I wanted to keep kissing him, wanted it to the point that I had almost forgotten we were standing on the sidewalk, out where everyone could see us, and when Eddie pulled back, for just a second I leaned forward to follow him. But then the handle of Eddie's bike was jammed against my hip and I laughed as I glanced down at the bike, as if realizing for the first time it was there at all.

"I think so," I said, even though I had no idea. I had stopped paying attention to the time when I realized I wanted to ask Eddie if he would be my boyfriend. If he wanted to be. And that had been a few hours ago.

"Should we not say anything to the workers?" I asked suddenly. One of them had told me why they kept the boys and girls on different floors, which I thought was fairly shortsighted, since there were boys who liked boys and girls who liked girls, but I hadn't said anything at the time. And I didn't want to say anything now. "I don't want them to move us into different rooms. Not because I want to spend all night kissing, but I like our room and..." I paused and grinned. "And because maybe I want to spend all night kissing."