Jodi Picoult: "Peter mengepalkan tangannya ke samping. "Cium aku,...

"Peter mengepalkan tangannya ke samping. "Cium aku," katanya. Dia membungkuk ke arahnya perlahan, sampai wajahnya terlalu dekat untuk fokus. Rambutnya jatuh di bahu Peter seperti tirai dan matanya tertutup. Dia berbau seperti sari apel musim gugur dan matahari miring serta bunyi hawa dingin yang datang. Dia merasakan jantungnya berebut, terperangkap dalam batas-batas tubuhnya sendiri. Bibir Josie mendarat tepat di ujung bibirnya, hampir di pipinya dan tidak cukup di mulutnya. "Aku senang aku tidak terjebak di sini sendirian," katanya malu-malu, dan dia merasakan kata-kata itu, semanis mint."

--- Jodi Picoult

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Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.