Alex nodded. He'd heard the same sort of grumbling among the older students, girls and boys, but...
"I'm sure they have. Done what we did..." He rubbed his palm down his thigh; it tickled, remembering the feel of her body, under her shirt.
Could that happen? Could something so horrible happen between them, to make them not want to kiss? Or touch? To make them not friends anymore?
"I don't want that to happen," he said quietly, then looked at her. "At all..." He toyed with the water, twisting at the cap, thinking about her and how good it felt to kiss her.