After (After, #1)

by Anna Todd

For someone who tries too hard to stand out and be different, you sure are judgmental about people who are different from you!”

I have become a rabbit in a fox’s trap.

It’s strange to crave and hate someone at the same time.

This is what he does: he hurts everyone near him and he gets a kick out of the chaos that comes out of that.

“You can’t end something that never began.”

He uses my curiosity against me, like it’s all a game to him.

I want you to think I am worthy of you; I want you to want me the way I do you. I want to fight with you, even scream at each other until one of us admits we are wrong. I want to make you laugh, and listen to you ramble about classic novels.

You’re wrong; you took my kindness for weakness and you were sadly mistaken.”

I wish this ache in my chest would go away. Instead of shrinking, it seems to get larger every moment of every day.

That’s who you are; that’s what you do. You find people’s weakness and you exploit it. You use it to your advantage.

It wasn’t until I realized I loved you that I saw how different love was from what I thought it was.

I know I should be saying something, anything, but I can’t find my voice.

The sun rises, then the moon, then the sun… days are endless and finite at once,” I say honestly.