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Honestly, I’m probably more like kombucha if I had to categorize myself. Bitter at first taste but then slowly starts to grow on you after you hold your nose and force it down.
Eli is more reserved and nerdy, while his brother is outgoing, cocky, and the life of the party. Both are handsome and smart, even if Lane likes to pretend he’s just a dumb jock for the sake of his campus reputation.
“Anyone who is lucky enough to be a part of your universe will know exactly what they have from the moment you walk in.”
My little brother’s best friend is the one thing in the world that I can’t have, no matter how badly I want her. No matter how badly I’ve wanted her for years. She’s beautiful, and kind, and one hundred percent off-limits.
She may have meant to ask Eli to fulfill her proposal, but too fucking bad because she asked me, and I haven’t been able to sleep since.
Not how I expected to spend my Friday night, but if it means looking after Hallie, then there’s nowhere else I want to be.
Because the truth is, sure, she thought her damn proposal went to the wrong Collins brother, but little did she know it went to the right brother.
There’s no one else in this damn house putting their hands on Hallie Edwards unless it’s me. I’ll make sure of it.
“All of it. Don’t compare yourself to anyone, Hallie. You’re fucking perfect, and I don’t want to hear you say shit like that ever again.”
“Your first kiss isn’t going to be this, Hallie. It’s going to be when you come to me, when you know without a shadow of a doubt that this is what you want.
When you give yourself to me. When I can give you a first kiss that you’ll never forget, the one that ruins you for everyone else after me. You know where to find me if you decide that’s what you want.”
“Thank you for trusting me with something as special as this, Hallie. I promise I’ll take care of you.”
mean, honestly, everything about you. It’s probably why I’ve had a crush on you since I was old enough to realize what crushes are.”
This makes his eyebrow arch. “You had a crush on me, Hallie Girl?”
“As if you didn’t know.” I roll my eyes. “I can still… hardly form a sentence around you without st...
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“And that’s okay,” Hallie says softly. “It’s okay to not fit into the mold other people have placed you in. Why… Why did you need me? Of all people.”
“Because Hallie… you’re the only person that I feel like me around.”
“Don’t worry. I would never let anyone see what’s mine.” Mine?
You’ve never been to heaven until you’ve heard Lane Collins praising you as a good girl, and I will take no opinions on this.
It’s basically like when you were in grade school and you chased a girl around the playground, pulling her hair, flipping her skirt up, being an absolute menace to her in any way you could just because you liked her and had no idea how to tell her. That’s exactly what’s happening between the two of them. They both like fighting too much to give it up.
“You are so disgusting. What makes you think for a second that I want anything to do with you, Landry.” His signature smirk flits to his lips. “I mean… remember last weekend wh—” Suddenly, she’s slapping her hand over his mouth, silencing him completely and dragging him away by his collar. Hallie, Grant, and I are all looking at each other in question.
Kissing Hallie is like coming home. It’s like finding the sign that points to your destination after being lost for so long. Kissing Hallie is fucking everything.
I whisper, dropping my forehead to hers. “I thought it didn’t exist, but you’re living proof that it does, Hallie Girl.”
“I’m glad that it was you, Lane,” I respond. “It’s always been you.”
I’m almost asleep when I think I hear, “And it’ll always be you, Hallie Girl.”
“You make everything so easy. Breathing, being the man I want to be. You make me want to be better, Hallie.” “You’re already more than you even realize.”
am in love with Hallie Edwards, and I may not have meant to fall in love with her, but I did, and I’m not walking away and giving her up. Proposal terms or not.
This may have started as me teaching you, Hallie, but it’s really you that’s been teaching me all along. You’ve been teaching me how to love.”
“I know a lot of you here tonight are some of my biggest fans. But the truth is, I’m Hallie’s biggest fan, and I always have been. I need the world to know that I’m in love with Hallie Edwards, and I’m not afraid to say it to anyone.”
“I’m in love with you, Hallie. I love every single thing about you, and there’s nothing in this world that I want more than to be with you. For all of the world to see you’re mine… and I’m yours. You wondered if the way that I felt was true and if I ever noticed you before that first day. And the answer is yes.”
“AliensRReal? Sound familiar? Yeah… that’s me. I’ve been your number one fan since the day you started, and that’s never going to change. I’ve wanted you for a long
time, long before that day. It didn’t take until then for me to notice you; it just gave me the courage to finally step up to the plate.” He’s… Lane is AliensRReal? He’s been following the podcast from… the beginning?
should have told you that I was in love with you before now. And someone wise once told me that I can be anyone I wanna be, and I wanna be the guy who gets you, Hallie Edwards.
want to be the guy that watches documentaries with you instead of going to parties. I want to be the guy that you call when you get accepted to film school.
I want to be the guy that helps you pick out T-shirts with funny sayings and the guy that kisses you in the rain. I want to be the guy that gets to love you. I want to be the gu...
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“Lane… I’m sorry.” I pause. “For last night. For pushing you away and not communicating with you. I… I was scared, and I shouldn’t have treated you that way. It wasn’t fair to you.”
