“I’m honestly shocked that you came back. Shocked, and very, very glad. I didn’t think you ever would.” It feels like someone’s grabbed hold of my heart and pulled. Cyrus, who blamed himself for not recognizing a bad situation when he was in the thick of it, and then trained himself to assume the worst of every situation. Cyrus, who thinks that everything he touches will burn and fade to embers, who thinks that everyone is destined to leave him in the end. Cyrus, who always rejects people before they have the chance to reject him, who’s afraid to be happy for fear of the day the happiness is
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