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But something in him pushed all my buttons, both good and bad.
Alden’s brown eyes sparkled, like sun shining through honey.
“Nothing. You’re cute when you win, that’s all.
giggling and kicking my feet aaahhh
The way I figured it, Alden was cute, true facts, and he probably hadn’t heard that very often in his life, which was a damn shame.
Crying
“Haven’t we been squashed together enough?” Not nearly enough. I tried to push that thought away.
This was probably how Conrad acted with all his friends. No way could I let him know how this was affecting me.
Hes just like me fr
“There isn’t one,” Alden said firmly.
PURRRR
“I don’t mind that. I’m…glad you told me. But you’re tired and upset and confused, and I’m…convenient. I don’t want to be convenient.”
Conrad liked me, improbable as that was, and he wanted to kiss me.
Me vibes
“See that’s why I l—like you.
SCREAMINGGGG
I get that being literal can be a challenge, but sometimes I like how simple you make things.”
When he's an ally to neurodivergent people <3
Luckily, I’ve never been that good at subtlety.”
This banter is giving peeta mellark
“I don’t like being dependent.
Slay avoidant attachment style
smelling like hotel soap and sex.
Mega slay
“Yes, and as soon as we’re not, I’m going do that to you until you stop worrying about stupid stuff.”
ZKSJHCDUGCDHFV
But I didn’t want a good game, just one that got me out of this store and back to Alden with what little time we had left before MOC West ruined everything.
Ok romeo and juliet dupe
But that day, Conrad played with all the insight of a garden gnome.
Creative roast i wanna use that on someone
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.
SOBBINGGGGG *crying emoji*
I might not be the best at reading people in general, but I knew him by now, knew how distant and deceptively casual his voice got when he lied, how he refused to make eye contact, and how he fiddled with his cards when he was nervous.
The way he notices the little things has me giggling and swinging my feet and crying
“We’re a couple?”
Oop
And, man, I wanted that future more than I’d ever wanted anything, and that scared me, making me shiver despite the desert heat, and wonder what the heck I’d gotten myself into.
Avoidant attachment style double slay
“Stop thinking,” Conrad ordered once we were out on the sidewalk. “Who said I’m thinking?” “I can feel you thinking. Stop it. Just have fun with me.” He grabbed my hand. “Please?”
THIS IS SO WOLFSTAR CODED I CANTTTTT (its giving a wolf's heart chapter 7 to be specific)
Hanging out with you…that’s the fun part.”
WHEN IS IT MY TURN
“Dork.”
Can we talk about the fact that dork is literally such a cute insult like if someone calls me a dork i think i would fall in love with them why is that word so flirty
I was plenty drunk on Conrad’s company.
me when i’m delusional and obsessive
What if he didn’t want to share, and I looked needy for assuming? What if— “Oh, hey, a spare bed.” Conrad tumbled me onto the closest one, landing squarely on top of me. “When we ruin this set of sheets, we can move to that other one.”
IM ACTUALLY SOBBING AND RIPPING MY HAIR OUTTTTT AJHDDKAKBDNMKAJSV 😭😭😭😭😭
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.
This was my…well, my guy, if nothing else.
Cute
Did you score anything worth keeping?” His face went soft, more tender than I’d ever seen it. “Maybe,” he whispered, and I knew from the gravity in his tone that he didn’t mean the cards, so I kissed him again, long and slow and sweet. I tried to use my mouth to tell him that he wasn’t the only one who felt that way. Maybe we’d both already won.
Im gonna start crying fr like
How was the trip, indeed. Awesome. Life-altering. Exhausting. Emotionally draining. Sexy as hell. Special. All the adjectives in the world crammed into my brain, but none made it to my tongue. “It was okay.”
ME LMFAO
He adjusted his bag so he could take my hand. It was the first time he’d initiated anything in public, and my heart revved like a Harley at a stoplight. I didn’t care who saw. This was my guy, and I wasn’t letting go, not until I had to.
I cant handle thissss *crying emoji*
However, after he finished eating, Conrad had stretched out, head in my lap, long legs sprawling, apparently not caring who saw him adopt me as his human pillow. He looked content enough to drift off, face slack, and my heart seemed to swell with each breath. He was right where I wanted him.
I dont know how to describe how im feeling aside from the crying emoji
That was my guy, making the deft moves, destroying Arresting Aaron’s scrolls, matching the fast pace easily, and jumping out to an early lead that led to a comfortable win.
Every time one of them calls the other "my guy" i start fan girling and kicking my feet it's so cute i can't
I couldn’t help glancing down, but I instantly regretted the impulse because what I saw there made every muscle in my body stiffen, panic gathering low in my gut. No. No. No.
STOP IM GONNA SCREAM
“Missed you too.” “Good.”
dawn still came.
But before I could tell him any of that, he did the worst thing he could. He walked away.
All you had to do was stay by taylor swift
Their love had been conditional, and that was no love at all.
Maybe it wasn’t love that hurt. It wasn’t love that screwed me over. Real love didn’t have conditions and limitations. People had failed me, let me down, hurt me. But not everyone was like that. Hadn’t Alden shown me compassion over and over? Was what we felt for each other the real deal?
This is so begin again by Taylor swift
Losing to him had been more fun than winning ever was.
“You weren’t.” I had to agree from a purely factual level.
King behaviour purr
“Oh, just come off it and fuck me already, Con.”
Same
“Here’s to another adventure,” he said as the light turned green, and I knew, deep inside, in that place where my most secret desires lived, that I would follow this guy anywhere.
I made sure we didn’t drown, and he made sure we actually got in the water and had fun.
