“Are you OK?” Noah calls over to me.
I scramble up, my face red with embarrassment.
“That was an awesome body roll. I wanna try.” Noah takes a step back before hurling himself over the shingle. He crashes into me and we land on the beach in a tangled heap. And as we laugh our heads off, the very last traces of tension between us disappear.
“I’ve missed you so much, Inciting Incident,” he whispers.
And this time when we kiss it’s not apprehensive at all. This time when we kiss it feels like coming home.