The Snowball Effect

by Haley Cass

“I mean, adult-identified ADHD. But I don’t really like to look at it as something that’s wrong with me.”

Regan was fairly certain right then and there that they were not destined to be friends.

Oh shit stuff finna go down 🤭

“The air conditioning shut off, obviously. I was laying on the kitchen floor with ice packs all over my body.”

I'm already weak asf and i'm only 4 pages in

“You wouldn’t go down without getting in some licks, I’m sure.”

I'm weak asf

“I just – we’ve known each other for two years! How did I not know this information?” “Probably because you know very little about me,” she succinctly summed up. “And whose fault is that?” Regan needled, tapping her finger insistently on Emma’s shoulder.

Help i love them sm

tilting her

head in thought.

I know that look anywhere... ;)

“Oh my god.” Emma’s words came out on a whine as she fell back onto her mattress, bringing her hands up to cover her face. “I’m going to choose to believe that there’s not a fire out there, right? Please tell me you aren’t keeping us in here because of a fire.”

Oh my God idk how to describe it but I literally love them

Regan held up her hand. “No, no, the story isn’t over. This part is really interesting: imagine my even bigger surprise when your mom tells me that you and I are in a relationship!” There. Satisfied, she crossed her arms and nodded at Emma. “Now it’s your turn.” Emma didn’t immediately launch into her usual commentary, however. Instead, her jaw went slack as those blue eyes

widened even more. When she did speak, she didn’t explain. She offered a murmur of, “Jesus fucking Christ.” “Did I miss somewhere in that contract that we’re apparently dating?”

Help I love Regan so much

“Regan, will you do me a favor and simply not disagree with the notion that we’re dating while my mom is here?”

And that's how I fell in love with your mother (inserts laughing emoji)

“It’s not for me,” Regan informed her, lightly stroking her thumb over Emma’s as she shook her hand. “But, in what I’m sure is the worst part for you, it’s a situation in which you need me.”

“Believe it or not, that’s actually not the worst part for me right now. So don’t flatter yourself.”

“I’ll do my very best not to flatter myself. But I do have to say that I’m sure your mom might be wondering what we’re getting up to in our bedroom, since we’re taking so much time.”

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“She probably thinks you’re having your way with me this morning. Or, I guess, that I’m having my way with you. Since I came to wake you up and all.”

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“It was kinda fun,” she admitted. “I love being on the inside of a good secret. A little scheme.”

“You need to be with someone who treats you well,” her

She hadn’t understood at that moment that there would be any ramifications. She hadn’t realized that one dumb little lie-by-omission could have such a snowball effect.

Title drop!!

“But you never try with me. You never give me the benefit of the doubt or try to see anything from my side. You decided who I was the day we met – over an accident – and that was it.”

“So, congratulations, Emma; you finally get exactly what you’ve wanted since you moved in. I’ll stop texting you, stop trying to hang out with you. You wanted a roommate you barely have to speak to, and you finally got her. Because I am so done trying.”

“I’ve never had a roommate that wanted to spend time with me the way you do,”

“I’ve never really met anyone that seems to want to get to know me the way you do.”

“And I think I’ve dug my heels in even harder with you because I don’t understand why you feel that way, especially when all I’ve done is push you away. So, it makes me feel… uncomfortable. And a little…” “Prickly,”

“Guarded.”

“Looks like we have a real what happens when an unstoppable force meets an unmovable object situation on our hands,”

That they didn’t have to be friends even if they were roommates?

and they were roommates

The reality of Brynn staring between the two of them – the smug expression on her face telling Emma that she continued not to believe they were literally just roommates.

ha she knows

Now that she had, though, it was almost impossible for her to do anything to make Regan give her those big, sad eyes. And, she found that as she stared at Regan’s absurdly optimistic expression, she really had no desire to say no, anyway.

whipped!

“You putting in effort to our friendship doesn’t mean you don’t have opinions; I’m fully aware you have them. And we won’t ever get anywhere if we aren’t being ourselves.”

and I tagged along with Dustin to one of his D&D games, just to see what it was like.”

Stranger Things Reference!!

“This stays between you and me – all of it. Even if you don’t tell me the whole story.”

She didn’t realize what exactly she’d said to make the sweet playfulness drop from Regan’s expression, shifting to something that looked curious.

“Um… yeah,” Regan quietly agreed, still looking intently at Emma.

“A digital book doesn’t come close to capturing the magic of physical one. You will never convince me.”

That's so real tbh

“You look like all of those classic sculptures of women in a museum. Like a piece of art.”