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I stopped believing in Santa when I was nine years old, and I feel like I’m gonna stop believing in my dad one day too. Maybe I already have.
It’s too late for that. Whatever’s happening is just the beginning.
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I’ve learned the virus affects each person differently. I’m not sure why, but I know it does. Some, like the woman roaming the street or Ms. Klein, my patient at the hospital that night, lose all their memories, 20a total brain wipe. About twelve hours after infection, they become a shell of a person, a body with no sense of purpose or belonging. I call them Nomes—stands for no memories.
Gravity forces the urine to flush. Too bad it can’t do the same for what the world has become.
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I’m always worried about the noise. It can attract biters or, worse, the burners. I call them that because all they want to do is see the world burn. They’re the ones I’m scared of.
“Never let someone bigger than you pin you to the ground. The longer you’re pinned, the more strength you give up. Act quickly and violently. Strike their most vulnerable places. Eyes. Nose. Throat. Groin. Give ’em hell, girl.” I will, Dad.
Propping myself up with my elbows, I meet the gaze of the other burner, the one struggling with Nate.
She is so badass
The man I’ve been with for more than two years, who asked me to marry him two and a half months ago, who told me he loved me just a few minutes ago . . . gone in an instant. Fucking great. I knew he wasn’t cut out for an apocalypse.
Fucking fraud lol
I used to hate driving long distances, with only cornfields and flatlands serving as my surroundings. It was boring, but now boring is a luxury, and I love every minute of it.
It’s calming, and it’s the first time I’ve felt calm in a very long time, even before the world ended.
home is exactly where I’m headed. Turns out it only took an apocalypse to bring me back.
“I’m not sharing a room with him. He should be dead.”
Lmfao
Going through a breakup and then the world ending . . . that couldn’t have been easy.”
“He either picked it up on the way, or he’s a master of hiding long hard things down his pants.”
Lol
“We hooked up one time, okay?” He drops his head in his hands. “How was I supposed to know the world was gonna end the next day?”
Lol
Anyone can kill. It’s about making sure everyone comes home safe.”
It was always about preparing for the end of the world, and there was never time to just live in it.
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“If you’re so effective, Casey, then why is Chris dead?” he says, cocking his head.
Blake is on my shit list
“The point is to grow into tomorrow, not dwell on today.”
Funerals are for the living because the dead don’t give a damn.
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When it comes to keeping people safe, we don’t cut corners.”
“They’re kind of like you in a way,” I said. “First you were sour. Now you’re sweet.” He grinned momentarily before it tapered, his face turning serious. “I’m sorry about the sour part,” he said. I smiled and waved it off. “Without the sour, the sweet wouldn’t be as satisfying.”
I adore them
I raise my hand and swing, cracking him right across the face. Surprisingly, it fails to pull him out of his shocked state. I need to get him to snap out of this. My hands fly to the back of his neck, and I pull him into me. Standing on my tippy-toes, I close my eyes and press my lips to his, passionately moving them, kissing him to hopefully bring him back to me.
So chaotic i love it
I’ve never seen him scared before, and for some reason, all I want to do is be the one who makes him fearless.
“That’s why I didn’t want to believe you. Because believing you meant that I was a coward and selfish and evil in a way I couldn’t bear to deal with. It meant that at the slightest inkling of danger, I only cared about me.
Blakeeeeeeee
“You don’t have to be proud of what you did. But you do have to give yourself grace. There’s no changing what happened, so you just need to be okay with it.”
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“It’s you.”
“Molly Ronan, will you be my forever-night stand?”
Lol
“I get you want to apologize, but let’s not rewrite history.” “I’m not rewriting it, Casey. I’m telling you the side you never knew about.”
I believe what he’s saying, but I hate him for making me love him, and I hate him even more for making me hate him.
If I were on the outside looking in, I would. It would be easy to rationalize his actions with his circumstances, to see and understand exactly how it all played out. But I’m not on the outside. I’m in here with him.
“It’s the one thing I wish I would have failed at,”
“Are you still my monster?” A small grin starts to grow at the edges of his mouth, barely curling his lips, not even lifting his cheeks high enough to squeeze against his eyes. “Always,” he says.
!!!!!!!!!
Once the source of my torment, Blake swings violently from the man who once ruined me to the man I now want to ruin me.
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“Let’s get you all the way there then,” he says, burying his face into my center. The pleasure is immediate, rocking through my entire body. Every nerve is firing on all cylinders.
Oh fuck, I don’t think I could ever hate Blake again after this, no matter what he did.
“So, do you like me?” I grab him, pulling him up to me. “You know I do,” I say. “Now make me love you.”
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Right now, it doesn’t feel like the world ended, because mine is lying in my arms.
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“There’s someone here to see you, and he says he’s your fiancé.”
Tge way i threw myself on thefloor!!
The boy I was able to find something amazing in all those years ago finally came back to me, and it only took the world ending for it to happen.
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Two years versus a few hours . . . that’s what I keep reminding myself. Time. Because that’s what matters. It’s all we have until we don’t have it anymore. Blake had all the time in the world to be with me. He just waited until the world ended, and even then, it was only because he had no other choice. Nate chose me, whereas Blake chose me after every other choice was made for him.
“Without you, my world ends.” “The world already ended, Blake.” “Only for a little bit, until you came back into it.”
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“It just might be. But I can’t watch you love someone else. It’d be like watching the world end all over again, and I don’t think I’d survive a second doomsday,”
My hand instinctively slips into my holster as I find one of my throwing stars and send it flying through the air, right into Nate’s shoulder. “Ackk!”
yes!!
“You’re right, Nate. I am a cunt.” I’ve never understood why that word was ever considered an insult. To me, it’s a compliment. It’s one of the strongest organs there is. It creates life, it makes men stupid, and it bleeds every month—yet it doesn’t die.
“Looks like we both killed our boyfriends,”
A lineage lying upon the earth, the only place it will ever exist again, erased in seconds.
Im so sad
That’s exactly what I’m going to give these burners . . . their very own doomsday.
Jesus, he’s like a super-sadistic Batman.
“I just wanted you to realize that even when it feels like the world has ended, yours doesn’t have to.”
