Happily Never After

by Lynn Painter

“Love isn’t the problem. The problem is the way society promotes it as if it’s the only thing that matters in life when it doesn’t even exist.”

“But I do think love is a gamble and most people walk away from the table with less than they brought.”

feelings eventually come with chemistry whether you want them to or not.”

If love was real, you couldn’t just fall out of it.

It was weird how comfortable I felt with him already,

“If you still want this when you’re sober, Soph, I am yours—night or day,”

I realized that I was very into her. Not into this, this chemistry-gone-wild thing that existed between us, but into her.

I was falling ...

I couldn’t get her out of my fucking head.

Max😩

Max had become my favorite person.

The truth was that I half suspected I was in love with her already.

she was all I could think about. All the time.