Free Give Me Fever by Niobia Bryant

halfheartedly eating his s’more. He is handsome , she thought. It’s not like I’m crazy to find him attractive … but those glasses, the allergies, the inhaler! I have got to be incredibly horny.
    Kaeden looked over at her suddenly. “Your marshmallows are burning.”
    Jade jumped up as two white globs fell off the skewer and into the fire. “I did this way better earlier when I didn’t have an audience,” she joked as she slid more marshmallows on the skewer.
    “Mine was delicious,” Kaeden assured his family.
    Jade smiled over at him just as he took off those glasses to wipe them clean. She looked away quickly.
    Maybe I should call Darren and get into some really raunchy phone sex. Or text sex?
    Jade shook her head as she slid the melted marshmallows between the layers of chocolate and graham crackers. While the men all talked and laughed as if it wasn’t the middle of the night, Jade focused on making her group members two gooey treats each.
    She side-eyed Kaeden as he reached over to pick up her book from her camp chair. Her eyes took in the fine silver hairs. His bronzed complexion. Broad shoulders. Long limbs. Big feet. Very big feet.
    Her eyes darted to his crotch between his bent legs. Her cheeks flushed at the noticeable bulge. She jumped to her feet. “Here we go, fellas. S’mores.”
    Everyone was sitting around the crackling campfire and Jade circled around them offering them a paper plate holding the treats. She offered the plate to Kaleb. He looked up at her and winked. “Thank you, Miss Prince,” he said, mockingly polite, before shooting Kaeden a “see there” look.
    And she came to Kaeden, whose head was buried in her book. “Kaeden, would you like…”
    He looked up at her questioningly, kind of squinting his face like he was trying to focus his vision via his glasses. Jade immediately thought of Steve Urkel, Robert Johnson, Bill Gates, and Napoleon Dynamite like a slideshow.
    All of her silly notions of wanting to jump Kaeden Strong’s bones disappeared…just…like…that.
    “Yes, Jade.”
    “Huh?” she said.
    He smiled and reached for another s’more from the plate. “Thanks,” he told her.
    “No, Kaeden, thank you ,” she stressed with a smile.
    He looked confused, but it didn’t matter because Jade wasn’t confused any longer.

Chapter 7
    “Do you remember the time Kaeden tried to cut his own hair and took a chunk out of his hairline big as an apple?” Kaleb asked, reaching over to muss Kaeden’s head.
    “Oh no!” Jade cried out before she laughed.
    Kael chuckled as he slapped his knee with one of his beefy hands. “His mama wanted to punish him by sending him to school just like that.” He looked over at his son. “But I couldn’t do it to you, son, so I shaved you bald.”
    “I don’t know if I should thank you or not,” Kaeden drawled in his resonant voice.
    The men all laughed and Jade tried hard to hold her laughter in with her hand to her mouth as she looked at Kaeden with sympathetic eyes. “How old were you?”
    “Twelve,” the men all said in unison.
    Kaeden dropped his head into his hands.
    “That was about all the mischief Kaeden brought me and my wife.” Kael reminisced with a twinkle in his eyes. “He was usually stuck up under his mother in the house while these other pranksters roamed the farm and found any and everything to get into.”
    “I have severe allergies,” he insisted in explanation.
    Kade nodded and he leaned forward to brace his elbows on his knees. “That’s very true. I must admit I’m surprised we haven’t had a Kaeden during this trip…yet.”
    “A Kaeden?” Jade asked, more than curious.
    Kaeden groaned and shook his head, wishing his family could reminisce on something or someone else besides him.
    Kahron stretched his long, jean-clad legs out before him. “That’s a medical emergency involving insects.”
    “There was the bee sting in 1986.”
    “The red ant bite in 1992.”
    “The wasp incident in