Move over Edward and Bella, because the meadow scene in the Girls Like Girls movie—a new lesbian teen romance that is now streaming on Peacock—is way more passionate, sexy, and emotional than sparkly vampires. I would like to personally thank writer/director Hayley Kiyoko for that, because the Girls Like Girls kiss scene is the heady make-out sesh that young queer women deserve.

Girls Like Girls is a 2026 coming-of-age romance directed by Kiyoko, and co-written by Kiyoko and Stefanie Scott, based on the music video for Kiyoko’s 2015 single of the same name, which Kiyoko also co-directed with Austin S. Winchell. Maya da Costa, in a phenomenal feature debut, stars as 17-year-old Coley, who moves to a new town in rural Oregon the summer before her senior year, following the death of her mother.

Coley is soon adopted by a local teen girl, Sonya (Myra Molloy), and the two girls fall into that fast-paced, heady, sexually charged, confusing “best friendship” that most queer women no doubt remember from their teen years all too well. Sonya brushes Coley’s hair, applies her lipstick, cuddles up to her during sleepovers, and throws her legs in Coley’s lap in the backseat of her boyfriends car. (And yes, of course, Sonya also has a sort-of boyfriend, Trenton, played Levon Hawke, son of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.) The chemistry between the girls is off the charts, and it all comes to a head when Sonya blows off Trenton to show Coley her “secret spot” by the railroad tracks.

Things are getting pretty silly on the tracks, in no small part thanks to the water bottle full of vodka that Sonya is downing. When Sonya gets the spins, the girl lay down, pressed up against each other’s sides, in a nearby clearing. (A meadow, if you will.) Sonya asks Coley about her mom, and Coley confesses that her mom died by suicide, after a long struggle with her mental health. Sonya wipes away Coley’s tears, telling her “Olive juice,” sounding it out to make it clear that what she really means is, “I love you.”

“Olive juice, too,” Coley responds.

They stare into each other’s eyes. They nuzzle their noses. They breathe in each other’s scent. And then, Sonya leans in and brushes her lips against Coley. She quickly pulls back, uncertain. But whatever she sees in Coley’s eyes gives her the courage to lean in again, for real this time, and basically kiss the every-living crap out of Coley.

This is more than just a kiss. This is a full-blown make-out session. It’s passionate, frantic, sexy, and oh-so romantic. Coley and Sonya just can’t get enough of each other, to the point where Coley fully climbs on top of Sonya right there in the grass. What happens is, frustratingly, left up to the viewer to decide. The scene cuts short, and in the next shot, we see Coley and Sonya have fallen asleep in each other’s arms. Did they do more than just kiss on that grassy hill? Maybe! It’s up to the fanfiction writers to decide, now.

Of course, then stupid Trenton has to text Sonya and totally ruin the moment. Typical boy stuff, nothing new.

But even though it’s short-lived, the Girls Like Girls movie kiss is everything I wanted it to be, and everything that young queer women (who will no doubt be watching and rewatching that scene, now that it’s streaming) deserve. With so few example of Sapphic teen romance stories on our screens, Girls Like Girls gave out a make-out session worthy of the spicy straight teen romances that come out year after year. That is, in fact, something new.