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dad’s ceding full control of christmas to me like the magic, the title, all of it
You’ve got this boo boo
Coal whirls on him. “What’d you do? Where’d she go?” Hex studies Coal’s growing alarm. “It was created with Halloween’s magic. It wasn’t real, Coal. It was magic.” “Don’t talk about our baby that way, sweetheart.” Hex’s eyes bulge. “Our what?” “I was already thinking of names.” Hex massages his temple with a long-suffering sigh. “Again, it was not a real cat.” “You killed our child. So heartlessly. I’m not sure I like this side of you.”
I will never not love the banter between Coal & Hex
I hate tipsy me for being a food whore.
Same except I’m always sober. 😂
“You’re all I’ve been able to think about for weeks. The only thought in my head is what your face will look like when I take you apart—like this, like this right now, you’re perfect.”
I know that his kiss tasted like all the dreams I waxed on about in the writing I don’t do anymore, the words I wove while trying to imagine Iris but all I imagined was a fantasy, an ending. He tasted like those fantasies. He felt like those endings. It’s him.
I would never dare part you from your emotional support boyfriend. Of course, bring him.
Emotional support boyfriend. 💀 gimme me one
COAL have you seen me, i am a badass, no data points needed Aw, he’s a sweet kid. Let’s keep him. IRIS maybe if we give him a stable home we can train the delusions out of him COAL why do these text chats always end with you two ganging up on me
BANTER BANTER BANTER. Impeccable banter.
I NEED TO STOP HAVING REVELATIONS ABOUT MYSELF AROUND LOCHLANN PATRICK.
Oh bby 🥺
It yanked me out of a half-life I’d been living. If I don’t kiss you again I feel like every nerve in my body will wither away. That single kiss was more transformative, more vast, more excruciatingly important than anything that’s ever happened to me and you’re the most noble, caring person I’ve ever met, and it breaks my heart that you don’t see that what you’re doing is so spectacular.
Say it out loud bby! 🥺
“You aren’t an awakening,” I whisper. “You’re the whole dawn. And I can’t believe I ever thought I’d seen the sun before you.”
Beautiful. 🥹
I told you, Kris; I’m na ready to share you with anyone yet. And that includes washing my marks off you.”
“I need to touch you, Kris,” he begs.
Aw bby 🥺
“Could you do me a favor,” I moan, “and be like a little repulsive in some area? Just one. I don’t even care what it is. I need you to not be so inhumanly attractive.”
Dare I say… DOWN BAD.
“I don’t know what your problem is—maybe you don’t deserve me, which is insane; but I sure as hell don’t deserve you, either. So be unworthy with me, in this moment, right now. We’re here. We have all day. I showed you part of my soul and we’re next to a bed. So kiss me, you idiot, and be with me.”
They’re beautifully broken together and I freaking love them.
“Did you—” I gape at him. “Did you smack my ass?” His eyes sparkle. “Lightly.” “Lightly?” “To get you to hurry your arse up.”
Once again… immaculate banter
Word by word. It’s too big to think of anything else. But I want his forever. I want it and I love him and I’m a goddamn moron.
“Oh do not address me like that, you son of a bitch, not like we’re friends.” Coal marches up to him and Loch takes a step back, hands up, and god, if Coal had a single violent bone in his body, I think he might hit Loch. “Get out of my palace before I freeze your ass into a snowman.”
The way I love this boy. Get him, Coal.
“I do na expect you to get over what I kept from you, what I did. I do na deserve you to. But I am sorry, Kris, and you do deserve that. An apology. And you deserve to know that I will never forgive myself. I’m someone who hurt you and I’m despairingly in love with you and I canna bear to be both those things at once.”
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
“If I had to choose again,” Hex cuts me off, “no matter the repercussions, no matter the situation, no matter what was at risk for Halloween, I’d choose Coal. I’d choose my own happiness.”
Yeah, Coal and Hex are still my favs.
“My Holiday survived before me. It will survive after me. But I know now that I will not survive without him. So I’d choose him, and myself. Even if it makes no sense. Even if it hurts.”
Hex you sensitive little prince. 🥹
“Do not regret choosing yourself,” he tells me. “No matter what outcome is unfolding now—Coal is glad you did. We all are.”
I’m in love with Loch. And I can’t believe I thought loving him would be enough.
