It's been a year since Clay, otherwise known as Porkchop, planned the graduation event in Newport Beach. The event where a handsome Tyler Hamilton caught Clay off guard by kissing him. Clay, up until that day, had never kissed a boy before.
At 24 ye...
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"OKAY, fine. So I'm the only one who's purposefully injured anyone," Tyler said, rolling his eyes. "I admit my mistakes."
"Your big mistake of spraining my entire ankle," Jesse said.
"You deserved it in my mind," Tyler said, shrugging. "Let's move on. Never have I ever secretly liked anyone in this group more than in a friendly way, and never admitted to it. And no, that doesn't count my temporary crush on Jesse."
Jesse pretended to flip his hair. "I am a catch, aren't I?"
Hannah put her finger down, and everyone looked at her, eyebrows raised.
"This is gonna be good," Jesse said.
"What? You don't even know who I was crushing on, you smart-ass," Hannah snapped.
Jesse scoffed. "Uh, yeah, I do."
"No, you do not."
Jesse stopped eating his cake, set everything down, and clasped his hands together, staring at Hannah. "I'm no fool, Hannah. I did date you, and despite our lackluster relationship, it went on for quite a while. I know more about you than you think."
"This is why I hate you," Hannah muttered.
"Who were you crushing on?" DeShawn asked, taking a bite of the cake.
Which was really good, by the way. It was a chocolate cake with a white chocolate ganache in the middle, and the frogs were basically cake pops. There were only 2 of them, but everyone decided that I got one, since I bought the cake, and Skylar got one because she was the other newbie. I was really excited. It was yummy and coated in crunchy chocolate, which was one of my favorite things. I split it with Tyler because I just knew he wanted some, and I'd rather share it with him and have him enjoy it, too. The more happy, the better.
Hannah groaned. "Fine. I had a mild crush on Al–"
"Ha!" Jesse yelled, pointing at Hannah. "I fucking knew it!"
"You did not–"
"I totally did–"
"It was a little obvious," Celeste admitted.
Alex looked the most surprised, which I was living for. It was Celeste's idea to play Never Have I Ever, though it was way more PG than the games I'd played in college when I went out. Those always made me uncomfortable because I'd never had a lot of experience. I always felt like Tessa from After (the movie I didn't really love, and Hardin was always too toxic for me, but it was a guilty pleasure regardless). Here, it was more of a fun little get-to-know-each-other and reminiscing on memories thing. I felt like I was learning more about Tyler and his friends, the people he'd been surrounded by for so many years. It made me feel closer to him, and it wasn't just because we were sitting right next to each other, resting my head occasionally on his shoulder.
