Fragments (Alabaster Penitentiary, #4)

by Nyla K.

But just know, every moment I’m with you… is fireworks over the ocean.”

“Because I fucking love you!” he shouts in my face, and I falter. “I’ve loved you since the second I saw you, and I don’t understand it! I don’t want to feel this shit… This twisted up ball of need in my chest like fucking disease. I don’t even know if it really is love, that’s how fucked up I am. I never knew what this felt like… until you.”

“Because I want to do everything in my power to make you happy… even when you hate me and refuse to look at me. I want to be next to you all the time… Just breathing the same air as you. I want to hold your hand and kiss your neck, and I want you to want me to… more than I’ve ever wanted anything. I feel like I could slaughter anyone who causes

you pain, including myself. It’s so unbearably fucked up, but I would open a vein and bleed just to make you smile… That has to mean I’m in love with you… Right?”

“It doesn’t matter if I’ve never felt it before. In my soul, I know what this is… I’m desperately in love with you, Lexington, and I never won’t be. Believe me, I’ve tried. Even if it tears us both to shreds… I’m so sorry, baby, but I can’t stop. As long as I’m breathing, I won’t ever sto...

But I want to see this through to the break. No matter how dangerous, or scary, or downright stupid,

I can’t help how starved I am for his rainbow when the clouds part.

Even if it destroys me in the process, from such a sweet, beautiful scorching flame… I can...

Mental illness isn’t your fault, but it is your responsibility.”