Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating

by Christina Lauren

when I meet someone I love, I become an octopus and wind my tentacles around their heart, tighter and tighter until they can’t deny they love me just the same.

Relatable

learned a very important thing that day: my mom would never try to change for a man, and I wouldn’t, either.

“I tend to get too excited, I realize that, and I say all the wrong things. I have zero chill.

Me

“You’re my person,” she says. “Thanks for sticking up for me tonight.” She gives these vulnerable words so freely it makes fondness clench at something in my chest. Taking her hand, I bring it to my mouth and press a quick kiss to the backs of her knuckles. “I like being your person.”