Serious Kiss

"You know what I want?" Nadine asked. We were lying on two blow-up rafts in the center of my dirt-flat backyard, tanning our legs. "You want NASA to invent ice cream that makes you weightless," I said. Nadine laughed. "Yeah, that too. But you know what I really want?" Of course I knew. I sighed. "Me, too." "Wouldn't it be nice?" "So nice." I tried to imagine it. The it supreme: Love. "I think love feels like coming home," I said, adding, "if you actually like where you live." Nadine laughed again. "I think love feels like...," she paused, looked over at me, then we both said the exact same thing at the exact same time. "Love is a serious kiss."Hogan, Mary is the author of 'Serious Kiss', published 2005 under ISBN 9780060722067 and ISBN 0060722061.