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How this woman talked me—a guy who’s up before the rooster crows—into abandoning my post and staying up all night is no mystery. I'm madly in love with her.
Meanwhile, Ash figured it out the moment she noticed me using an accessibility feature on my phone. All she said was, "Oh, do you have dyslexia? Cool. I have ADHD. Our brains are going to be best friends." Then she high-fived me, and that was the moment I started to fall.
She snorts, and I catalog that, too. I love making her laugh. Now if I can only make her swoon.
And I pine. For every second of the next hour, I pine.
"No. Grief is a beautiful thing, son. It's a sign that you had someone in your life who mattered that much to you."
"If you take away the pain of grief, you take away the love from life. You can't have loss without love."
"Do you really not see yourself?" he asks incredulously. "Ash, you are beautiful. I haven't been able to take my eyes off you since the moment we met. There isn't a girl alive who can compare with you."
I don't know how I'll ever come back from fake dating the love of my life.
"Yes! Because you have another boyfriend, and Noah's mom said he came to Sugar Maple to win you back. You can't have two boyfriends!" "I have two boyfriends," Ava D says, putting her hand on her hip. "Liam and Josiah." "Josiah said he only wants to marry me but he has to pretend to like you cuz you pull his hair at church if he doesn't," Lottie says. "Fine, then I'll have to marry Liam." "Yuck!" a little boy I can only assume is Liam says. "I never want to get married. Girls are gross." "Put a cork in it, Liam," Ava D says. "We're gettin’ married."
If Pride and Prejudice has taught me anything, it's the significance of a hand flex.
"Your future wife is going to be the luckiest woman in the world." "I'm not worried about making anyone happy but you," he says. Why my heart stutters at that, I have no idea.
"Since the day we met, you … bewitched me." "P&P reference. I approve."
And with that, my lips find hers in a kiss both gentle and earnest. And when that kiss is done, we kiss again and again until the sun sets and the moon appears. Until the stars align.
“If you’re not safe to fall with the people you’ve caught, who are you safe to fall with?”
"Farm Boy, we have the kind of love that could last the ages. We could be the couple everyone else holds up as their ideal. Girls would turn down men who don't look at them the way you look at me. Guys would hold out for a girl who's as obsessed with them as I am with you. We are it. I've gone my whole life wanting to feel the way you make me feel. Now it's my turn to wait for you to catch up."
