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To the girls who love hockey, especially when it’s written in ink.
not a hockey girl, but i'm intrigued with this dedication 🤍
“I haven’t talked to you all day. I’m thinking this punishment is a bit cruel,” I whisper against her ear. She shifts to look at me. “Not talking to me is punishment?” “The worst kind.”
“Good to know. I’ll throw out all my hair ties because Aiden Crawford likes it when girls wear their hair down.” Wrapping the bandage around her ankle, I glance at her. “Not girls. You.”
“This is another thing I can hold over your head to make you do what I want.” I flutter my lashes. “You don’t need blackmail to get me to do what you want, Summer.”
“So you came to the farthest library on campus?” she presses. “Took me three tries.” “For what?” “To find this one.” “The others didn’t have what you were looking for?” I smile. “Not even close.”
He stares at me like that is the stupidest thing he’s ever heard. “I’m wherever you are, Summer.”
“You dance?” I ask when he lifts my hand onto his shoulder. “No,” he says. “But I want to with you.”
It’s the tea my dad used to buy me, and there’s a note attached to the bottom. For all those headaches I give you - A.
“If you want it, you’re going to come to me.” He lifts my hair from the shirt, pushing it back. “The next time I have you, it won’t be to prove something or to win some competition. It’s going to be because you know the only guy that can satisfy you is me.”
“Well, you said it’s your favorite thing. If it makes you happy I’d do it.”
This girl is fucking sunshine embodied, and she has no clue.
“I forgot how much you feel like home.” Home. She thinks I feel like home.
“I know you can take care of yourself but let me do it. Just this once.”
“You’re my sunflower, Summer.”
Any place that made you who you are, has to be the closest thing to heaven on earth.”
You’re beautiful, strong, kind, and so deserving of love that I hope I can prove it to you in this lifetime.
This fucking guy. He’s ridiculously attractive and sweet. I didn’t stand a chance.
“Why did you come get me tonight?” “I’ll always come get you, Summer. Even when you don’t want me to.”
“You’re nauseatingly perfect. I think I really like you.”
“You being you is enough.”
“My sincerest apologies for ruining your plans.” “Worth it,”
I’m all in. Mind, body, and soul, or whatever the fuck that movie Summer made me watch said. Down to my core, I’m hers.
“I have you forever, Summer. If those words come tomorrow or ten years from now, I’ll still be here to hear them. I love you enough for the both of us.”
“I love your patience and how ridiculously sweet and caring you are. The way you make me feel like what I want matters. I feel lost without you, Aiden.” She smiles wide. “I want to do everything with you, and I want you to do everything with me.”
“You and me, Crawford, that’s the only way I want it.” “Good. Because I love you, and I’m not letting you go.”
Summer’s presence is luminescent. She’s the last fragment of sunlight in the overwhelming darkness.
“And you still mean all that stuff about the future?” she asks, toying with the strings of my hoodie. “I fully intend to spend the rest of my life with you, Summer.” “I love you.” She scrunches her nose. “Like, a lot.” “I love you, too, Preston. Like, a lot.”
“Who are you, and what have you done with Summer?” I tease. “She fell in love,” she says like it’s a big inconvenience.
Her five-year plan has been thoroughly dismantled, but mine has just begun, and she is its focal point.
Summer is my sun, and I’m the simple planet revolving in her orbit.
“You’re stuck with me, Crawford.” “Good because I love you, Preston. Like, a lot.” “I love you, too. Like, a lot.”
When I hold her like this, I realize my entire world fits in my arms. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Would’ve never thought the stubborn psychology student would willingly carry my children.”
Because when I look into his eyes, all the years of unwavering love come fluttering back, and I know for certain that he’s the best decision I ever made.
when I look into his eyes, all the years of unwavering love come fluttering back, and I know for certain that he’s the best decision I ever made.
