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“Er… darling?” Mum put in. “We can’t just go around picking up the staff and plonking them onto furniture on a whim.
“I’m not okay. My life is a total shitshow, and I have no idea how to claw my way out.”
“I was worried that she broke you a little bit.”
“Can we please have this conversation in an upright position without you kissing me? I-I can’t think when you—”
Deep down, it was the ingrained knowledge that the likes of him were not for the likes of me.
“I had to,”
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“You’ve been let down so many times, and I’m just another fuckwit in a long line of fuckwits to do it to you again.”
I know first-hand what happens when people like me don’t blend in, when we aren’t easy.
“For the moment, I’ll settle for no more talk about this being temporary – apparently, it makes me a little ragey.”
Ollie said I could trust him – I had to learn to trust somebody. And he’d promised.
“My family are none of your fucking business.”
“Please come home. I love you. I—”
You did a shite job Of showing it. I wouldn't have given you the time of day. pretty sure that was your 3rd ,4 th strike
“It’s meaningless now. You only love me if it serves your purposes – if I’m helping your family, if I keep my unpopular opinions to myself. Your love is conditional.
“everyone has a right not to be scared”.
Because that was family. You wound them up, you drove them crazy, but, above all, you loved them.
