our tongues touch , and she kisses me back for a fraction of a second- her mouth is so warm and wet and mint-y from the gum she 's chewin g and my heart 's pulsing spikes of adrenal ine throug h my veins , which is exciting and animali stic and primal , but maybe not quite what i was expecting , because i thought kissing lauren would be like the epic kisses in bogie films , like the string section would kick in and i 'd get that swirling feeling baback 's playing produces , and lauren would pause to gaze at me and say , '' i like that .