The Favorites

by Layne Fargo

I felt like a celebrity couple.

????

“Of course I’m attracted to Garrett. He’s attractive.”

Thats not how youre supposwd to answer you dummy

When we got to the kiss and cry, the diamond was still gripped in my hand. Heath had to pry my fist open to slip it onto my finger.

Red flag

“You don’t want kids?” Heath said. I laughed. The wrong response, but I couldn’t believe that had been his takeaway from our train wreck of a TV appearance. “You do want kids?” I asked.

This wouldve been a great thing to talk about before GETTING ENGAGED

I hadn’t thought we needed to discuss it. Heath knew me better than anyone, so he should have known there wasn’t a single maternal thing about me.

Girlie he couldnt have known that if you havent TALKED ABOUT IT

You’re not my family, Lee. You’re nothing to me. I used to wish you’d died instead of our father, but now I’m glad he’s not alive to see you like this.

Wow thats low and awful to say to someone who is your blood relative

“Of course you didn’t mean to, Kat. That would require thinking about someone other than yourself for one goddamn second.”

Pop off garrett

I needn’t have worried. Heath didn’t notice me, and he sat in the front. Right beside Bella.

Oof thats brutal....

If I didn’t know her better, I would have thought she was sneaking around with some secret lover.

She’s pregnant with heaths baby

If we wanted happiness, we had to create it ourselves. Not in one shining moment on a medal stand, but every single day, over and over again.

Jane Currer: Ms. Shaw was given every opportunity to provide a reasonable explanation for what happened in Sochi. She did not avail herself of those opportunities.

She most certainly did bitch

Francesca Gaskell: I’m an Olympic champion. I’m a philanthropist. I’m a good person.

if youre a good person you wouldnt be justifying it

Call me a bitch, a cheater, a loser, a whore. I may not have an Olympic gold medal, but I have something better: a life where I spend every day with my favorite people in the world, doing exactly what I love. If that’s not winning, I don’t know what is.