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SHE WALKED inside her home around midnight when the party had died down, everyone started to pile back into their houses or drive back home after the music stopped playing
she blushed as she shut the door in front of riley, the boy she had met the last second at the party
he insisted on walking her back home and they had small talk along the way
kim couldn't believe it but talking to riley was one of the few highlights of the block party
when they bid their goodbyes, kim walked upstairs in a girlish haze, feeling all giddy and warm inside as she entered her room and shut the door behind her
"had fun?"
kim snapped her head up to face his shadow. she was about to go over and turn on the lights to see him properly but he told her not to before she could
she watched him walk over to her, and the girlish feeling she had before multiplied and grew into something more; a fire lit in her stomach
even in the dark she could tell that leo wanted to reach for her
he did it all the time.
he'd smile and lean over to her, his slender fingers twitched while reaching for her skin but there was always a drop in his expression when he realized that it would just result in his hand going through hers
in attempt to break the intense silence kim walked over to her bed to take off her shoes "sorry i left you here so sudden"
leo turns to face her "no it's fine. did you have fun though?" he repeats, his voice had a bit more of a squeak to it and it made kim giggle
"yeah lots of it" kim doesn't bite her tongue when she blurts out her next sentence "i would've had more fun with you there though, like, it would be nice to dance with you—"
kim stopped when she heard leo laugh unyieldingly
his laughing made her relax; because boy did she love his laugh.
he stopped laughing after a while, silence engrossing the room before he started for her and trapped her between the bed, kim sat there and let him; she felt his light breath hit her face and secretly wanted to lean in and just maybe,
kiss him?
kim shuts her eyes and starts to lean in, unbeknownst to kimberly, leo almost leaned in himself before remembering what had to be done first
"you should go to bed" leo says, straightening himself away from the anticipating young kim
kim mentally slaps herself before opening her eyes to find his shadow standing away from her "uh right...i guess," kim lays herself down in bed, putting the covers over her before looking over at leo, who moved to sit himself at her desk chair
"don't you ever sleep?" she asks "spirits can't sleep" he responds
"why?" "i dunno" kim sighs in exasperation, to think i was gonna ask him to lay with me
"well that's just unfa—"
"kim, just relax. i'll be right here. i'm always right here." leo's soft words made her sigh deeply before she complied, letting her head hit the pillow
there was a long silence between them
kim broke it when she was in a drunken, half-asleep state; her curiosity getting the best of her
"leo?" "yeah?"
"can one kiss a spirit?" the question threw him off guard; he blushes in the dark before clearing his throat
"uh, it's complicated"
kim giggles, tossing around in bed "you sure say that a lot," kim lets out an airy breath "ugh, after tomorrow i'll have to go back to school"
leo sat up in interest, he didn't want to be a hinderance to her sleep but he couldn't help but ask ~ "how is school by the way?"
"my grades are good in everything except math, this one girl on my soccer team hates my guts cause i didn't pass her the damn ball, the food's ass, i'm pretty sure the kid who i sit next to in biology sleeps in a trash can with dead raccoons, everyone calls me iowa except my english teacher mrs. powell, i have a fuck ton of tests to study for and" kim pauses to take a breath "i'm pretty sure i don't have a single friend there"
"hello darkness my old friend," kim started to sing to herself
leo felt bad for her, he went to eastview high as well when he was alive — it was all fun and well until his senior year
"wow, i'm sorry" leo lets out kim shrugs "it's no biggie! i already got one best friend outside of school though and it lives right in my house with me"
leo cracked a smile, "who, me?" he guessed
kim shakes her head fervently and even in the darkness he could tell that she was looking at him as if he lost one or two screws in the head
"not you, fucker! my bed!" kim cuddles herself deeper under the sheets "i love it so much" she coos causing leo to roll his eyes and laugh sarcastically as kim giggled once again
"are you drunk?" leo asks, amused
kim shakes her head "nope it's just the giddiness, i always feel like this on the inside when i talk to you" leo blushes again "aw leo, are you blushing?"
leo clears his throat once more "uh no" kim mocks him with a "uh no," making her voice deeper before laughing her head off again
"hey leo, wanna know a secret?" kim asks when she finally calms down
leo, still very much amused, responds with a sure
but what he got was kim's sudden snoring
leo sighed, shaking his head "what am i going do with you, miss yates?"
upon asking himself the rhetorical question, the first idea his mind came up with was:
