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“Claire’s our personal pocket of sunshine.”
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.
My parents had loved each other since childhood, and Mam continued to love Dad even when he didn’t have the strength to love himself.
I just wanted a real relationship. With him.
“Please don’t let me break this,”
“I can’t lose you, Claire.”
“You w...
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Because I loved her. Every part of me. With every bone in my body. Defective and all as I was. I couldn’t help it. It was instinctive. It was ever consuming. It was forever.
bringing with her a smile that shone brighter than any sun over Ballylaggin.
“I don’t want to be your friend anymore.” “You don’t mean that.” “Yeah, I do.”
“I’m not your boyfriend, Claire Biggs, and I’m not your friend.”
“And by trusting that the boy beneath the broken can find his way out of the darkness. It’s not easy. It hurts like hell, and you’ll want to run for the hills at times. And he’ll push away to the point where you doubt your own sanity. But your ability to love him through it is what will make the difference. Because, at the end of the day, that’s all we can do, babe.” She sighed heavily. “Love these boys with our whole hearts, and hope and pray that they’ll pick themselves back up and show us that they’re worth the pain. That they’re worth fighting for.”
The shift in our friendship circle couldn’t have been any clearer when we entered the sixth-year common room a few moments later and were met with what I could only describe as the great divide.
But the lines had been drawn. And I would forever stand with this boy. After all, taming 7 had been the adventure of my lifetime.
