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His eyes looked so sad, and his cheeks were streaked with tears, but he raised his hand and waved back at me. “Hi.”
gibsie :(((
It couldn’t hurt when I was Gibsie, because Gibsie was my armor, and humor was my sword.
:(
One: Hugh was my brother. Two: Bethany was my sister. Three: Claire was mine.
My fear rested in my inability to love her the right way. In the potential I had to hurt her beyond repair or recourse. The same way he hurt me.
SOBS
Gibsie belonged to the rest of the world. Gerard belonged just to me.
“Bella’s a… What’s the word those girls in pink use in the film, babe?” Gerard asked, twirling a finger around aimlessly. “An ugly clit?” “A fugly slut, Gerard,” I corrected with a smile. “But full marks for attempting a Mean Girls reference.”
LMMAOOOOOO
“Have you come off your medication?” Concern filled her eyes. “Because I’ve noticed you’ve been sleepwalking a lot more this summer.” “Nope,” I replied with a shit-eating grin. “Still taking my pill a day to keep the voices away.” “Oh, Gerard, you know that’s not what you have to take it for.” “Which Gerard are you talking to?”
HELP MEEEE LMFAO
Every ounce of joy in my heart evaporated. “Don’t do this.”
:(
“You okay, Gibs?” Fucked in the head and getting progressively worse by the day. “You know me, Johnny lad, I’m always grand,” I replied, leaning against the windowsill as I spoke. “Why’d you ask?” “Don’t know,” he replied, and I didn’t have to be with him to know that he was scratching his jaw. It was a trait of his that I had grown accustomed to. “Just felt like I should.”
this makes me so sad
“Hi, Gibs,” the smallest of the three acknowledged with a shy smile.
SHANNON MY BABYYYY
“One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war.” “Five, six, seven, eight, I use this hand to masturbate.”
LMFAOOOOOOOO Im SCREAMING
Shannon Lynch was his endgame, and Johnny Kavanagh was hers.
MY BABIESSS
same as Seany’s,
SEANYYYYYY :(
“Because you don’t love me the right way,” she whispered, leaning into my touch. “The way I need you to love me.” She reached up and covered my hands with hers. “The way I love you.”
oh :(
Gerard shot back before reaching over to ruffle Shannon’s hair affectionately. “Keep that head up, little Shannon.” He offered her a reassuring wink. “Everything’s grand.”
i love themmn
“No,” Lizzie countered heatedly. “What would be going too far is telling him that Peter Biggs saved the wrong child from the wat—”
girl... why the FUCK would u say that
“It’s because of my position I can judge you,” Joey countered evenly. “Don’t be me, kid. Be better.”
SOBS
I held on to my virginity tighter than Johnny held on to his dreams of the pros.
LMAOOO
“Nobody knows how Gibsie’s feeling except Gibsie, so please let’s just give him the benefit of the doubt here.”
PERIOD SHANNONNNNN
Ignoring Johnny’s words of warning, Joey looked to me and repeated, “Who are we fighting, Gussie?”
GUSSIE LMAO
Once the button clicked up, Joey opened the driver’s door, cigarette balancing between his lips, and reached inside. Another clicking noise sounded a moment later, and he called out, “Do you have the sugar, Gus?”
ouu i love joey so much
“I’m embarrassed.” I turned my head to look at her. “Don’t be.” “Yeah, okay.” She rolled her eyes. “Oh look. I’m cured.”
LMFAOOO
He stared at me for a long beat before a smile spread across his face. “No, you’re not.” The way he said it, so confident and self-assured, instantly had my back up.
why did i giggle hehshsshsshse
“Feelings make you a whole lot less concerned with how you feel in the moment than how she is feeling.”
OH FAWK I MISS JOHNNY AND SHANNON SO BAD
When I strolled into the Biggses’ kitchen later that night, I was aghast I tell you, a-fucking-ghast, to see Jamie Kelleher sitting on my chair at the table.
LMAOOOO
“All good, Joe,” she replied, catching ahold of his chin with her small hand. “You?” To anyone else, it might look like she was staring into his eyes with loving affection, and hell maybe she was, but I had a feeling that she was checking for something. His sobriety. “All good, Molloy,” he quietly assured her with a wink
sobs
“What’s wrong?” I bit out. “Jealous much?” “On the contrary,” he tossed back, jaw ticking. “I’ve developed a hernia from the weight it’s taking me to give a fuck!”
LMAOOOO
“You heard Shan. Mind your language, kid,” Joey barked in a far more authoritarian tone than their sister had used, and like a good little pup, Tadhg bowed down to the alpha of their family pack.
I LOOOOOOOVE JOEYYYYY JOEYYY ILY
“I’m a barrister,” he explained, dressed in a designer suit, with sunglasses perched on his nose. He even had his hair slicked back like one of those corporate lawyers in the movies. “Like my dad.”
IM CRYING
“Yet,” I corrected with a smile. “I’m so fucking glad your grandmother died when she did.” “Wow, thanks, Gibs.”
LMAO
“But I feel safe around Gibs,” she told me. “Aside from Johnny, he’s the only other boy whose hands I would willingly put my life in.”
aww i love them
I pointed at Claire as inconspicuously as I could at the same time that she not so secretly pointed at me.
IM SCREAMING
“And leave my baby hanging?” His tone was gentle and coaxing.
SCREAMING CRYIBF
His breath hitched and he dropped his phone, but instead of taking his eyes off the page, he slowly sank to the ground and felt around for it with a trembling hand. “Fuck…” His voice cracked and I watched as this huge boy, with limitless popularity and pull, broke down in front of us. “Fuck!” Head bowed, he clutched at his hair and continued to stare at the letter. “Fuck, Gibs.” A pained cry escaped him. “Not you, lad.” His big shoulders racked with shudders. “Not fucking you, Gibs!”
im crying so bad rn
“Lad,” Johnny chuckled. “You threw an entire bucket of water on an open fire.” “Only because I thought the flames were getting out of control.” “Gib, the fire was in the fireplace.”
IN SCREAMING
“I don’t watch you sleep, Claire. I listen to you sleep. The entire house does.”
L.AOAOAOll
