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“Did anyone stay in their twenties after high school or did everyone just pass GO to collect a 401k and diapers?”
“I don’t know how to live without you.” And I shake my head quickly as tears pool. “And I don’t want to know how. I don’t want to find out.”
will never learn how to live without you. I couldn’t fucking bear it.”
He is as much a part of me as the sun is a part of the sky, as the Earth is to the universe.
“I won’t ever desert you, love. Not for a goddamn moment. You’re mine to take care of, you understand?”
No one knows me like Lily Calloway. She’s my best friend, and without her—God, what’s the point?
“Because I think she loves you more than she loves sex. And you love her more than you love alcohol, but you two just haven’t let yourselves believe it yet.”
I smile. I love him. More than sex. More than anything.
“Whatever happens, we’re in this together. You and me.” “Lily and Lo,”
“Sometimes the person we think we’ll become is the person we already are, and the person we truly become is the person we least expect.”
She is my past, my present, my future. So when I open the door and slide into the driver’s seat, I’m not surprised that it feels like I’m returning home.
“I confess, that I’d very much like to make love to you.” My heart flips at the last words. We never say make love. We fuck. We screw. We bang. Making love is for the soft-hearted without tar-coated pasts. Lily claims she doesn’t deserve to make love, but I’m determined to change her attitude. “Is it different than fucking?” she asks me with wide eyes. “Very much so.” Frown lines crease her forehead. “How?” “I’ll show you.” Her eyes brighten with possibilities, but she doesn’t insist, doesn’t ask or compel me for more. She waits for me. Just as I asked.
