The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

by Abby Jimenez

Haven’t you seen those ASPCA commercials? With the sad dogs in cages? And the Sarah McLachlan song?”

Sometimes the hardest place to live is the one in-between.

His unrelenting flirting was going to give me a heart attack.

Goddamn, this woman had me. It was more than just physical. She fucking had me. I didn’t even want to leave. I felt like scratching on her door like a dog wanting to be let in.

We won’t know each other anymore, and we’ll both be lonely, even though we’re together.”

I was supposed to marry this woman. I’d known it the moment I thought I might lose her. She was it for me. The thought of being without her was as unacceptable to me as never seeing daylight again, never picking up another guitar.

Why I could trust him, always, no matter what came up. He belonged to me and we were in it together. How could I ever question it? We were in love.

You can’t control the bad things that happen to you. All you can do is decide how much of you you’re going to let them take.

“Someone smart once told me you can start over again. Start now.”

“You think you know what love looks like. You think the fairy tales and the romantic movies prepare you. And then you finally, really truly find it and you realize you never knew a thing about it until her.” He shook his head. “She was every love song I’ve never been good enough to write.”