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Moments before the pain in my lungs exploded and everything went dark, I saw it. A halo of light. An orb of pure sunshine. Her. I saw her. And that’s when I knew. That’s when I knew…
“You’re my favorite person in the whole wide world, and I would swap everyone for you. Even Hugh.”
“When they said someone had been saved from the water. I prayed for it to be you.”
walked. “I think they wanted your dad to save Bethany.”
“I didn’t,” I admitted honestly. “I wanted to keep you most of all.”
“What about me?” he whispered as a lone tear trickled down his cheek. “Who’ll keep me safe?” “I will, silly,” I replied, releasing his hand so that I could give him a hug. “I’ll keep you safe, Gerard.”
“I mean it,” he urged, turning to look at me now. “I can’t lose another person I love.” “You love me?” He nodded sadly as another tear trickled down his cheek. “I love you most of all.”
my babies
“I don’t see anyone.” His lips tipped up in the smallest of smiles before he added, “Except for you.”
My eyes widened. “He looks bad at you?” “He looks evil at me,” he explained. “Like he wants to hurt me.”
omg
Her senses became my senses, and I found a way to anchor myself in the moment.
Claire Biggs had a lot of things. My back. My attention. My heart. My soul. Yeah, she had all of me and that wasn’t an exaggeration.
The girl with her arms around me. My girl.
“They worry about each other.” If I could sew this girl to my skin without causing her an ounce of harm, then I would do it in a heartbeat. That’s how vital she was to my life. How essential she was to my existence. If drugs were to Joey Lynch what Claire Biggs was to me, then there was no amount of rehab that could sway me to kick the habit. Because she was the habit of my lifetime.
From as far back as I could remember, my mind had always been very clear about three things. One: Hugh was my brother. Two: Bethany was my sister. Three: Claire was mine.
If I knew nothing else in this world, then I knew that I loved Claire Biggs.
chest. “It’s all about priorities, babe.” “And I’m yours?” I teased. “Always,” he confirmed
Gibsie belonged to the rest of the world. Gerard belonged just to me.
“Yeah, well, your pillow pal certainly does.”
😭
“I don’t remember agreeing to him being ungrounded, Sadhbh.” “I don’t remember your name being on my birth certificate.”
he eats him up everytime
The sky was blue outside. The birds were out. The sun was shining. It was another blissful morning. And I wanted to scream.
I stuck in there with her, taking on her mood swings and erratic behavior because I loved her like a sister,
“When isn’t she mean, Claire?” he replied flatly.
literally
“Peace,” Katie mumbled under her breath. “We would have had peace without her.”
Katie speaks nothing but the truth
“Speak for yourselves,” Patrick interjected, following on from Katie’s yawn with a huge one of his own. “I wouldn’t piss on either one of you if you were on fire.”
pls 😭
Because this boy had always been my favorite boy. My favorite friend, person, human, everything.
“What did you smoke in that tent with him?” my brother accused,
“If I wanted suggestions from people, I would ask my actual friends,” Lizzie bit out.
girl stfu 😭
“No, asshole,” Lizzie snapped back, rising to her feet. “I’m just honest.”
i’m literally begging she gets kicked from the friend group like she is so miserable i can’t
I knew from the very beginning that what Johnny had with Shannon was permanent. I’d never seen a fella plagued more by his feelings than Johnny. He loved the bones of that girl and, yeah, it took him his usual amount of time to predict, ponder, panic, and finally process his feelings, but he had. Once his mind was set, it was a done deal. Shannon Lynch was his endgame, and Johnny Kavanagh was hers.
peppering kisses to her face. When he tucked her hair behind her ear to kiss her temple and then trailed his thumb over the little dimple in her chin before pressing a kiss to the tip of her nose, I audibly crooned. “Aww!” I loved temple kisses. Forehead kisses, too. And nuzzling noses were the cream of the crop. Those intimate forms of affection were my favorite, and my bestie received an abundance of both on the daily from her lover.
2 couples introduced and yet they’re still the best one 🤣
“A lot you’d know about putting anything in girls’ mouths.” Lizzie was quick to defend me. “Get back in your box, asshole.”
She’s so enjoyable when she’s not taking her Trauma out on others
“He broke my goddamn nose, Hugh!” “Pity he didn’t break your neck while he was at it!”
All this cause he with Lizzie 😭😭
Seeing his best friends outnumbered three to two, Patrick Feely rewrapped his sandwich in tinfoil before rising to his feet. “Fuck my life,”
he’s so tired of their shit 😭
“Did you just call me ugly?” “Did you just call me fat?”
🤏🏾🤏🏾
“You’re always taking his side,” Lizzie snapped, throwing her hands up. “Every goddamn time, Claire.”
i wonder why that is 🤔
Our stories were entangled, and while I felt fucking terrible for all she’d been through, it wasn’t my fault.
exactly
I didn’t hurt Caoimhe Young. I didn’t do that. I wasn’t the one to blame, and somehow I’d managed to become the sole target of her sister’s anger and grief.
She would never say sorry. She would never stop trying to turn our friends against me. She would never stop blaming me.
my heart hurts for him
Her words were poison, and if she knew my truth and used it against me, I would stop working. I knew I would. She would use my pain as a bullet and shoot right at my heart. She would find a way to blame me. They all would. That’s why she didn’t know. That’s why none of them knew. That’s what I had to remember to forget.
😕
“I’ll give you all my weekends, Claire Biggs,” His hand reached for mine, fingers entwining in that familiar way I treasured. “I’ll give you my weekdays, too.”
they’re so cute i could cry
“First, because I happen to believe that no time is ever wasted when I’m with you.”
“And second, you’re my favorite person in the whole world. There’s no one I would rather spend my time with.”
“I think you know exactly what you can do for me.” She slid her car keys across the counter and said, “I’ll be there in ten.”
yeah let’s call the police immediately
“You don’t look seventeen.”
she’s so disgusting
“Oh my god, you put black pudding on it!”
gross claire
And that was how I spent the rest of the evening, on Gerard Gibson’s shoulders, painting his world just a little bit brighter.
“But whenever I daydream, you’re the star of the show.”
folded
“He’ll always be an addict, with no promise of anything beyond today.”
I’m sooo tired of crying from this series
“You know, if you freed the poor creature, he’d do it for himself.”
😭
“Reginald lives with me full-time!” he shouted back at me, throwing his hands up. “And I have never asked you to provide a single caterpillar in child support for him. No, because I dig up all the critters myself. Every day. So don’t act all high and mighty with me, baby!”
what am i reading 😭😭
