title: A Kiss Between Friends (Love Stories)
author:  Erin Haft 
description: tt can tell her best friend Miles Wilson anything...except that she's falling in love with him. Samantha knows that Miles would never think of her as girlfriend material. So she keeps her love for him a secret. It's a lot easier--and safer--that way.Everything changes when Miles tells Samantha that he's in love--with China Henry, the most beautiful (and unattainable) girl at Jefferson High. But Miles can't get a date with China unless Samantha helps him. Can Samantha put her true feelings aside and go along with his scheme? Or will she finally spill her heart to Miles, and risk losing him forever?
zlib_text: ALMOST A KISS
  
  "What's so funny?" he asked, seeing her smile.
  
  She could feel the blush rising in her cheeks. "Nothing really."
  
  "There is. You're thinking something funny."
  
  His amazing turquoise eyes searched her face. A shock of dark red hair drooped
  over his forehead. She could touch her hand to his cheek... "I'd better say
  good night," she said.
  
  He looked into her eyes. "You want to touch me."
  
  She clenched her fist. "No."
  
  He smiled, a sweet smile. "Yes you do. You want to touch me. Go ahead. I
  promise I won't bite."
  
  She should go to her room, she thought, and shut the door and push the chair
  under the doorknob.
  
  "Go ahead," he whispered. "This is your weekend for firsts."
  
  She touched his cheek. Trembling, she trailed her fingertips down into the
  faint roughness of his beard.
  
  He sighed, then put his big hand over hers and curved her palm around his
  mouth. His lips moved in the heart of her hand.
  
  She gasped and jerked back as if she had touched fire.
  
  He dropped his hand and 