It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2)
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But for better or for worse, Taylor Jewel was a part of me, and I was a part of her.
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Toxic mentality to have in a friendship.
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I ate a hot dog. Then I went home.
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How i socalize when people are at my house
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He was a boy unafraid of hat hair, of looking stupid.
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And he should win an award for that
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“Look after him for me. Will you do that?”
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This is concerninv
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promise.” I wondered what he was promising. I also wondered if one day, Taylor and I would be like that—on the phone while our kids got ready for the prom.
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Not a fat chance in hell
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I could already feel the night slipping away from me.
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The man is clearly going through it
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“Did your mom make you come?”
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Asking the real questions
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Kissing him, being with him like that… it was cool lemonade with a long straw, sweet and measured and pleasurable in a way that felt infinite.
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Wtf. Odd metaphor
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Neither of us moved. He reached out and wound my hair around his fingers like a spool of yarn. “I love how soft your hair is,” he said.
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DOes hehave a thing for hair? He keeps touching it
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“I just—want to always know that you’re okay. It’s important to me.”
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It is giving gentleman
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Our dad was never gonna win a Father of the Year award. He was flawed, that was for sure. But when it counted, there at the end, he came home. He said all the right things. He made our mom happy. Conrad just couldn’t see it. He didn’t want to.
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Ummm sorry what?? Hot fucking take
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I’d never appreciated enough just what kind of man he was.
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Finally. Belly the parent hater is no more.
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“I dare you to kiss me, old-school style. I’ve learned a lot since the last time.”
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In fronto her ex. Your brother. Who you claim to love. Ew
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But he had made it be over.
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Stop blaming him for all your problems
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Belly stayed home with me and we played more poker and we watched The Simpsons a lot.
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My dream date. And he knows that.
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If anyone had corrupted her, it was Conrad, not me. Even though I was the one who bought the tequila, not him.
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Wait...run that back. You are seriously blamikng Conrad.