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This one had a familiar look about him, with blond hair and a goofy-as-fuck smile. “Howdy, friend.”
Ahh gotta love Gibs
“He said you’re off your trolley on drugs and I really need to borrow some of those.”
Love gibs
Yeah, he was a few crayons short of a full box.
“You don’t own me.” “Well, that’s bad fucking luck on my account, because you sure as shit own me!”
Because every part of me loved every part of her. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I fucking reveled in all of it. She had my heart in knots and my head spinning.
replied, reaching up to cup the side of my face. “It’s you, Molloy.” He tipped my chin up, forcing me to look at him. “It’s you.”
“It’s you,” he repeated gruffly, fingers tightening on my waist. “I pick you. Every single time.”
When she told me that she loved me, she meant it, and it was as unsettling as it was addictive, because if she only felt a fifth for me of what I felt for her, then I was one lucky son of a bitch.
“Ride or die, Joe.”
Where she saw weakness, I saw strength. Where she saw fear, I saw resilience.
“Because I’m only doing life for you.”
Girls were dangerous creatures with hidden meanings behind every word they spurted, and Molloy was no exception to the rule.
“But now I’m carting an extra seven pounds of gorgeous around.”
“Are ya completely pussy-whipped by this one, boy?” “As opposed to just plain whipping her?”
I didn’t want marriage or babies, but the thought of her having those things with someone who wasn’t me made me want to die.
Come on bro. No marriage is a cop out
“My hole is like a volcanic onion ring.
Two Pink Lines
Omfggggg
My life was over.
“You’re not staying the night?” “Not tonight.” “Why?” “Because if I wanted to get the cold shoulder, then I can get plenty of those at home,” I replied, hand tightening on the wheel.
Yikes
“You call and I come running,” he told them in a gruff tone, but his eyes were locked on mine as he spoke. “Every time.”
“You just look sort of shiny.” I swallowed. “Shiny?” “Yeah.” He nodded. “Kind of like you’re glowing.” That would be your baby.
“Johnny’s on a time-out.”
“You’re stealing my center! Give him back,” the boy called out, coming around to the side of the car to poke his head through the driver’s window. “Hey, Cap, how’s it going?” he said, smiling into the back seat at Johnny. “I’ve been looking everywhere for you.”
“Hey, is your dick okay, man? I’m really sorry about that. I hope I didn’t squash your balls.” “Go fuck yourself, Gerard.”
whatever I said or didn’t say could and would be used against me in the court of Aoife Molloy.
“I’ll stay, Joe,” I whispered, clutching onto his forearm for dear life. “If you will.”
“Faster than a whore at a brothel, good sir,” Gibsie called over his shoulder, not missing a beat. “Egg?”
“Are you old enough to use the cooker without your mammy?” “I doubt it,” he replied honestly. “It’s my first time.”
What a strange bastard.
That he is… that he is.
“You’re already opening up to me about your family. We’re bonding.” “We aren’t bonding,”
Wrong, wrong, wrong, my body assured me.
“You’re not coming back, are you?” “I can’t,” I strangled out, willing her to understand that my sanity was at stake. “If I go back inside that house, I’ll kill them both.”
“Goodbye, Joey,” was all she said, before slamming the door shut and walking away.
“How you live? What you live with? I thought I knew about it. I thought I understood, but I don’t, Joe. I never had a clue,” she admitted hoarsely.
“I’m seeing a lot of red flags shooting up around us now. Ones I never used to see before tonight, but can’t get out of my head ever since.”
“I’m saying that your life scares me, and maybe you were right when you told me that you were a bad idea for me.”
“Because I was nearly raped tonight—by a man that looks just like you! And I was put in that position because of you! Because you didn’t care enough to pick up the phone and tell me what was happening. Because you didn’t spare a thought for me when you left and didn’t come back!”
She blamed me as much as I blamed me.
I didn’t want to fall in love with her and I did. I didn’t want to let her in and I did. Everything I never wanted to do, I did with her, for her, because I loved her. Because she refused to accept nothing less.
Had I listened to my head from the start, I wouldn’t be here.
“I love you.” “Joey!” “I’ll be seeing ya, Molloy.” And then I climbed out of her window and slipped into the night.
The assault at the hands of Joey’s father had lasted no longer than ninety seconds at the most, but those ninety seconds had been the most terrifying of my life.
I love him so much that it blinds me.”
“God, I was such a sanctimonious fool.” “You believed it at the time.” “Yeah, I really did.” “Ah, but Paul Rice was never Joey Lynch, was he?”
“You spent four years of your youth settling for comfortable with a boy you had nothing in common with, while your heart never once wandered from a boy who made your whole face light up when he walked in the room.”
“Don’t ever leave me, okay?” I strangled out. “I might be on the verge of becoming a mam, but that doesn’t mean that I’ll stop needing mine.”
“Meaning that when you peel back all the layers of yours and Joey’s relationship, taking the flirting, raging hormones, and the physical aspect out of the equation, there’s a rock-solid foundation underneath,” she told me. “One that’s based on friendship, and respect, and trust.”
Aoife Molloy had become the single most important person in my world.
Because, regardless of the consequences incurred by the rest of my family, I was willing to go against everything I had been programed to protect in order to protect her.
What other way was there to greet the boy you’d spent years loving? The boy whose father had tried to molest you. The boy who you ripped the heart out of the last time you saw him.
