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the only issue is that she’s doing it with my teammate, not me.
I know exactly who can handle her, and it’s not him. Not Julio, either.
Maybe there’s part of her—even if it’s buried—that likes my smile.
I shouldn’t hope so, but God, I do.
None of that involves a certain green-eyed baseball player.
I bet he hasn’t thought about me at all.
I’ve spent two years working to be worthy of those words, and now I’m ready to prove it.
No distractions except the ones inside my head.
Not a maw of crushed metal and broken glass. Not blood on leather seats. Not a scream, cut short thanks to a severed windpipe. I can call up the memory so easily, even a decade removed.
You don’t look into your mother’s lifeless eyes as an eleven-year-old and not remember it like someone cut open your skull and branded the image there.
I still showed up for the date we planned—I waited over two hours just in case she’d show—but she ghosted me.
So I just keep that fucking smile plastered on my face.
She also happens to be a brunette.
It’s just, you don’t watch your parents die in front of you and not be a little fucked up, right?
It’s a smile that lights up his already-handsome face,
“You can do anything you set your mind to—that’s never going to be the issue for you.
What if when you look in the mirror, you see your father staring back at you?
And what if you’re dreaming of something else all the while?
“You have eyes, right? Should we go get them checked?” “You’re always beautiful,” he says.
Why aren’t I enough for her, when I know I would treat her better than anyone else in the whole goddamn world?
I’ve loved his eyes since the very first moment I saw them, but right now, they’re just bringing me pain.
Another tear slips down my cheek as my heart cracks, right down the middle.
“Stop lying to yourself for five seconds!”
I shake my head, not trusting myself to speak for a moment. “No,” I whisper. “I was . . . fuck. I was falling for you.”
“I didn’t want to then, and I sure as hell don’t want to now. I want you, Mia. Not just to mess around with, or to be your friend. I want everything we can give each other because I’m falling for you too.”
but I can’t walk away from him. Not when my heart feels so full when he’s around. Not when I’m aware of his presence from the moment he enters a room. Not when my heart is begging to stay with him,
She’s my dark angel, and by the curve of her smile as she looks over her shoulder at me? She knows it.
