to get as close to them as humanly possible.

“How many people were rooting for this?” Emery asked.

A few others working on various cleaning or set dismantling had looked their way as well, and were talking or snickering while not hiding at all who they were talking and snickering about, including Nick.

Aurora and Jules shared a look and said in perfect harmony, “Everyone.”