The Kissing Booth - The First Year

Boston - Elle

We arrived at Alice's house, and I was shocked, it was actually a mansion. Her parents were waiting for us at the door, they looked lovely together, as did June and Matthew, I thought they really matched one another.

"Hi, June, Alice talked a lot about you, it's great to have you here with us," said Mrs. Howard, she had brown hair like her daughter, and she did not look over 45 ... but actually she was about to to make 60 at Christmas (Alice told me this when we were in LA).

Mr. Howard was also lovely. "Come i everybody, feel yourselves home, it's very cold today ... I think our first snow will be tomorrow, during dinner ... or at least that's what the weather channel reported" he laughed and got inside,  we all followed him.

The entrance hall was huge, with an entire marble staircase that rose in two sides, just like the mansions we used to see in Beverly Hills. At the bottom, on the left side of the stairs, was the dining room, and on the right side there were two huge living rooms. In the far right corner of the stairs there was a door and entering through it, as if we were under the stairs, there was a TV room. They showed the rooms, I would have a suite just for mebut just before I put my things in this lovely room, Noah came to us and said, "Actually I already talked to Alice, when she told me about the room you would be in, that you would go to my Harvard dormitory, she must have forgotten to tell her mother, but this is not a problem. "

"Noah ... would not it be too indelicate for me not to stay here? And there's still my father ... "

"Do not worry, I talked to my mom and she talked to your dad ... it's okay for them." He gave that gorgeous smile and I blushed. 

"Okay ... If my dad agreed, I agree too," and kissed him passionately.

When we finally stoped, he said. "Besides, I got your interview with the physical education coordinator, it will be tomorrow after lunch," he said, smiling.

I was not believing, he had really succeeded, he was doing everything to get me in Cambridge the following year.

"Noah ... I do not even know how to thank ... how wonderful! I need to tell Lee .. by the way..." before I finished speaking, he already completed

"Yes, Lee will have his interview tomorrow too, but my mother already told him"

"I can not believe he did not tell me anything... I'll have to kill him!" I was very happy for us

We went out for dinner and ended up at the Shake Shack, burgers were all we wanted. Brad was feeling overwhelmed by all the new experiences ... it was the first time he flew, and also his first time in another city ... the only thing he should be missing was other children, but until that time, his eyes were shining. I went with him to the playground outside. I looked at the sky, it was cold ... I remembered my mother, she loved the cold days and always said that we would love to play in the snow ... I never saw snow, so I was excited ... my mother was born in Chicago, so she was more than used to see and play in the snow. When she moved to Los Angeles with my grandparents (my grandfather worked in the film industry), she was a bit sad because her winters would be very different ... she never liked very hot days, but she got used to the Los Angeles weather. Besides that, Thanksgiving was one of the holidays she loved most, followed by Christmas ... I felt a tear rolling down my face and getting frozen. I had a good feeling, as if my mother were by my side, and then a hand touched my shoulder ... I jumped on the seat, it was June.

"I know what you must be thinking ... she loved the winter days," she was my mother's best friend, and she missed her a lot, too. We hugged and for a moment I cried, but I was not sad ... just missing my mother.

"Let's go back inside, actually I just came here to call Brad ... the dessert is waiting for him, and it's also very cold, he's not used to this weather." We came back and the boys were talking about the night football of Thanksgiving. "New England Patriots vs. Green Bay Packers" and Daniel (Mr. Howard insisted we called him by his first name) would tell Dad and Matthew that if Mike and Noah kept doing a great job on the college team, they could dream about a professional team and play in the National League. Of course it was too soon for that, but my heart sped up to hear about this...