Conventionally Yours (True Colors, #1)
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Read between June 25 - July 12, 2022
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Conrad’s laugh was as attractive as the rest of him,
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Yes, I felt like I was missing out on something, and yes, I wished he’d chosen me,
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“You being gay is not a problem to fix, medically or otherwise.” Alden’s indignant tone soothed places inside me that I hadn’t even realized were still raw.
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I made a mental note to try to feed him more.
porscha
awww that's actually so cute
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His shy smile widened into a genuine grin, a rare joke from him, and it was sort of like seeing a rainbow after a hard thunderstorm, the way the smile transformed his usually stoic expression. He had a dimple, which I couldn’t recall noticing before, and smiling made his brown eyes flicker with gold.
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Part of me apparently didn’t like the thought of Conrad having a crush on someone, even some race car driver I’d surely never heard of.
porscha
:(
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I was going to throw something. Possibly Blake.
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LMAOO
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Life has a way of screwing people over regardless, so you might as well find fun where you can.”
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I didn’t like the pain in his voice and wanted to smash whomever had put it there.
porscha
oh babes
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There was something about doing things for him that I found deeply satisfying—like
porscha
aw he's definitely gonna spoil him
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It had been so easy to feel like damaged goods the past year,
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the only thing I was hungry for was something I shouldn’t want and couldn’t have.
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grabbing my hand
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Didn’t want to have to miss him along with everything else.
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Conrad was going to kiss me, and I was going to let him.
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YES YES YESSS!!!
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I wanted to promise him that I wouldn’t let him down, that I’d be different, that I’d be the one who stuck around. But I wasn’t sure I could keep that promise,
porscha
no, keep that promise right now !!
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wanted to know exactly how to make him happy in a multitude of different ways.
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wanted to be someone worthy of a guy like Alden, and maybe a part of me wanted to impress him as well.
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buddy he already loves you for you
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For the first time, maybe ever, I had something I liked more than Odyssey. Him. Us. The private moments we’d shared. And I’d take losing if it meant getting closer later.
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“When we ruin this set of sheets, we can move to that other one.”
porscha
OH
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I loved the moments before sleep when we curled around each other, drowsy confessions and wordless cuddles, like floating away on a cloud of good feelings, sweet emotions tucked all around us like quilts. In those moments, I was invincible and happier than I’d been in years.
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and I knew from the gravity in his tone that he didn’t mean the cards,
porscha
stopppp that's so cute !!
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I might not know much, but I knew that whatever came next for me would be my own idea, my own direction.
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yess !!
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He needs it.
porscha
why are we acting like sharing the money isn't an option ?