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“You’re honestly trying to tell me that those two aren’t in love?” “I never said they weren’t in love.” Chuckling, she added, “Only that they’re not together.”
While the rest of his friends had long since abandoned their girlfriends and dates, Gibsie hadn’t taken more than three steps away from Claire all night.
Because every part of me loved every part of her. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
It hurt to look at her. To feel how deeply I felt and know that I wasn’t good for her.
“We’re mirrors, Joe,” I told him, taking his hand and placing it on my cheek. “Everything you feel for me is reciprocated. It’s mirroring back at you.”
“Just wanted you to know that you’re someone’s favorite person in the world.”
It felt like my life was on a constant loop of reruns, repeating the same scene, the same pain, day after day, year after year, until it broke me. Still, I went through the motions of comforting my little sister and assuring her that it wasn’t her fault, which was true.
“If you want money, you can make that for yourself,” Mam replied. “You don’t need a man to do that for you.”
“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.” Smiling fondly, she recrossed her ankles, switching them up, and leaned forward in her seat. “He’s your friend, Aoife, and you’re his. Never mind loving one another, that’s the easy part, you and Joey like each other. You enjoy one another’s company, and I can promise you that all of those wonderful aspects of your
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“I’m here when I don’t want to be, when I would rather be anywhere else on this planet—and that includes a coffin—but I’m here because you called. Because you need me. Because they need me. Even though being inside this house makes me want to peel my skin off. I’m fucking here. If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know, then I don’t know what to say. I really don’t.”
“Think about your future.” “I don’t have one of those anymore.” “Yes, you do.” “No.” I shook my head and yanked the door open. “He took her away from me.”
Crying. Ow.
“I’m scared to be in my own head,
“The worse shit gets in my life, the louder the voice gets, louder and louder and louder, until it’s literally screaming in my head, and I can’t focus on anything other than doing the one thing that I know that will quieten it down.”
“I’ve loved your daughter for six years,” Joey finally broke his silence by saying. “I can easily love her for another eighteen.”
kill ya before I let you leave me. Do ya hear me? I’ll burn this fucking house to the ground with you and your cunts in it before I let ya go!”
Ouch
“Return my grandson’s heart to him, and he’ll start living again.”
The light in her eyes slowly dimmed into the darkness. I watched it happen. Powerless, I witnessed her turning into a ghost.
Being with her was like breathing. I didn’t know I needed the air, but I knew that I would die without it.
The stupid fucking journal I’d been encouraged to keep in hospital felt unbearably heavy in my hands, filled with more darkness than I knew what to do with.
“Maybe before they moved on, someone wanted to make sure his first love had a fighting chance with her first love.”
“Finders keepers, Joey love. You’re mine now.”
