I had something, someone, that made it worth sticking around, despite all those bad things. I fell head over heels for Kade Mitchell. My best friend’s brother. The guy who teased me whenever I was near him, who made my nerves shatter in both good and bad ways. He made me smile when I was sad, laugh when I felt like crying and warm when I felt so cold. He reminded me of what it felt like to be alive. The butterflies have never vanished. They’ve been there since he called me “Freckles” for the first time and stared into my soul like he wanted to fix me. Like he could see the fractures – the
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