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It’s raining today, just as it had been raining yesterday and the day before. Just as it would likely be raining tomorrow.
Washington?
The man standing in front of me, whom I assume is Carter Morgan III, looks like the kind of person who would rob Carter Morgan III at gunpoint.
Oh. Hell. Yes. Gimme dirty grimy boys 💖
Sorry, buddy, today was the day and yes this is me. Sorry for the letdown.
Why is my own heart breaking? I’m not even a page into this thing. 😭
I follow him, and make a mental note to check his name against police reports.
I thought you weren’t picky.
“You want some soup or something? No offense, but you look like a corpse.” “Full offense, but you look like someone who deals weed to middle schoolers.”
I love them already. Let me keep them forever.
Carter Morgan is a fucking weirdo, that much is clear.
Yeah but he’s going to be YOUR weirdo! *squeeeee!*
I wonder if he did that on purpose—modeled his aesthetic around what people expect him not to be.
Yeah. Probably.
South Carolina
As far from Washington as humanly possible but the SC should’ve been a hint.
It makes me feel faintly ill, being slapped with so much blatant love.
Oh you poor thing. Zeke will love you just give him a minute.
I wonder if he’d think I was lovely if he knew I’d once set my uncle’s house on fire.
Oh shit. I need to hear more about this. (But yes. The answer is yes)
I try to make out the titles of the books. I don’t recognize anything except for The Hobbit, which is probably embarrassing.
You take that back.
I give him a solid week before he starts avoiding me.
You’ve never met a poor person have you? We get really attached really fast and we don’t let anything we get go. We’re hoarders. That includes people.
I cannot imagine liking another person so much that I would do any of those things in public.
If you don’t sit on Carter’s lap at a game, I’ll cry.
Would Carter want to go see a movie? Grab dinner? What do hockey boys do on a Friday night?
Dinner and a movie? Please please please suggest this to his face.
“Mini golf!”
You only know how to go on dates?
That is the closest I’ve ever heard Carter Morgan come to making a joke and it feels better than a hole-in-one ever could.
You’re in love already 😍
He’s got a nice smile, and hands it out freely—smiling at the kids we pass and greeting the people working at the course.
He reminds me of me. Projecting? Sure. But he really does.
“You’re holding your club wrong.”
P L E A S E please correct him all nice and close.
If I were hitting on him, I would have done this from behind:
Oh fuck you Carter 🙄
I snatch the card back and shove it into my pocket.
Do you hoard mementos too?!
if I have to buy that privilege, so be it.
You don’t have to though bb. You’ve been living with him for weeks. You haven’t noticed you don’t have to try to be anything you’re not? He’s a good guy.
Yes. I bite my tongue, before I can blurt the word out.
What is that all about?
No offense to hockey or anything, but my interest in the sport starts and ends with you.”
Ugh. Just kiss him for that line alone.
“Ohio State is good,”
😂😂😂😂😂 okay JJ. Do a little research. None of Ohios teams are good and ESPECIALLY not hockey.
He smiles.
HE CAN SMILE?!
funds. I want to tell him that he doesn’t have to pay my way to get me to hang out with him—I’d
Please say that. It’ll help so much. I have a feeling this will be the communication issue later.
“Why do you live with your grandma?”
He doesn’t. He lives with you, silly.
Good luck tomorrow, kid. I’ll be watching, so you’d better win.
ew. Fuck the actual fuck off. This is such a dad text. I hate it.
But it’s not every day that people get text messages from their heroes.
Okay. Never mind. Not a threat then. I misjudged. It’s just I think every single book I’ve read in the last two years (except we could be so good) the rich one’s dad is an absolute prick.
I’m hungry enough to eat Zeke at this point
He might let you if you ask politely.
“Want me to read some to you?”
This is 100% my favorite trope and I will die on this hill. It doesn’t happen enough at all and I am obsessed with it. Let the smart one read to the one that has a harder time in every book please and thank you.
He’d probably be shy, uncertain where to touch and when.
I bet it’s supernatural rules. He’s totally Sam and you’re dean. Don’t let the nerdy, sweet guy fool you. He’s an entire tiger.
“I think I might love you,”
Oh he’s so serious, zeke!!!
I let us inside after using my special knock, calling out for Grandma and hearing her in the kitchen.
This is going to sound weird but the only big events I can see is grandma dying and a fight about money. I kind of hope grandma does kick it. It would be interesting to see how Carter helps him through it.
I’ve never gone without anything in my life.”
Umm excuse me sir. What about love? Support? Like emotional support not financial? Or idk like… ‘you did good sport’? A family?
heady,
Okay Mulder. Give Zeke some new adjectives.
I lean forward, wincing, and clench my fingers into the bedspread.
Ope. Just going right into it huh?
His hands are clenched on his knees, knuckles white.
Can I have a dollar for every white knuckle in this book please, Mx. Mulder?
The strength of my sudden attraction to him worries me;
Okay buddy let’s not lie to yourself. You’ve been thinking about him since at least week three if not before so… it’s not sudden. It’s been happening.
It’s the only thing from the evening that doesn’t hurt.
It’s the only thing from this chapter that doesn’t hurt. 😢
Say hi to Tony for me,”
What does this mean? Who is Tony? Tony Danza? Please be Tony Danza.
“This is Tony. Well, Anthony Lawson, but I call him Tony.
Damn it. Not tony danza.
A therapist would probably have a few things to say about me creating imaginary friendships,
So many.
“What are we reading, tonight?”
IM C R Y I N G
trying to keep from getting a hard-on.
Okay well that’s just insanely unrealistic let’s be honest.
he looks over and smiles. It’s the same smile I saw in the picture he showed me with Anthony Lawson, but the first time I’ve seen it in real life.
So you have to know something is up! Guys! Use your words! All of them. Concisely.
Closing the door silently behind me, I put my back to the wall and slide to a seated position on the floor.
I’m sobbing not irl but inside you know?
review mirror
Oh my god. Is this real life? Review mirror 😂😂😂😂😂
My best friend transferred here to play baseball, actually. That’s why I came.
That’s quite a friend you have there buddy. Book two I presume?
“No,” he says, but doesn’t explain how he did get hit there.
S I R?!?! how?
